The Arabic-language journal Al-Balagh al-Usbuʿi (Arabic: البلاغ الاسبوعی; DMG: al-Balāġ al-Usbūʿī; English: "The Weekly News") was published weekly in Cairo, Egypt, between 1926 and 1930. It was the weekly edition of the newspaper Al Balagh.[1] The first issue of the journal appeared in November 1926.[1]
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| Categories | Political magazine Literary magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Abdul Qadir Hamzah |
| Founder | Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad |
| Founded | 1926 |
| First issue | November 1926 |
| Final issue Number | 1930 |
| Country | Egypt |
| Based in | Cairo |
| Language | Arabic |
| Website | al-Balagh al-Usbuʿi |
Four volumes with a total of 150 editions were published. Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad (1889-1964), the founder, was a well-known Egyptian writer, poet, philosopher and historian who appointed Abdul Qadir Hamzah as editor of the journal.[2] In addition to critical political articles, numerous poems and prose were published in the magazine.[3] Among well-known authors Mohammed Abd al-Mu'ti al-Hamshari (1908-1938) gained popularity through his poetry. Nabawiyya Mousa Badawia (1886-1951), a teacher and pioneer among Egyptian women's rights activists of the 20th century, designed a special page for women with feminist themes and discourses of Egypt from that time.[4]
Al-Balagh al-Usbuʿi was also regarded as a supporter of the Wafd Party, therefore its publication was probably discontinued in 1930.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Ami Ayalon (1995). The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-19-535857-5.
- ^ a b Talhami, Ghada Hashem. (2007). Palestine in the Egyptian Press: From Al-Ahram to Al-Ahali. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham/Boulder, pp. 94, 181.
- ^ Gershoni, Israel. (1992). The Evolution of National Culture in Modern Egypt: Intellectual Formation and Social Diffusion, 1892-1945. Poetics Today. 13(2), pp. 325–350.
- ^ Badran, Margot. (1980). The Feminist Vision in the Writings of Three Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Women. In: Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies). 15(1/2), pp. 11–20, here: 13.