El Fagr (Egyptian weekly newspaper)
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Al-Fagr for Printing and Publishing Inc. |
| Editor | Manal Lashin |
| Founded | 3 June 2005 |
| Language | Arabic |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Website | www |
El Fagr (IPA: [elˈfæɡɾ]; also Al Fagr, Arabic: الفجر "The dawn") is an Egyptian independent weekly newspaper,[1] based in Cairo.[2]
History and profile
[edit]El Fagr was first published on 3 June 2005.[3] The paper is part of Al-Fagr for Printing and Publishing Inc.[3] The weekly, published on Thursdays,[4] is a sensationalist publication.[5]
Hassan Amr is one of the former editors of the paper.[6] As of 2013 Manal Lashin was the editor-in-chief of the weekly.[7]
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.[8] 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.[8]
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.[9]
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.[7]
On 3 October 2019, Facebook reported that it had removed El Fagr's accounts and pages on the Facebook and Instagram platforms due to the news organization conducting "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior." Facebook alleged that El Fagr had created fake accounts and pages posing as independent news organizations to mislead audiences across the Middle East and North Africa and criticize Iran, Turkey, and Qatar.[10]
On 2 April 2020, Twitter reported that it had removed 2,541 accounts associated with a covert information operation attributed to El Fagr and that El Fagr was receiving direction from the Egyptian government.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ Adel Iskandar (May 2007). "Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Era" (PDF). Arab Media & Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "El Fagr | Media Ownership Monitor".
- ^ a b Mohamed Ezz Elvarab. "Greasing the presses". Arab Memo to the Next American President (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ Ekram Ibrahim (21 June 2012). "Egyptian media warns of "massacre of the century"". Al-Ahram. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Richard Butsch; Sonia Livingstone (15 August 2013). The Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses. Routledge. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-135-04305-6.
- ^ 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): 193–227. doi:10.1177/1940161208317142. S2CID 145067689. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Media and Press Situation in Egypt: Ninth Report" (Report). Al Sawt Al Hurr. 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 November 2013.
- ^ "Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior in UAE, Nigeria, Indonesia and Egypt | Facebook Newsroom". 4 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ Twitter Safety A April 2002.
External links
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- Official website
- [1] [2] – Reproductions of 17 October 2005 edition
