The Arabic-language
satirical weekly al-Fukaha (
Arabic: الفكاهة;
DMG: al-Fukāha;
English: "Humour" or "Joke") was published in Cairo between 1926 and 1933.[1] The famous publishing house
Dar al-Hilal edited seven volumes with a total of 369 issues.[2][3] The 48-page periodical largely started with a caricatural cover picture.[4][5] A large range of
caricatures,
comics and
illustrations supplemented the satirical texts whereby the style was reminiscent of the New Yorker art and Pin-Up-Art of that time.[6] On the one hand the journals satire targeted the Cairo daily life, on the other hand the international social scene.[7] In 1933 Dar al-Hilal combined both journals al-Fukaha and al-Kawakib to the satire magazine Al-Ithnayn (meaning "The Two" in English).[8]
^Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, Retrieved 29 April 2019.
^Walter Armbrust: What Would Sayyid Qutb Say? In: Walter Armbrust (ed.): Culture Wars. The Arabic Music Video Controversy and other studies in satellite broadcasting in the Arab and Islamic world. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo/New York 2006, pp. 18–29.
^Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, Retrieved 29 April 2019.
^Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, last accessed on 29 April 2019.
^Asher Kohn: The Syrian cartoonists who live and die by their pens. In: Roads & Kingdoms. 20 November 2015, last accessed on 29 April 2019.
^Tarik Sabry: Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field. I.B. Tauris, London/New York 2012, p. 44.
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