After his graduation from Georgetown in 1938, Amin served as editor-in-chief of Akher Saa for a year before moving to Al-Ahram ("The Pyramids"), the oldest and most prestigious Egyptian daily newspaper.
During the 1940s, Amin served as a reporter and columnist, but in 1944 left his post as editor of El-Ethnin W El-Donya ("Monday And The World"), when he and his brother Ali founded the weekly newspaper Akhbar el-Yom ("News Today").
[4] Amin and his brother were producing the five best selling news publications in Egypt prior to the nationalization of the Egyptian press by Nasser in 1960.
After a secret trial, he was imprisoned, tortured, and kept in solitary confinement for the next nine years, before eventually being exonerated and released in 1974 by Anwar Sadat.
[6] He founded the charity Lailat al-Qadar ("Night Of The Fate"),[4] raising millions of pounds from donations, to pay medical expenses and provide business assistance for the poor.