''Al Majalla Al Jadida'' (

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: الجديدة المجلة; ''The New Magazine'') was an Arabic language socialist and

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cultural and literary magazine which existed between 1929 and 1944 with a two-year interruption. Being an early avant-garde magazine in the

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it is one of two magazines started by

Salama Moussa Salama Moussa (or Musa; 1887 – 4 August 1958) ( ar, سلامه موسى , ) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist. Salama Moussa was an avowed secularist, he introduced the writings of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud to ...

. The other one was '' Al Mustaqbal'' which was launched in 1914.

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''Al Majalla Al Jadida'' was established by Salama Moussa in Cairo in 1929. The magazine was closed down in 1931, but its publication was restarted in 1933. In 1942 Moussa's ownership of the title ended, and his friend artist and art critic

Ramses Younan Ramses Younan (رمسيس يونان ; Minya, 1913 – Cairo, 1966), was an Egyptian painter and writer. He work is most commonly associated with the Art and Liberty Group, a Cairo-based surrealist collective of artists, writers, intellectuals an ...

became its owner and publisher to save it from the censorship. However, the magazine ceased publication in 1944 when it was banned by the Egyptian authorities due to its leftist political stance. ''Al Majalla Al Jadida'' was published on a monthly basis. The magazine was consisted of 30 pages which were printed on a A5-sized paper. It acted as a platform to reproduce and transmit the Western cultural elements in the Egyptian society. It adopted the

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secular thinking and

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in developing a future projection for Egypt. The readers of the magazine were presented the

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and

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in detail. ''Al Majalla Al Jadida'' featured scientific discussions, philosophical and avant-garde literary and artistic writings. Egyptian novelist

Naguib Mahfuz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...

published his work for the first time in the magazine. As of 1930 Husayn Fawzi was one of the contributors who published articles on the discussions about

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, East and West, Egyptianism and

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. ''

Al Tatawwur ''Al Tatawwur'' (Arabic: تطور; ''The Development'') was an Arabic language literary and cultural magazine published in Egypt in the period January–July 1940. It was the first avant-garde, surrealist and Marxist-libertarian publication in t ...

'' which was published for a short time in 1940 was modelled on ''Al Majalla Al Jadida''.

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