Al-Fukaha (magazine) explained

al-Fukaha
Category:	Satire
Frequency:	Weekly
Publisher:	Dar al-Hilal
Founded:	1926
Finaldate:	1933
Country:	Egypt
Based:	Cairo
Language:	Arabic

The Arabic-language satirical weekly al-Fukaha (Arabic: الفكاهة; DMG: al-Fukāha; English: "Humour" or "Joke") was published in Cairo between 1926 and 1933.^[1] The famous publishing house Dar al-Hilal edited seven volumes with a total of 369 issues.^{[2] [3]} The 48-page periodical largely started with a caricatural cover picture.^{[4] [5]} A large range of caricatures, comics and illustrations supplemented the satirical texts whereby the style was reminiscent of the New Yorker art and Pin-Up-Art of that time.^[6] On the one hand the journals satire targeted the Cairo daily life, on the other hand the international social scene.^[7] In 1933 Dar al-Hilal combined both journals al-Fukaha and al-Kawakib to the satire magazine Al-Ithnayn (meaning "The Two" in English).^[8]

Notes and References

1. Marilyn Booth. Marilyn Booth. Colloquial Arabic Poetry, Politics, and the Press in Modern Egypt. International Journal of Middle East Studies. August 1992. 24. 3. 431. 164623.
2. Al-Fukaha. 1926.
3. Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, Retrieved 29 April 2019.
4. Walter Armbrust: What Would Sayyid Qutb Say? In: Walter Armbrust (ed.): Culture Wars. The Arabic Music Video Controversy and other studies in satellite broadcasting in the Arab and Islamic world. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo/New York 2006, pp. 18–29.
5. Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, Retrieved 29 April 2019.
6. Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, last accessed on 29 April 2019.
7. Asher Kohn: The Syrian cartoonists who live and die by their pens. In: Roads & Kingdoms. 20 November 2015, last accessed on 29 April 2019.
8. Tarik Sabry: Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field. I.B. Tauris, London/New York 2012, p. 44.