An elite group of political, social, cultural, sports and creative figures performed their duty of condolences and sympathy as they participated in the condolence council held Thursday in the capital, Aden, for the deceased of the southern press, Nabil Muhammad Muqbil, led by Professors Salem Thabet Al-Awlaki, Chairman of the National Southern Media Authority and the official spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council, Saeed. Muhammad Saadan, Chairman of the Council’s Institutional Development Authority, Aidroos Bahashwan, Head of the Southern Journalists and Media Syndicate, and in the presence of Dr. Abdullah Al-Haw, Head of the Media and Political Training Sector of the Council’s Training and Qualification Authority, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Al-Naqeeb, Official Spokesman for the Southern Forces, Head of the Military Media Center, Dr. Wahib Baaziban, Dean of the Faculty of Mass Communication at the University of Aden, Nasr Bagharib, Deputy Secretary-General of the Southern Journalists Syndicate, Najib Saeed Thabet, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information and Culture, Mohamed Saeed Salem, Undersecretary of the capital, Aden, and media figures Salah Al-Saqladi, Fadl Mubarak, and Al-Hamid Awad Al-Hamid, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the (14) Foundation. October) and a number of other political, social, sports and creative figures, media professionals, journalists, and colleagues of the deceased in the newspaper and the institution.

The mourners were received by the brothers of the deceased, Najib Mokbel, Rapporteur of the National Southern Media Authority, Fouad Mokbel, Director General of the Jameel Ghanem Institute of Fine Arts, and Muhammad Nabil Mokbel, son of the deceased, and a number of his family.

The mourners expressed their sincere condolences on the passing of the artistic figure in the newspaper and the (14 October) Foundation for Press, Printing and Publishing, the late Nabil Muhammad Muqbel, chief director and general director of the press production department and the former technical office in the institution, expressing their sincere condolences and sympathy to the family of the deceased in this great loss of one. One of the most competent technical cadres who contributed effectively to the development of journalistic and artistic work in the official and private newspapers of the capital, Aden.

For his part, the journalist Najeeb Moqbel, on behalf of the family of the deceased, expressed his feelings of gratitude and appreciation to the mourners present at the funeral council and to everyone who communicated by direct communication or writing with condolences and consolations in this great affliction, praying to Almighty God to cover the deceased with His vast mercy and forgiveness.

It is worth noting that the deceased Nabil Moqbel was the first journalist director in the country who worked to bring about a qualitative shift in the journalistic and artistic production of the newspaper (October 14) by moving it from the traditional stage of manual production to artistic innovation through electronic production at the end of the nineties of the last century, and that was the beginning of a phase New in the history of Adenian journalism.

A generation of young journalistic directors was also taught by the late Nabil Moqbel, who took the cornerstone of modern artistic directing and the method of electronic correspondence in journalistic editing. He, along with a group of technical staff in the institution, took it upon himself to complete the initial stage of artistic and editorial development using the electronic correspondence network in Editing and journalistic production, which culminated in color printing in 2012 after purchasing the modern Al-Jos press printing press.