Arab Observer

{{italic title}} 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<ref>{{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}}</ref> and supported the Nasser's government.<ref>{{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/}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

Its most famous contributor was Maya Angelou, who worked as an editor while she was in Cairo.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Mahmoud Amr is the former editor-in-chief of the magazine.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==See also== * List of magazines in Egypt

==References== {{Reflist}}

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