''Sayidaty'' ( Arabic سيدتي ''Sayyidatī'', meaning ''My Lady'' in English) is a weekly Arabic and a monthly English women's magazine published in both Riyadh and Beirut and distributed throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and

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History

''Sayidaty'' was founded by

Hisham Hafiz Hisham Ali Hafiz (28 April 1931 - 26 February 2006) was a Saudi Arabian newspaper publisher and author. He is best known for co-founding '' Arab News'' and his Saudi Research and Publishing Company published 16 newspapers and magazines at the t ...

and his brother Muhammed Hafiz in London. Later, it was started in Riyadh in March 1981. The magazine was relocated from London to Riyadh in 2005. The English edition was launched in 2007.(24 December 2007)
First issue of Sayidaty magazine in English releases in Riyadh
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was the editor-in-chief of the magazine who appointed to the post in 2004. As of 2010

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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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''.

''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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Target readership and circulation

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

Ownership

Contents

Target readership and circulation

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