El Fagr
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El Fagr | |
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Type | Weekly newspaper |
Format | Broadsheet |
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Owner | {{{owners}}} |
Editor | Adel Hammouda |
Founded | June 4, 2005 |
Language | Arabic |
Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
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Website: Official website |
For other uses, see Al-Fajr.
El Fagr (also Al Fagr, Al Fager, or classical Arabic al-Fajr الفجر "The dawn") is an Egyptian independent newsweekly, based in Cairo. It launched in June 2005. Its editor is Adel Hammouda.
In its 21st edition, dated October 17, 2005, El Fagr was the first newspaper worldwide to republish on its front page (one cartoon) and page 17, a total of six cartoons portraying the Islamic Prophet Muhammad of twelve cartoons originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. These twelve cartoons gave rise to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
[edit] External links
- Official website (Arabic)
- [1] [2] – Reproductions of 17 October 2005 edition
- Article in Jyllands-Posten concerning the El Fagr republication (Danish)
- Assyrian International News Agency commentary on the El Fagr republication