Al-Fajr (literary magazine) explained

Category:	Literary
Frequency:	Weekly
Firstdate:	8 January 1925
Finaldate:	31 January 1927
Country:	Egypt
Based:	Cairo
Language:	Arabic

The Egyptian literary magazine al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر; English: The Dawn) was published weekly in Cairo between 8 January 1925 and 31 January 1927.^{[1] [2]} Ahmed Khairi Sa'id was editor-in-chief.

A group of young writers of the al-Madrasa al-Haditha ("Modernist School"), including Mahmoud Taymour (1894 -1973), Mahmoud Tahir Laasheen (1894-1954), Yahya Haqqi^[3] (1905-1993) and Husayn Fawzy (1900-1988), are considered to be the founders of the magazine.^[4] Some of them increased their popularity inside and outside of Egypt by publishing their works in al-Fajr.

Generally, the declared aim of the journal was reaching the renaissance of the Egyptian literary scene and in particular "intellectual independence".^[5]

Notes and References

1. Robin Ostle. 2000. The "Apollo" Phenomenon. Quaderni di Studi Arabi. 18. 75–76. 1121-2306. 25802896.
2. Web site: فتحى سيد فرج - محمود طاهر لاشين : رائد القصة القصيرة المنسى 1/2 . 29 October 2022. /www.ahewar.org.
3. Miriam Cooke. 1981. Yahya Haqqi as Critic and Nationalist . International Journal of Middle East Studies. 13. 1. 21–34. 10.1017/S0020743800055057 . 163285 . 0020-7438.
4. O. A. (o. J.): Development of Arabic Short Story. http://arabicuniversitycollege.yolasite.com/resources/Journal/November_2009/Development%20of20Arabic%20short%20story.pdf, Retrieved 29 April 2019.
5. Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski (1986). Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930. New York und Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 125.