The oldest newspapers in Egypt

  The Memory of Modern Egypt website has finished preparing a huge press archive for the most important Egyptian newspapers for more than a hundred years. Through a tour of the press archive available on the site, the browser can take a look at Egypt and its conditions through its various news; And the many articles written by senior writers, artists, politicians and economists.

Abu Zamara newspaper

The site also includes funny news and sarcastic names about the state of Egypt during the British occupation of it. Many newspapers, some of us have heard of it, and many do not know anything about it. During a tour of the site, you can browse more than ten thousand published articles and news, including complete and rare newspapers, including the newspaper Abu Nazara Zarqa, the first Egyptian comic newspaper founded by Jacob Sanua in 1877.

Abu glasses comic newspaper

Dr. Khaled Azab, the supervisor of the site, confirmed that the site contains many newspapers and magazines through which we read the reality of Egypt for a hundred years and more, in addition to a large group of first issues of some newspapers, including Al-Waqee’ Al-Masrya, Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar, Al-Jumhuriya, Al-Mahrousa, Minbar Al-Sharq, and Al-Saiqa, which is a newspaper specialized by civil courts to publish judicial announcements.

The first issue of Al-Ahram newspaper

He added that among the news published in 1917 was the news of generalizing primary education in the Egyptian country and making education compulsory, in addition to the press coverage of the events of World War I (1914-1918) and the vision of politicians, economists and thinkers of the events of the war during its outbreak, and a very important article by the Dean of Arabic Literature, Dr. And there is no school in charge of teaching these antiquities and models. He explained that what the Ministry of Education is doing in terms of teaching the hieroglyphic language in secondary schools as an activity subject is useless due to the lack of follow-up and the lack of available capabilities to visit the antiquities and study them carefully and carefully.

Azab referred to another article by Dr. Taha Hussein as well, in which he calls for the teaching of hieroglyphs, Coptic, Greek and other unused languages so that those working in antiquities can learn about the civilization of other arts, and he is surprised that foreigners are more interested in their civilization than Egyptians.

He hinted that the site includes many articles by Imam Muhammad Abdo and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani dealing with their reformist and enlightening thoughts. And articles by some artists, most notably an article by George Abyad, Dawlat Abyad, and a press interview with the dean of theater Youssef Wehbe, the artist Amina Rizk and Suleiman Naguib, and the musician Muhammad Abdel-Wahhab.

It is noteworthy that the site includes some distinguished press coverage of some events, including the events of the Egyptian delegation's visit to the peace conference to demand the independence of Egypt, the promulgation of the 1923 constitution and the signing of the 1936 treaty, the Cairo fire on July 26, 1952, the tripartite aggression against Egypt in October 1956, the setback of June 5, 1967, the unity between Egypt and Syria, the October 1973 war, and Sadat's visit to Jerusal