Friday, May 15, 2009

Al-Mussawar Reboot

It is very interesting to see an official state owned magazine like Al-Mussawar having its ads in independent and partisan newspapers like Al Wafd , Al Shorouk and Al Masry Al Youm.
It seems that Hamdi Razek is so so so popular that since the regime's decision to appoint him as the old magazine's Chief in editor ,the magazine ads are published everywhere.
Of course if you follow up the magazine since Razek's promotion you may know why; the magazine is attacking the MBs, Hezbollah and Hamas on a weekly basis.
Razek hates the MBs,Hezbollah and Hamas and everything Islamist.
Reading the magazine now makes me feel that I am reading a Neo-Con magazine in Bush's time.
In fact Mubarak media lately has applied the Neo-Con media tactics as if their tactics were that successful !!
I should hint out that this magazine was one of Egypt's greatest and successful magazine till mid 1950s if I may say. It had a regional distribution in time there was no pan Arab press.
But unfortunately now many people in Egypt do not know that it is still printed !!
Razek for sure pushed some new blood to the magazine now its ads are published every where but unfortunately this is the wrong type of blood needed for such great magazine with great history in our national press.
Here are some old Al-Mussawar's covers in its golden age

Saad Pasha on the cover of Al-Mussawar
Saad Zaglol on the 6th of May 1926 issue 
The Honeymooners on Al Mussawar cover 1951

The honeymooners King and Queen of Egypt Farouk and Nariman on the 10th of August 1951
Ali Maher Pasha on the cover of Al-Mussawar 1952

Ali Pasha Maher ,the prime minister of Egypt on the cover of Al-Mussawar on the 22nd February 1952 along with his family : His son Mohamed and his daughter in law and his grandchildren whom he could not say no to : Shahira and Ali JR. This is probably the last time he would appear on a magazine cover along with his family.
Do you know that Al-Mussawar was much better during that time from the editing point of view !!?? No wonder Fakery Abaza was the Chief in editor of the magazine then !!

3 comments:

  1. Hamdi Razek is not running a good magazine but polishing Mubarak and its regime xxs!! and all those attacks are all BS! the more trashy and attacks he did the more famous and more money he got from the regime! we all know the drill! Any decent person would just throw this magazine in the trash bin! sorry to say long gone the real journalist who are well respected, have dignity, love their country and most importantly telling the truth!So the word is keep on polishing and you will be up there on the higher post with big money!

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  2. لمعلوماتك : توزع المصور ألف نسخة :D

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  3. @anonymous, I agree with you but in the end of the day somehow these magazines reach abroad just like Al-Gomhouria and its chief in editor attack on Hezbollah.

    @Mido, 1000 !!? only wow well it seems that they think that they will sell more with these ads everywhere !!

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