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Aida Takla-O’Reilly, the Egyptian journalist who was president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association twice and was its longest-serving member, died Sunday in Los Angeles. The HFPA did not disclose her age or cause of death.
Takla-O’Reilly joined the group behind the Golden Globes in 1956 and was elected as its president in 1994. She would serve another two-year term in the office from 2011-13. She covered the entertainment industry for Egyptian magazine Nisf El Dunia and daily newspaper El Ahram.
“She was a great listener, never judged, and always fought for the underdog,” said HFPA President Helen Hoehne, who was sponsored by Takla-O’Reilly when she applied to join the organization and maintained a special bond with her. “She was fearless and inspired others to be fearless – and to become leaders. She had a fierce and deep loyalty to her friends and the people she loved.”
Born in Cairo, she became Egypt’s youngest female commercial pilot at 16 and went on toe earn a master’s degree at UCLA and a doctorate from Sorbonne University in Paris. Takla-O’Reilly was chair of the Pan-African Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles, fro 1976-79 and again from 1989-98. During her CSULA tenure, she taught and developed courses in literature, journalism and film studies.
She received the Women of Vision in Film Award in 2001.
In 2018, Takla-O’Reilly authored a controversial celebrity profile for Egypt Air’s in-flight magazine about then-Santa Clarita Diet star Drew Barrymore. With mistakes of grammar and fact, the acrticle went viral because of its unintentional humor and seeming lost-in-translation style. Takla-O’Reilly defended the story in a series of tweets, and the HFPA said days later: “Based on our
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