Media personality Hoda Al-Ajimi passed away at the age of 89.

Death has claimed the media personality and writer Hoda Al-Ajimi, host of the most famous program with young writers, which ran for decades, at the age of 89.

The passing of media personality Hoda Al-Ajimi

The media personality passed away during knee replacement surgery at a hospital. The funeral will be held next Tuesday at the Police Mosque in Sheikh Zayed.

For decades, the late writer presented the most famous radio program for discovering and introducing young literary talents in short stories, poetry, novels, and plays, as well as literary criticism. The program, titled "With Young Writers," is remembered fondly by today's most famous writers.

The late radio broadcaster was born on July 24, 1936 in Port Said. She enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, Arabic Language Department, at Cairo University, and then joined the radio for the first time in the early 1960s.

Books and writings of the late media personality

Al-Ajami has contributed a number of books to the Arab world, including "Egyptian Radio: A Love Story" and "Critical Visions," in addition to the novel "Years of War and Luck."

Al-Ajimi has received numerous awards, including the United Nations Population Fund Award for Best Media Coverage of the Beijing Women's Conference, the Best Radio Program Award in the Radio and Television Director's Survey on Social Programs, a diploma from Radio Cologne in 1985, and the United Nations Fund for Women's Award for Best Radio Coverage of the Beijing Women's Conference in 1995.

Writers' comments on Al-Ajami's passing

The writers’ comments on their Facebook pages were full of love and gratitude for the distinguished media personality, as in the post of the poet Ashraf Qasim, who said, “The honorable Huda Al-Ajimi gave the critic the opportunity to express his vision without interrupting the work of the young writer, nor showing the dictatorship of the program presenters that we see now on television screens and hear on stations.”