# Arab Observer

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The '''''Arab Observer''''' was an [English-language](/source/English_language) weekly news magazine published in [Cairo](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Gamal_Abdel_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/List_of_magazines_in_Egypt)

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