Al-'Arus
{{Short description|Women's magazine in Syria (1910–1925}}
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| category = Women's magazine
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| founder = Mary Ajami
| founded = 1910
| firstdate = December 1910
| finaldate = 1925
| country = {{ubl|Egypt|Syria}}
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Al-'Arus ({{langx|ar|العروس}} / {{ALA-LC|ar|Al-ʻArūs}}, {{lit|The Bride}}) was a women's magazine which was one of the earliest feminist publications in the Middle East. It was also the first Arabic women's magazine in Syria.{{cite magazine|title=Rose Antun: Early 20th Century Arab Feminist Journalist|magazine=Al Jadid|author=Naomi Pham|url=https://www.aljadid.com/node/2253|access-date=14 August 2023}} The magazine appeared between 1910 and 1925 with some interruptions. The founder and editor of the magazine was a Syrian woman, Mary Ajami. It was first based in Alexandria, Egypt, and then in Damascus, Syria.
History and profile
Al-'Arus was established by Mary Ajami, a Syrian Orthodox, in Alexandria in 1910 as a 32-page women's magazine. Its first issue appeared in December that year.{{cite web|title=Mary Ajami, al Arous, v.1, no.1 (Dec 1910)|access-date=14 August 2023
|url=https://online-exhibit.aub.edu.lb/items/show/4190|publisher=American University of Beirut}} Ajami also edited the magazine which featured articles on history, literature, culture and medicine focusing on the problems of women.{{cite web|website=fikerinstitute.org
|author=Ola Rifai|date=December 2022|url=https://www.fikerinstitute.org/publications/al-nahda|title=Al-Nahda & the Emergence of Arab Feminist Thought|page=6|access-date=14 August 2023}} Shortly after its start, the magazine moved to Damascus, the hometown of Ajami.{{cite book|author=Joseph T. Zeidan|title=Arab Women Novelists: The Formative Years and Beyond|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1995
|location=Albany, NY|isbn=978-0-7914-2171-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6YXo4VV6yMC&pg=PP246|page=246}} It was expanded, becoming a 40-page monthly magazine which temporarily ceased publication in 1914 when World War I began.
The magazine resumed publication in Damascus after the war ended in 1918 and had 60 pages. Al-'Arus folded in 1925 due to the Great Syrian Revolt.
Contributors
Notable contributors of Al-'Arus included Kahlil Gibran, Mikhail Naimy, Elia Abu Madi, Maruf Al Rusafi and Abbas Mahmoud Al Aqqad.{{cite web|title=Mary Ajami: Snapshots from a life of activism|website=Syria Untold|url=https://syriauntold.com/2021/11/01/mary-ajami-snapshots-from-a-life-of-activism/|access-date=14 August 2023|date=1 November 2021}}
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Category:1910 establishments in Egypt
Category:1925 establishments in Mandatory Syria
Category:Defunct Arabic-language magazines
Category:Defunct magazines published in Syria
Category:Defunct feminist magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1910
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Category:Mass media in Alexandria
Category:Mass media in Damascus