Hawaa

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Hawaa
Categories Women's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherDar Al Hilal
First issue1954;70 years ago (1954)
Country Egypt
Based in Cairo
Language Arabic
Website Hawaa

Hawaa (Arabic: Eve) is a weekly women's magazines published in Cairo, Egypt. The magazine is modelled by other women's magazines in the Arab countries. [1] It was Egypt's first women's magazine, founded in 1954. [2] [3]

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History and profile

Hawaa was first published in 1954. [4] [5] The founder was Amina Al Said, an Egyptian journalist and feminist. [1] [6] The publisher is Dar Al Hilal. [7]

Hawaa is published weekly [8] and features news on health and beauty, family affairs, fashion, [4] adornment and home management using a feminist perspective. [9] In the 1970s it featured short stories written by both Egyptian and Western authors. [10] The magazine targets not only women but also men. [11]

Amina Al Said, its founder, was the first editor-in-chief of the weekly and served in the post from its inception in 1954 to 1969. [6] She was the first female editor-in-chief [1] and the first female chair of a publishing house, namely, Dar Al Hilal, in Egypt. [12] She published a weekly column in Hawaa until her death in 1995. [5]

Iqbal Baraka was the long-term editor-in-chief of the magazine [13] who was appointed to the post in July 1993. [14] On 28 June 2014 Magda Mahmoud became the editor-in-chief of the magazine. [15]

Egyptian intellectual Latifa al-Zayyat was the contributor of Hawaa from 1965 to 1968. [16]

Circulation

Hawaa sold 175,000 copies in 1954. [4] Its circulation was 200,000 copies before 1967 and was about 175,000 copies in the period between 1967 and 1970. [4] The circulation of the magazine in 2000 was 150,000 copies. [8]

The magazine also enjoyed high circulation levels abroad [3] [17] and had the largest foreign circulation in 1989. [18]

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