Abdel Latif Fouad El-menawy "عبد اللطيف المناوي" is an author, columnist, and multimedia journalist who covered war zones and conflicts around the world.
He wrote the book as an eyewitness to events happened during the 18 days before the stepdown of Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
MEMCS is a research center that works mainly in Egypt to follow political, economic and cultural issues around the country.
Through his professional career in journalism, Abdel Latif El Menawy covered Bosnia during the war in 1994.
Radio Misr mixed news with songs in a bid to increase listening ratings which made it very popular especially during the events of the 25th of January.
[3] El-menawy was the head of the Egypt News Center until March 2011, when he submitted his resignation[4] to Egypt's interim government following protests by hundreds of members of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union who claimed he had misled the public in reporting on the January 25 Revolution.
El menawy extended coverage of political, economic and social events in the country to most of Egypt's governorates.
El menawy introduced feature reporting in a way to address such problems in society in a bid to avoid government censorship.
He also wrote “Raise the Ceiling” and “Unfinished Sentences” which views the Arab, Egyptian current political situation.
During his time as Head of News for Egyptian State Television, he was largely responsible for the content and quality of programming on controversial issues such as anti-government protests, deteriorating economic conditions in the country, and the 2010 parliamentary elections.
[17] A year after the revolution, Abdel Latif El Menawy published a book that was forwarded by journalist and leader writer at the Times Michael Binyon[18] titled "Tahrir: The last 18 days of Mubarak, an insider's account of the uprising in Egypt".