Rose al-Yūsuf

Rose al-Yūsuf was first published on 26 October 1925.[1][2] The magazine was named after its founder, Rose al Yusuf.[3][4] It is published by the Rose al Yusuf group[5] and is based in Cairo.[6]

The editor of the magazine was Mohamed El-Tabii until 1934.[7] He had a great role in establishing the paper alongside its founder Rose al Yusuf,[8] a Syrian-born female journalist.[5] Other renowned Egyptian journalists worked later on as editors,including Mostafa Amin and Ali Amin. Armenian-Egyptian cartoonist Alexander Saroukhan drew the cover page of the magazine from March 1928 to 1934.[7] Rakha and Zuhdi, Egyptian cartoonists, also contributed to the magazine.[7]

The magazine was started as a cultural and literary publication by Rose al Yusuf, but became a political magazine by 1928.[9] In 1935, the publisher added a daily newspaper with the same name. Both are published in Arabic. Although Rose al-Yūsuf is a political magazine, it also covers entertainment news.[3] In 1960 President Gamal Nasser nationalized the magazine, which began to be controlled by the Egyptian government.[10][11] The magazine had a leftist leaning[3] during the presidencies of Nasser and Anwar Sadat.[5]

In 1957 Ihsan Abdel Quddus was the editor-in-chief.[12] Since the government took control in 1960, the editors-in-chief of the magazine have been appointed by the Shura Council.[13] In July 2005 Abdallah Kamal was appointed editor-in-chief, replacing Mohamed Abdel Moneim.[13][14] He served in the post until 2011.[15] In ِApril 2011 Osama Salama became the editor-in-chief (when SCAF was ruling Egypt), but left his post when the Muslim Brotherhood came to the power[16]. Essam Abdelaziz (2012\ 2014) replaced him.In 2014 Ibrahim Khalil became the editor-in-chief[17] and served in the post until 30 May 2017.

On May 31, 2017, 36-year-old Hany Abdullah became editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf weekly magazine. According to his age, he was the youngest editor-in-chief among his Egyptians colleagues[18][19][20] since the nationalization of the press in Nasser’s era.[21]. He was a reporter specialized in Political Islam and Muslim Brotherhood issues. In April 2013 he argued that the Egyptian people would protest against the Muslim Brotherhood regime, which would be ousted from power in July 2013[22]. After the Muslim Brotherhood was thrown out from power, he wrote a book about the Muslim Brotherhood International Organization. The book was based on a large amount of documents that explained what happened in fact at the Organization's closed rooms, and uncovered the secret relations between the radical organization and the intelligence services all over the world. According to [WorldCat Identities] [23], the book titled [Kaʻbat al-jawāsīs : al-wathāʼiq "al-sirrīyah" li-tanẓīm "al-Ikhwān" al-duwalī] (Arabic: كعبة الجواسيس: الوثائق السرية لتنظيم الإخوان الدولي‎), was one of the most widely held works about the Muslim Brotherhood.

The weekly had a circulation of 250,000 copies in 2000.[24]

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