Al-Musawar

Al-Musawar (Arabic: المصور; the Illustrated) is an Egyptian weekly current events magazine.[1] The weekly is a state-owned publication,[2] and its headquarters is in Cairo.[3] It has been in circulation since 1925.

Al-Musawar
Former editorsAmīnah al-Saʿīd
Hamdy Rizq
Makram Mohammed Ahmed
Abdul Qadir Shuheib
Fatema Sayed
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherDar Al Hilal Publishing House
FounderGeorge Bey Zidan
Emil Zidan
Shukri Zidan
Founded1925 (1925)
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic

History and profile

Al Musawar was launched as a weekly in 1925.[4][5] The founder of the weekly was George Bey Zidan.[6] Emil and Shukri Zidan are also the founders of the weekly which is published on Saturdays.[4] The publisher is Dar Al Hilal Publishing House.[4][7] On 17 December 1932 the magazine began to publish a sports supplement, Al Abtal (meaning Champions in English).[8]

The weekly has been owned by the Egyptian government since 1960[9][10] and its editors-in-chief and head of the publishing house are appointed by the state.[7][11] As of 2011 Al Musawar was cited as a liberal magazine.[12]

One of its longest-serving editors was journalist Fekry Abaza.[13] He held the post between 1926 and 1961 when he was fired due to his article published on 17 August 1961.[14] Female writer Amīnah al-Saʿīd and Hamdy Rizq are among the former editors-in-chief of Al Musawar.[9][15] Makram Mohammed Ahmed served as editor-in-chief of the weekly from the mid-1980s to 2005.[7][16] Abdul Qadir Shuheib was appointed editor-in-chief in July 2005.[7] On 28 June 2014 Fatema Sayed became the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[17]

The weekly published interviews with major figures including one with Saudi King Faisal in August 1972[18] and several others with the former President Hosni Mubarak.[4]

See also

List of magazines in Egypt

References
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  2. Hanan Hammad (2009). "Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution in the Egyptian Press: From Fascination to Condemnation". Radical History Review (105): 42. doi:10.1215/01636545-2009-003.
  3. Europa World Year. London; New York: Europa Publication. 2004. p. 1538. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
  4. Mohamed El Bendary (2010). The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events. Lexington Books. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-7391-4520-3.
  5. M. Cherif Bassiouni (2016). Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath: 2011–2016. Cambridge University Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-107-13343-3.
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  7. "Egypt axes media moguls". News24. Cairo. 4 July 2005. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  8. Wilson Chacko Jacob (2011). Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940. Duke University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-8223-4674-6.
  9. Omar Halawa (28 September 2012). "Indebted and overstaffed, how can state-owned papers survive?". Egypt Independent. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  10. Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron (1999). "Freedom of the press in Egypt: Checks and Balances". Law Journal Library. 6: 22–43. doi:10.1163/221129800X00032.
  11. J. Miller. (11 November 1990). Gulf Crisis Produces Surge of Egyptian Confidence The New York Times. Retrieved 24 November 2013
  12. Ewan Stein (September 2011). "The "Camp David Consensus": Ideas, Intellectuals, and the Division of Labor in Egypt's Foreign Policy toward Israel". International Studies Quarterly. 55 (3): 737–758. JSTOR 23020063.
  13. مجلة المصور [Al Musawar Magazine] (in Arabic). Alexandrina: Memory of Modern Egypt Digital Archive. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  14. Ghada Hashem Talhami (2007). Palestine in the Egyptian Press: From Al Ahram to Al Ahali. Lexington Books. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-7391-5863-0.
  15. "Happened on this day: 20 May 2013". Discover Egypt. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  16. Zvi Bar'el (8 December 2013). "Egypt's new constitution: Greater freedom - subject to military approval". Haaretz. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  17. "Media Situation in Egypt: Thirteenth report for the period June and August 2014" (Report). Al Sawt Al Hurr. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  18. The Theory and Practice of Islamic Terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan. 10 November 2008. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-230-61650-9.
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