 During that time, he also wrote an article for the low-budget Tanta newspaper "Al Ikhlas", criticizing King Farouk for spending one million pounds from the treasury to purchase a yacht called the "Mahrousa".He was fired soon after, but had since grown fond of journalism.Due to this new interest and his father's increasingly poor health, Qandil did not complete the first stage of his medical studies, causing his 1952 application to medical school to be rejected.