''Sayidaty'' (

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سيدتي ''Sayyidatī'', meaning ''My Lady'' in English) is a weekly Arabic and a monthly English

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published in both

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and

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and distributed throughout

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and America.

History

''Sayidaty'' was founded by Hisham Hafiz and his brother Muhammed Hafiz in London. Later, it was started in

in March 1981. The magazine was relocated from London to

in 2005. The English edition was launched in 2007.(24 December 2007)
First issue of Sayidaty magazine in English releases in Riyadh
''AMEinfo'', Retrieved 13 December 2010 Hala Al Nasser, who is current editor-in-chief of ''

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'', is one of the magazine's former editors. As of 2013 Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi was the editor-in-chief of the magazine who appointed to the post in 2004. As of 2010 Lebanese journalist Hadia Said was the cultural editor of the magazine. End of 2020 Lama Alshethri was the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

Ownership

''Sayidaty'' is one of the magazines published by Saudi Research and Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG). SRMG also owns other magazines such as '' Al Jamila'', ''

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'', ''Bassim'', ''Urdu Magazine'' and '' Hia'' as well as newspapers such as '' Arab News'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

Asharq al Awsat ''Asharq Al-Awsat'' ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, Aš-Šarq al-ʾAwsaṭ, meaning "The Middle East") is an Arabic international newspaper headquartered in London. A pioneer of the "off-shore" model in the Arabic press, the paper is often noted f ...

''.

''Sayidaty'', the first and only Pan Arab women weekly, provides professional and quality reading, making it the most powerful advertising vehicle among women's magazine in Saudi Arabia and the

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region. The magazine mostly covers a wide range of topics favoured by the modern Arab women, from beauty and fashion to social and family life. In June 2013 it was expanded to cover two new sections: one on

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, and another for

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and college students.

Target readership and circulation

The magazine is said to target primarily families, focusing on conscious housewives. ''Sayidaty'', along with ''

Al Yamamah Al-Yamama ( ar, اليَمامَة, al-Yamāma) is a historical region in the southeastern Najd in modern-day Saudi Arabia, or sometimes more specifically, the now-extinct ancient village of Jaww al-Yamamah, near al-Kharj, after which the rest ...

'' and ''

'', is among popular magazines in Saudi Arabia. The circulation of the magazine at the end of the 1990s was 140,000 copies per issue. In April 2014, its online version received 39 million hits according to the reports by the editor-in-chief.

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History

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