The Egyptian

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''al-Fajr'' (

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: الفجر;

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: ''al-Faǧr'';

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: ''The Dawn'') was published weekly in

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between 8 January 1925 and 31 January 1927. Ahmed Khairi Sa'id was editor-in-chief. A group of young writers of the ''al-Madrasa al-Haditha'' ("Modernist School"), including Mahmoud Taymour (1894 -1973), Mahmoud Tahir Laasheen (1894-1954), Yahya Haqqi (1905-1993) and Husayn Fawzy (1900-1988), are considered to be the founders of the magazine. Some of them increased their popularity inside and outside of Egypt by publishing their works in ''al-Fajr''. Generally, the declared aim of the journal was reaching the renaissance of the Egyptian literary scene and in particular "intellectual independence".Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski (1986). ''Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930''. New York und Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 125.

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