Rose al Yusuf (magazine)

Rose al-Yūsuf
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1925
First issue26 October 1925; 99 years ago (1925-10-26)
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic

Rose al-Yūsuf (Arabic: روز اليوسف; also written Rose al-Yousef) is an Arabic weekly political magazine published in Egypt.

History and profile

Rose al-Yūsuf was first published on 26 October 1925.[1][2] The magazine was named after its founder, Rose al Yusuf.[3][4] It is published by the Rose al Yusuf group[5] and is based in Cairo.[6]

The founding editor of Rose al-Yūsuf was Mohamed El-Tabii until 1934.[7] He had a great role in establishing the paper alongside its founder Rose al Yusuf,[8] a Syrian-born female journalist.[5] Other renowned Egyptian journalists worked later on as editors, including Mostafa Amin and Ali Amin. Armenian-Egyptian cartoonist Alexander Saroukhan drew the cover page of the magazine from March 1928 to 1934.[7] Rakha and Zuhdi, Egyptian cartoonists, also contributed to the magazine.[7]

Rose al-Yūsuf was started as a cultural and literary publication by Rose al Yusuf, but became a political magazine by 1928.[9] In the early period the magazine was a fierce critic of the Wafd Party.[10] In 1935, the publisher added a daily newspaper with the same name. Both are published in Arabic. Although Rose al-Yūsuf is a political magazine, it also covers entertainment news.[3] In 1960 President Gamal Nasser nationalized the magazine, which began to be controlled by the Egyptian government.[11][12] The magazine had a leftist leaning[3] during the presidencies of Nasser and Anwar Sadat.[5]

In 1957 Ihsan Abdel Quddus was the editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf.[13] Since the government took control in 1960, the editors-in-chief of the magazine have been appointed by the Shura Council.[14] Ahmad Hamrush was serving as the editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf in the late 1960s.[15]

In July 2005 Abdallah Kamal was appointed editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf, replacing Mohamed Abdel Moneim in the post.[14][16] He served in the post until 2011.[17] In April 2011 Osama Salama became the editor-in-chief, but left his post when the Muslim Brotherhood came to the power.[18] Essam Abdelaziz replaced him in the post. In 2014 Ibrahim Khalil became the editor-in-chief[19] and served in the post until 30 May 2017.

On 31 May 2017, 36-year-old Hany Abdullah became editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf who was the youngest editor-in-chief[20][21][22] since the nationalization of the press in Nasser's era.

The weekly sold 250,000 copies in 2000.[23]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi (18 December 2011). Casting Off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist. I.B.Tauris. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-85772-071-9.
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  4. ^ Earl L. Sullivan (1986). Women in Egyptian Public Life. Syracuse University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8156-2354-0.
  5. ^ a b c Mohamed El Bendary (2010). The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events. Lexington Books. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-7391-4520-3.
  6. ^ "Media Landscape". Menassat. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  7. ^ a b c Talaat I. Farag (January 2004). "Satirical Papyrus and Modern Cartoonists (Part II)". The Ambassadors Magazine. 7 (1).
  8. ^ Eyal Sagui Bizawe (1 October 2009). "The return of Cinderella". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  9. ^ Cathlyn Mariscotti (2008). Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women's Movement, 1925-1939: Changing Perspectives. Syracuse University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-8156-3170-5.
  10. ^ "British Embassy Cairo Documents" (PDF). Gamal Abdel Nasser Digital Archive - Bibliotheca Alexandrina. 30 November 1946. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  11. ^ James J. Napoli; Hussain Y. Amin (1997). "Press Freedom in Egypt". In Festus Eribo; William Jong-Ebot (eds.). Press Freedom and Communication in Africa. Africa World Press. ISBN 9780865435513.
  12. ^ Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron (1999). "Freedom of the press in Egypt: Checks and Balances". Law Journal Library.
  13. ^ Nasser Kalawoun (2000). The Struggle For Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese-Egyptian Relations. I.B.Tauris. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-86064-423-8.
  14. ^ a b Gamal Essam El Din (7–13 July 2005). "A radical shake-up?". Al Ahram Weekly. No. 750. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.
  15. ^ Yehoshafat Harkabi (1970). "Liberation or genocide?". Society. 7 (9–10): 63. doi:10.1007/bf02804064.
  16. ^ High-profile journalist Abdallah Kamal passed away on Friday at the age of 49 due to a heart attack. Mada Masr. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  17. ^ "Abdullah Kamal". Al Arabiya. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  18. ^ "أسامة سلامة.. القديس". بوابة فيتو.
  19. ^ Maspiro 28 June 2014. Archived 10 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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  21. ^ "تغييرات المؤسسات الصحفية: "سلامة" للأهرام و"رزق" للأخبار و"سليم" لدار التحرير | المصري اليوم". Al-Masry Al-Youm (in Arabic).
  22. ^ ""الوطنية للصحافة" تقرر تعيينات مؤقتة لمجالس إدارات الصحف القومية - بوابة الشروق". Shorouk News (in Arabic).
  23. ^ Sahar Hegazi; Mona Khalifa (October 2000). "Increasing the Coverage of Reproductive Health Issues in Egyptian Press Project" (PDF). FRONTIERS/Population Council. Retrieved 30 September 2014.