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Marie Ajami & Al-Arous Magazine

Marie Ajami & Al-Arous Magazine

Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History

Excerpt from “A Letter to Europe” by Radwa Ashour. Cairo, September 1, 2003.  

Translation: “I write this message in the Arabic tongue (here you are reading a translation from the original Arabic), an ancient and modern tongue that

Members of the Arab Women’s Organization in Damascus, 1932.

Image: Palestinian Women’s Delegation protesting in front of the British High Commissioner’s House, 1929. In the middle, wearing a white hat and a scarf, is Matiel Mogannam, author of groundbreaking English-language book “The Arab W

From MRA Magazine: Documents from and about Arab Women, 1974.

Mahia Jarjara ماهية محمد عمر جرجرة founder of the first feminist magazine in Yemen and Arabian Penninsula titled “Fatat Shimsan” in 1960.

The first issue of the magazine proclaims that:
وعمر الصحافة في العالم لا يتجاوز نصف القرن فقبل ذل

Wisal Moussa Hassan, the First Professional Camerawoman in Sudan and the Arab Region. The New Hawa’ Magazine, Issue 33, 18 November 1969, Found in National Records Office. 

When asked what is the significance of the Hawaa’ Al-Jadida

Nabawiyya Moussa describes her memoir Tareekhi bi qalami “My history written with my own pen” as:

“وهو تحليل نفسي لفتاة قضت عمرها في جهاد مستمر، وهي نفسها لا تعرف إلى الآن أكان سبب هذا الجهاد والنضال المستمر خطأ صدر منها أم هو خطأ

“Women and Journalism” from Bint al-Nīl magazine (founded by Doria Shafik), Issue 99, January 1954, retrieved from the American University of Cairo’s Rare Books Digital Library.

Women include: Fatima Al Yousef, Muneera Thabit, Amin