The history of magazines in Egypt is long, dating back to the 1890s. [1] The earliest magazines included women's magazines [1] as well as those published in Turkish from 1828 to 1947. [2] In 1919 there were nearly more than thirty women's magazines in the country. [3] The first children's magazine was published in 1893. [4] The number of the magazines in the period 1828–1929 was 481. [5]
In 2014 the magazine market in the country was described as one of the lower-growth, smaller-scale markets. [6]
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Egypt. They may be published in Arabic or in other languages.
Cairo University, also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908; however, after being housed in various parts of Cairo, its faculties, beginning with the Faculty of Arts, were established on its current main campus in Giza in October 1929. It is the second oldest institution of higher education in Egypt after Al Azhar University, notwithstanding the pre-existing higher professional schools that later became constituent colleges of the university. It was founded and funded as the Egyptian University by a committee of private citizens with royal patronage in 1908 and became a state institution under King Fuad I in 1925. In 1940, four years following his death, the university was renamed King Fuad I University in his honor. It was renamed a second time after the Egyptian revolution of 1952. The university currently enrolls approximately 155,000 students in 20 faculties and 3 institutions. It counts three Nobel Laureates among its graduates and is one of the 50 largest institutions of higher education in the world by enrollment.
Al-Ahram, founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya. It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt.
The Nahda, also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia, during the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
Akhbar Al Adab is an Arabic weekly literary magazine which is published by state-run Akhbar Al Yawm publishing house.
Ayman Zohry is a demographer/geographer and expert on migration studies based in Cairo, Egypt. He was born in Souhag, Egypt. Zohry received his Ph.D. from the University of Sussex in 2002. He is a leading researcher in the field of migration studies in Egypt with a special focus on irregular migration.
Mass media in Egypt are highly influential in Egypt and in the Arab World, attributed to its large audience and its historically TV and film industry supplies to the Arab-speaking world.
Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman".
Al-Hilal is a monthly Egyptian cultural and literature magazine founded in 1892. It is among the oldest magazines dealing with arts in the Arab world.
Al Siyassa Al Dawliya is a quarterly magazine published by Al Ahram publishing house in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1965, the magazine is one of the earliest publications on international politics. The publishing house also owns Al Ahram and Al Ahram Weekly, two of significant publications in the country.
Al Fatat was a women's magazine published in Alexandria, Egypt. The magazine was the first Arab women's magazine and was one of the earliest publications in the country. It was published from 1892 to 1894. Al Fatat is the forerunner of the women's magazines in the Arab countries.
Adab wa Naqd is a monthly literary magazine published in Egypt. It has been in circulation since 1984 and is affiliated with the Progressive National Unionist Party.
Ashraf Dali is an Egyptian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in Banha, Egypt on March 13, 1963. He is the Acting President of the AJA. Ashraf Dali won the Manhae Prize in Literature 2014. Since 1989, when his first book of poetry was published, Ashraf Aboul-Yazid has been keen to introduce himself as a man of words. He won the Arab Journalism Award in Culture, in 2015, given by Dubai Press Club, UAE, for his work published in Al-Arabi magazine, The Art of Miniature in Literature, History and Myth.
The Amiri Press or Amiria Press is a printing press, and one of the main agencies with which Muhammad Ali Pasha modernized Egypt. The Amiria Press had a profound effect on Egyptian literature and intellectual life in the country and in the greater region, as scientific works in European languages were translated into Arabic.
Labiba Hashim (1952-1882) was a Lebanese author who founded and published Fatat al-Sharq magazine in Cairo in 1906, one of the first female-oriented magazines of the Arab world. In the magazine Hashim advocated for women's rights, especially rights related to women's education and involvement in politics. Today, many researchers are working to collect information about Hashim in order to preserve her heritage and legacy.
Al Tali'a was a monthly Marxist magazine which was based in Cairo, Egypt. It was in circulation between 1965 and 1977.
Al Adab was an Arabic avant-garde existentialist literary print magazine published in Beirut, Lebanon, in the period 1953–2012. It was restarted in 2015 as an online-only publication. Encyclopædia Britannica describes it as one of the leading publications founded in the Arab countries in the latter half of the 20th century. Although the magazine was headquartered in Beirut, it was distributed all over the Arabic-speaking regions.
Al Majalla Al Jadida was an Arabic language socialist and avant-garde cultural and literary magazine which existed between 1929 and 1944 with a two-year interruption. Being an early avant-garde magazine in the Arab world it is one of two magazines started by Salama Moussa. The other one was Al Mustaqbal which was launched in 1914.
Al Muqattam was an Arabic newspaper which was published in Cairo, Egypt, between 1888 and 1952. It was one of the leading papers until its closure by the Egyptian government in 1954. The title of the paper was a reference to a range of hills outside Cairo.
Al Majalla was an Arabic language cultural magazine headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. The magazine was started by the Ministry of Culture in 1957 and published until 1971. Its subtitle was Sijil al-Thaqafa al-Rai‘a.