Al Jamila

{{Infobox magazine

| image_file = Al Jamila March 2012 cover.jpg

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| image_caption = March 2012 cover of Al Jamila

| logo = Al Jamila magazine.png

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| editor = Mohammed Fahad Al Harthi

| editor_title = Editor-in-chief

| frequency = Monthly

| circulation =

| category = Women's magazine

| company = Saudi Research and Marketing Group

| publisher = Saudi Research and Publishing Company

| firstdate = {{Start date and age|1994|10|1|df=yes}}

| country = Saudi Arabia

| language = Arabic

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Al Jamila is an Arabic monthly women's magazine, published in Dubai. It is one of the publications of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group.

History and ownership

Al Jamila was firstly launched in London{{cite web|title=Biography |url=http://www.hishamalihafiz.com/bio.htm|work=Hisham Ali Hafiz|access-date=29 May 2012|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722005217/http://www.hishamalihafiz.com/bio.htm|archive-date=22 July 2012}} and then, in Riyadh in October 1994.{{cite web|title=Al Jamila |url=http://www.foldedup.com/al-khaleejiah-advertising-and-public-relations-co-ltd/al-jamila|work=Folded Up|access-date=26 May 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303172046/http://www.foldedup.com/al-khaleejiah-advertising-and-public-relations-co-ltd/al-jamila|archive-date=3 March 2011}} The magazine was relocated from London to Dubai in 2005.{{cite news|author=Mushtak Parker|title=SRMG: Taking the Publishing Sector in Mideast by Storm|newspaper=Arab News|url=http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=15§ion=0&article=89604&d=8&m=6&y=2012|access-date=8 June 2012

|date=6 December 2006}}

It is one of the magazines published by Saudi Research and Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Research and Marketing Group.{{cite web|title=Al Jamila Fact|publisher=Magazines About|access-date=24 May 2012

|url=http://www.magazinesabout.co.uk/magazines/view/Al+Jamila|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514052543/http://magazinesabout.co.uk/magazines/view/Al+Jamila|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 May 2012}} The company also owns other magazines such as Sayidaty, The Majalla, Urdu Magazine and Hia as well as newspapers such as Arab News, Al Eqtisadiah, Urdu News and Asharq al Awsat.{{cite journal|title=Medıa personalıty of the year; AMF honours Saudı Prınce Faısal|journal=MEPA Monthly Bulletin|date=March 2009|volume=31

|issue=31|url=http://www.mepa.cc/Pdf/en/mb_march2009.pdf}}

As of 2013 Mohammed Fahad Al Harthi was the editor-in-chief of the magazine, who had been in this post since 2004.{{cite web|title=Mohammed Fahad Alharthi|url=http://www.wan-ifra.org/events/speakers/mohammed-fahad-alharthi

|work=WAN IFRA|access-date=26 February 2013}}{{cite web|title=Who we are |url=http://www.sppc.com.sa/Templates/SRMG/InternalTemplate_en.aspx?PostingId=418|work=SRMG|access-date=28 September 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324171218/http://www.sppc.com.sa/Templates/SRMG/InternalTemplate_en.aspx?PostingId=418|archive-date=24 March 2014}} He is also editor-in-chief of Sayidaty.

Content

Al Jamila mainly involves news on beauty and health, and offers its readers in-depth articles about the latest make-up looks, beauty products and treatments as well as news on health and fitness.{{cite web

|title=Saudi Research and Marketing Group|url=http://mec.biz/term/uploads/SRMG_03112009.pdf|publisher=Global Investment House|access-date=28 May 2012|date=November 2009}}{{cite web|title=SRPC Publications |url=http://www.sppc.com.sa/Templates/SRMG/InternalTemplate.aspx?PostingId=276|work=SRMG|access-date=28 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116083752/http://www.sppc.com.sa/Templates/SRMG/InternalTemplate.aspx?PostingId=276|archive-date=16 January 2013 }}

Readership

It was reported by Al Khaleejiah in 2011 that Al Jamila is read 89.7% by females and 10.3% by males. It was further indicated that female readers of the magazine are those between 18 and 29 years old.{{cite web|title=Al Jamila|url=http://www.alkhaleejiah.com/sites/default/files/al_jamila_eng_2011.pdf|work=Al Khaleejiah|access-date=28 May 2012}}{{dead link|date=June 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} Therefore, the target audience of the magazine is teenagers and young adult women in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.{{cite web|title=The Beauty and Glamour Magazine|url=http://www.alkhaleejiah.com/print-publications/al-jamila|publisher=Al Khaleejiah|access-date=19 August 2012|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714063135/http://alkhaleejiah.com/print-publications/al-jamila|url-status=dead}}