The Arabic-language journal ''Al-Balagh al-Usbuʿi'' (

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: البلاغ الاسبوعی;

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: al-Balāġ al-Usbūʿī; English: "The Weekly News") was published weekly in

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, Egypt, between 1926 and 1930. It was the weekly edition of the newspaper '' Al Balagh''. The first issue of the journal appeared in November 1926. Four volumes with a total of 150 editions were published. Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad (1889-1964), the founder, was a well-known Egyptian writer,

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and

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who appointed Abdul Qadir Hamzah as

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of the journal.Talhami, Ghada Hashem. (2007). ''Palestine in the Egyptian Press: From Al-Ahram to Al-Ahali''. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham/Boulder, pp. 94, 181. In addition to critical political articles, numerous

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and

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were published in the magazine. Among well-known authors Mohammed Abd al-Mu'ti al-Hamshari (1908-1938) gained popularity through his poetry. Nabawiyya Mousa Badawia (1886-1951), a teacher and pioneer among Egyptian women's rights activists of the 20th century, designed a special page for women with

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themes and discourses of Egypt from that time.Badran, Margot. (1980). The Feminist Vision in the Writings of Three Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Women. In: ''Bulletin'' (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies). 15(1/2), pp. 11–20, here: 13. ''Al-Balagh al-Usbuʿi'' was also regarded as a supporter of the

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, therefore its publication was probably discontinued in 1930.

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