Al Gomhuria

Al Gomhuria was established in 1954 following the Egyptian revolution{{cite web|title=Publication overview|url=http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/egypt/documents/semc/20111122_en.pdf

|work=Ipsos|access-date=9 November 2013|archive-date=24 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424035713/http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/egypt/documents/semc/20111122_en.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Al Masry Al Youm transforming Egyptian press

|url=https://tavaana.org/en/content/al-masry-al-youm-transforming-egyptian-press-0|access-date=13 September 2014

|work=Tavaana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913125523/https://tavaana.org/en/content/al-masry-al-youm-transforming-egyptian-press-0|archive-date=13 September 2014|url-status=dead}} and became the new regime's leading media outlet.{{cite journal|last=Alterman|first=Jon B.|title=New Media New Politics?|journal=The Washington Institute|year=1998|volume=48|access-date=7 April 2013|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyPaper48.pdf|archive-date=13 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513133813/http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyPaper48.pdf|url-status=dead}} The paper was published using the facilities of Wafd party's newspaper Al Misri, which had been banned and forced to shut down by the regime. Anwar Sadat became the editor of the daily. The publisher of the paper is Dar Al Tahrir which was founded following the 1952 revolution.{{cite book|author=Mamoun Fandy|title=(Un)civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QfURgCJmekC&pg=PA30|year=2007

|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-99393-1|page=30}}{{cite web|title=Transformation of Business|url=http://www.balticmedia.eu/sites/default/files/MT7_4_70-85_1.pdf|work=Media Transformations|access-date=31 December 2013|author=Angela Powers|archive-date=1 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101034909/http://www.balticmedia.eu/sites/default/files/MT7_4_70-85_1.pdf|url-status=dead}} However, Al Gomhuria could not completely achieve the goals set by Gamal Abdel Nasser.{{cite journal|author=Jack Crabbs, Jr|title=Politics, History, and Culture in Nasser's Egypt|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|date=October 1975|volume=6|issue=4 |page=392|jstor=162751|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/162751}}

The circulation of the daily in 2000 was 400,000 copies.{{cite web|author1=Sahar Hegazi |author2=Mona Khalifa |title=Increasing the Coverage of Reproductive Health Issues in Egyptian Press Project |url=http://www.popcouncil.org/uploads/pdfs/frontiers/FR_FinalReports/egyptmedia.pdf|publisher=FRONTIERS/Population Council|accessdate=30 September 2014|date=October 2000|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006201517/http://www.popcouncil.org/uploads/pdfs/frontiers/FR_FinalReports/egyptmedia.pdf |archivedate=6 October 2014 }}

Samir Ragab served as the chairman of the board and the editor in chief of the daily.{{cite web|title=Renowned Author, Samir Ragab visits 57357|url=http://www.57357.com/2008/renowned-author-samir-ragab-visits-57357/|publisher=57357|accessdate=30 September 2014|date=4 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006112224/http://www.57357.com/2008/renowned-author-samir-ragab-visits-57357/|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}} In August 2012, Gamal Abdel Rahim was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper by the Egyptian Shura Council.{{cite news|title=New editors appointed by Shura|url=https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2012/08/09/new-editors-appointed-by-shura/|access-date=25 September 2013|newspaper=Daily News Egypt|date=9 August 2012}} However, he was fired in October 2012 and Al Sayed Al Bably was named as the editor-in-chief in November.{{cite news|title=New editor-in-chief appointed at Al Gomhuria|url=https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2012/11/27/new-editor-in-chief-appointed-at-al-gomhuria/|access-date=31 December 2013|newspaper=Daily News Egypt|date=27 November 2012|author=Hend Kortam}}

Dar Al Tahrir publishing house also owns the following:

• Al Ray Lel Shaab (weekly newspaper)
• Al Messa (evening newspaper)
• Al Kora wal Malaeb (sports)
• Shashaty (entertainment)
• Aqidaty (Islamic)

The group also publishes:

• Egyptian Gazette (English)
• Le Progrès Egyptien (French)

• Siham Bayyumi
• Ebrahim Nafae{{cite web|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/286364/Egypt/Politics-/Veteran-Egyptian-journalist-Ibrahim-Nafea-dies-at-.aspx|title=Veteran Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Nafea dies at the age of 84|date=1 January 2018|accessdate=1 January 2018|work=Ahram Online}}
• Anwar Sadat (1955–1956){{cite book|author=Fawaz Gerges|title=Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East|year=2018|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ; Oxford|isbn=9781400890071|page=129|author-link=Fawaz Gerges

|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64675}}

• Mahmoud Salem

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