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There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, [1] such as Turkish, French and English. [2] By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. [1] By 2011, daily newspaper circulation in Egypt increased to more than 4.3 million copies. [3]
Youm7 (Arabic: اليوم السابع, IPA: [iljoːm issaːbiʕ], meaning The Seventh Day) is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper.It was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since May 2011. [2]
The paper also ceased its "free opinion" section and fired several contributors during the same period. [12] [13] In terms of institutional size, it is the second daily in the country after al-Ahram. [2] During the 1950s al-Akhbar had a circulation of over 700,000 copies. [6]
The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in the 1930s and 1940s. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of Al Masry Al Youm. [5] In 2004, its establishment was finalized, [6] and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition.
Al-Ahram (Arabic: الأهرام; lit. ' The Pyramids '), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya (The Egyptian Events, founded 1828). [2]
El Watan News (Arabic: الوطن) is an Egyptian daily news portal published online by Future Publishing, Distribution, and Press.The portal provides breaking news reports, political analyses, and other general economic and entertainment coverage to an audience of Arabic speakers worldwide.
Akhbar el-Yom was founded by the Amin brothers, Mustafa Amin and Ali Amin, on 6 November 1944. [2] The paper is released weekly on Saturdays. The newspaper is owned by the Shura Council and considered a semi-official newspaper.
During the Egyptian revolution in 2011 Osama Heikal was the editor-in-chief. [9] He was appointed information minister in July 2011. [9] The paper has also an online version, called Al Wafd Gate. [10]