''Majid'' ( ar, ماجد) is a pan-
Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
anthology and children's magazine published in
Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia ( The Middle East). It is located at t ...
by the
Abu Dhabi Media Company. It was first issued on 28 February 1979.
History and profile
''Majid'' has been in circulation and has been released on a weekly basis since 28 February 1979 until the end of 2019. From the beginning of 2020 it is scheduled to be issued monthly. ''Majid'' magazine launched its website in 2009
and launched its TV channel in 2015.
''Majid'' is widely read in most
Arab state
The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western As ...
s, and had a weekly distribution of 175,000 as of 2005. One of the series in ''Majid'' is ''Kaslan Jiddan'' (كسلان جداً lit. Very Lazy), a story of a boy named Kaslan, who tries to act like an adult and finds himself in conflicts because of it.
[Pilcher, Tim and Brad Brooks. (Foreword: Dave Gibbons). ''The Essential Guide to World Comics''. '' Collins and Brown''. 2005. pp. 302-303.]
Characters
* Popular American comic strip ''
Nancy'' was translated in the magazine for many years as ''The Lovely Mouza and Her Brother Rashoud'' ( ar, موزة الحبوبة وشقيقها رشود).
References
External links
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1979 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Arabic-language magazines
Comics anthologies
Children's magazines published in the United Arab Emirates
Magazines established in 1979
Mass media in Abu Dhabi
1979 comics debuts
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