The Emergence of Rose Al-Youssef Magazine 1925

Abstract

Rosa Al-Youssef magazine is one of the oldest weekly magazines in Egypt, and was founded by Fatima Al-Youssef on October 26, 1925, where it was the first political magazine in the Arab world, and it was intended to be an artistic magazine interested in providing fine arts and literature, but it showed great interest in the political aspect and played an important role in shaping the political discourse in Egypt in its early years and called for Egypt's independence from British colonial rule and Supporting the national movement, the ownership of the magazine has moved several times, and its focus shifted from politics to social and cultural issues, and despite that, it has remained an important source of information for the Egyptian public, and it had a great impact on art and literature in Egypt as it was a platform for artists, writers and intellectuals to display their works and express their opinions on cultural issues as it devoted its doors to the news of art, literature, writers and artists, and even it did not neglect the art of caricature, which provided the opportunity for a number of cartoonists to display their works in it.