El Fagr
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor | Adel Hammouda |
| Founded | 4 June 2005 |
| Language | Arabic |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Official website | Official website |
El Fagr (IPA: [elˈfæɡɾ]; also Al Fagr, Arabic: الفجر "The dawn") is an Egyptian independent newsweekly, based in Cairo. It was launched in June 2005. Its editor is Adel Hammouda.
In its 21st edition, dated 17 October 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.
External links
- – Reproductions of 17 October 2005 edition
- Assyrian International News Agency commentary on the El Fagr republication
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