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Al-Masry Al-Youm (Arabic: المصري اليوم al-Maṣrī l-Yawm, IPA: [elˈmɑsˤɾi lˈjoːm], meaning The Egyptian Today) is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Arabic as is its website, almasryalyoum.com.
There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, [1] such as Turkish, French and English. [2] By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. [1] By 2011, daily newspaper circulation in Egypt increased to more than 4.3 million copies. [3]
Al-Ahram is one of the largest circulating newspapers in the world. [24] Long-term editor of the daily Mohammad Hassanein Haykal was the confidant of Nasser and also, the semi-official voice of the Egyptian government when he was in office. [7] [25] The Egyptian government owns a controlling share of the stocks of the paper and appoints the ...
Youm7 was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since 31 May 2011. [2] Editor Khaled Salah said shortly after the paper's expansion to daily publication that Youm7 "supports the popular need for a civil state and will strive to present facts to readers without political bias and with credible representation of diverse views."
The paper is released weekly on Saturdays. The newspaper is owned by the Shura Council and considered a semi-official newspaper. It has a daily edition called al-Akhbar, which was also established by the Amin brothers. [2] The circulation of the paper in 2000 was 1.5 million copies. [3]
Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo editors-in-chief. [6] [7] Hisham Mourad also served as editor-in-chief. He was appointed to the post in January 2011. [8] In June 2014, Fouad Mansour who was the managing editor of the magazine since 2003, was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. [9]
In terms of institutional size, it is the second daily in the country after al-Ahram. [2] During the 1950s al-Akhbar had a circulation of over 700,000 copies. [6] In 1976, the paper was the most read daily in Egypt with a circulation of 650,000 copies. [14] In 2000 the paper sold 1.1 million copies. [15]
The circulation of the daily in 2000 was 600,000 copies. [7] Mohamed Ali Ibrahim was named as the editor-in-chief of the paper in 2005. [citation needed] Then Abbas Al Tarabili served as the editor-in-chief until February 2009. [8] During the Egyptian revolution in 2011 Osama Heikal was the editor-in-chief. [9]