Yosri Fouda established Al Jazeera's office in London and was one of the star figures in the channel until he resigned in 2009.
25 Facts About Yosri Fouda
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Yosri Fouda was born in Manshyet Ganzour in Tanta, El Gharbia.
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Yosri Fouda got his bachelor's degree in Mass Communication at Cairo University and was appointed as an Assistant lecturer after his graduation.
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Yosri Fouda pursued his master's degree at the American University in Cairo and graduated in 1992.
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In 1993, Yosri Fouda was granted a scholarship from the British Council to pursue his PhD in documentary at University of Strathclyde and University of Glasgow.
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Yosri Fouda's studies were interrupted after he was approached by the BBC, who were looking for reporters with fluency in Arabic language.
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Yosri Fouda's short lived BBC career spanned between 1994 and 1996.
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Yosri Fouda took part in establishing the BBC Arabic service in 1994, and later served as a roving reporter alongside veteran journalist Martin Bell.
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Yosri Fouda covered the Bosnian independence war, and other important events in the Middle East and Africa.
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Yosri Fouda took part in establishing the Middle East desk at the news agency, as well as, setting up the London-based Arab News Network.
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Yosri Fouda was later appointed as the bureau chief of the London Al Jazeera office.
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Yosri Fouda started his widely popular monthly program Top Secret in 1998.
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Yosri Fouda's program was greatly received by critiques and viewers in the Arab world and won the second place at the 1998 Cairo Radio and Production Festival.
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Yosri Fouda resigned from Aljazeera in 2009, almost two years before the 2011 Egyptian revolution that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.
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Yosri Fouda's resignation was driven by his disagreement with the inter-politics of the news agency, along with his feeling that an important event will soon take place in Egypt.
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Yosri Fouda supported the revolution from day one, and offered an uninterrupted coverage of the Tahrir Square protests.
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Yosri Fouda's show gained massive popularity in Egypt during and after the revolution, and was at the top of TV show ratings.
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Yosri Fouda had interesting thoughts about the post-revolution Egypt, where he stated in an interview with Stephen Sackur that very little had changed in Egypt since the revolution, and that the ex-regime is still around and it should be preserved.
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Yosri Fouda's show constantly criticized Egypt's former military rulers and in October 2011, Fouda suspended his show in protest of what he called the "efforts by the country's military rulers to stifle free expression".
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Yosri Fouda said "This is my way of self-censorship, either to say the truth or to be silent".
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At the start of his episode Yosri Fouda stressed that he stopped his program for three weeks to "prove a stance", and that his allegiance is always to "right and truth".
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In September 2018, Yosri Fouda parted ways with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in controversial circumstances that are now the subject of legal action.
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Yosri Fouda authored and co-authored a collection of three books.
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In 2015, Yosri Fouda authored In Harm's Way: From the Stronghold of al-Qaida to the Heart of ISIL book, it was published by Dar El Shourok in Cairo and is available in Arabic language.
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Yosri Fouda was transported to the Gouna Hospital and his situation was reported to be stable.