Arab Observer
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The Arab Observer was an English-language weekly news magazine published in Cairo, Egypt, between 1960 and 1966.
History and profile
The Arab Observer was founded by Zain Nagati in 1960. At the time, it was one of the only English-language publications from the Middle East. Although not officially a state organ, it generally followed the political orthodoxy of the time{{cite book|author=Maya Angelou
|title=The Heart of a Woman|isbn=978-0-7481-2236-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBQz9gT_eQUC&pg=PT267|year=2010|publisher=Little Brown Book Group|page=267}} and supported the Nasser's government.{{cite journal|author=Gerasimos Tsourapas
|title=Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-'Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967|journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies|year=2016|volume=43|issue=3|page=340|doi=10.1080/13530194.2015.1102708|s2cid=159943632 |url=https://osf.io/8u5gw/}}{{cite journal|author=Ali A. Mazrui|title=Africa and the Egyptian's Four Circles|journal=African Affairs|date=April 1964|volume=63|issue=251|page=134|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095199}}
Its most famous contributor was Maya Angelou, who worked as an editor while she was in Cairo.{{cite web|title=A Celebration of Rising "Joy"!|url=http://mayaangelou.wfu.edu/files/maya-angelou-program1.pdf|publisher=WFU|access-date=5 October 2014}} Mahmoud Amr is the former editor-in-chief of the magazine.{{cite book|title=Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHCQBAFMwawC&pg=PA106|year=2007|publisher=Publitec Publications|isbn=978-3-11-093004-7|page=106|location=Beirut}}
See also
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Category:1960 establishments in Egypt
Category:1966 disestablishments in Egypt
Category:Defunct political magazines published in Egypt
Category:English-language magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1960
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1966
Category:Magazines published in Cairo
Category:Weekly magazines published in Egypt
Category:Weekly news magazines
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