Hawaa
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherDar Al Hilal
First issue1954 (1954)
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic
WebsiteHawaa

Hawaa (Arabic: Eve) is a weekly women's magazines published in Cairo, Egypt. The magazine is modelled by other women's magazines in the Arab countries.[1] It was Egypt's first women's magazine, founded in 1954.[2][3]

History and profile

Hawaa was first published in 1954.[4][5] The founder was Amina Al Said, an Egyptian journalist and feminist.[1][6] The publisher is Dar Al Hilal.[7]

Hawaa is published weekly[8] and features news on health and beauty, family affairs, fashion,[4] adornment and home management using a feminist perspective.[9] In the 1970s it featured short stories written by both Egyptian and Western authors.[10] The magazine targets not only women but also men.[11]

Amina Al Said, its founder, was the first editor-in-chief of the weekly and served in the post from its inception in 1954 to 1969.[6] She was the first female editor-in-chief[1] and the first female chair of a publishing house, namely, Dar Al Hilal, in Egypt.[12] She published a weekly column in Hawaa until her death in 1995.[5]

Iqbal Baraka was the long-term editor-in-chief of the magazine[13] who was appointed to the post in July 1993.[14] On 28 June 2014 Magda Mahmoud became the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[15]

Egyptian intellectual Latifa al-Zayyat was the contributor of Hawaa from 1965 to 1968.[16]

Circulation

Hawaa sold 175,000 copies in 1954.[4] Its circulation was 200,000 copies before 1967 and was about 175,000 copies in the period between 1967 and 1970.[4] The circulation of the magazine in 2000 was 150,000 copies.[8]

The magazine also enjoyed high circulation levels abroad[3][17] and had the largest foreign circulation in 1989.[18]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Adel Darwish (5 September 1995). "Obituary: Amina al-Said". The Independent. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. Mervat F. Hatem (2005). Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (1st ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8156-2864-4.
  3. 1 2 Janet K. Boles; Diane Long Hoeveler (2004). Historical Dictionary of Feminism (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-0-8108-4946-4.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Sonia Aly Dabbous (October 2002). "Women in the Media Past - Present - Future..." Ayamm. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Amina el-Saeed; Egyptian Feminist, 81". The New York Times. 15 August 1995. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Amīnah al-Saʿīd". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  7. Mervat F. Hatem (2000). "The Pitfalls of the Nationalist Discourses on Citizenship in Egypt". In Suad Joseph (ed.). Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8156-2864-4.
  8. 1 2 Sahar Hegazi; Mona Khalifa (October 2000). "Increasing the Coverage of Reproductive Health Issues in Egyptian Press Project". FRONTIERS/Population Council. doi:10.31899/rh4.1139. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  9. Marilyn Booth (May 2001). "Woman in Islam: Men and the "Women's Press" in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Egypt". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (2): 171–201. doi:10.1017/S002074380100201X. JSTOR 259561. S2CID 161301527.
  10. Michael W. Suleiman (October 1978). "Changing Attitudes Toward Women in Egypt: The Role of Fiction in Women's Magazines". Middle Eastern Studies. 14 (3): 352. doi:10.1080/00263207808700386.
  11. Mohamed Younis (2007). "Daughters of the Nile: The Evolution of Feminism in Egypt". Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. 13 (2).
  12. Galal Amin (2012). "Egypt and the Market Culture" (PDF). In Aleya Serour (ed.). Writing Egypt. History, Literature, and Culture. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press. p. 196. ISBN 9789774163784.
  13. "Feminists in Egypt". International Quranic Center. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  14. "All about Eve: Egyptian feminist and journalist Iqbal..." Chicago Tribune. 25 July 1993. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  15. "Media Situation in Egypt: Thirteenth report for the period June and August 2014" (Report). Al Sawt Al Hurr. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  16. Amal Amireh (October 1996). "Remembering Latifa al-Zayyat". Al Jadid. 2 (12).
  17. Karen L. Kinnear (2011). Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-59884-426-9.
  18. Jennifer Uglow; Frances Hinton, eds. (1989). "AI-Sa'id 'Aminah". Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-349-12704-7.
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