El Fagr

For other uses, see Al-Fajr.
El Fagr
الفجر
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Al-Fagr for Printing and Publishing Inc.
Editor Manal Lashin
Founded 3 June 2005 (2005-06-03)
Language Arabic
Headquarters Cairo, Egypt
Website Official website

El Fagr (IPA: [elˈfæɡɾ]; also Al Fagr, Arabic: الفجر "The dawn") is an Egyptian independent weekly newspaper,[1] based in Cairo.

History and profile

El Fagr was first published on 3 June 2005.[2] The paper is part of Al-Fagr for Printing and Publishing Inc.[2] The weekly, published on Thursdays,[3] is a sensationalist publication.[4]

Hassan Amr is one of the former editors of the paper.[5] As of 2013 Manal Lashin was the editor-in-chief of the weekly.[6]

In its 21st edition, dated 17 October 2005, El Fagr was the first newspaper worldwide to republish on its front page (one cartoon) and page 17, a total of six cartoons portraying the Islamic prophet Muhammad of twelve cartoons originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.[7] These twelve cartoons gave rise to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. However, these caricatures received little attention in Egypt and the paper was not banned due to its reprints of the caricatures.[7]

In March 2006 Amira Malsh, a journalist working for El Fagr, was sentenced to a year in prison with hard labor because of libeling a judge in an article published in the paper.[8]

In 2013 the weekly started an award in the memory of Al Husseiny Abu Deif, a journalist who died in December 2012 during clashes among the demonstrators.[6]

References

  1. Adel Iskandar (May 2007). "Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Era" (PDF). Arab Media & Society. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 Mohamed Ezz Elvarab. "Greasing the presses". Arab Memo to the Next American President (PDF). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  3. Ekram Ibrahim (21 June 2012). "Egyptian media warns of "massacre of the century"". Ahram Online. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  4. Richard Butsch; Sonia Livingstone (15 August 2013). The Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses. Routledge. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-135-04305-6.
  5. Lawrence Pintak; Jeremy Ginges (July 2008). "The Mission of Arab Journalism: Creating Change in a Time of Turmoil" (PDF). The International Journal of Press/Politics. 13 (3). doi:10.1177/1940161208317142. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Media and Press Situation in Egypt: Ninth Report" (Report). Al Sawt Al Hurr. 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  7. 1 2 Daved Barry; Hans Hansen (30 April 2008). The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization. SAGE Publications. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-4462-0407-8. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  8. Hussein Amin. "Strengthening the Rule of Law and Integrity in the Arab World" (PDF). Arab Center for the Development of the Rule of Law and Integrity. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
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