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''Hawaa'' (
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: ''Eve'') is a weekly
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published in
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, Egypt. The magazine is modelled by other women's magazines in the
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. It was Egypt's first women's magazine, founded in 1954.


History and profile

''Hawaa'' was first published in 1954. The founder was Amina Al Said, an Egyptian journalist and
feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
. The publisher is Dar Al Hilal. ''Hawaa'' is published weekly and features news on health and beauty, family affairs, fashion, adornment and home management using a feminist perspective. In the 1970s it featured
short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...
written by both Egyptian and Western authors. The magazine targets not only women but also men. Amina Al Said, its founder, was the first
editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...
of the weekly and served in the post from its inception in 1954 to 1969. She was the first female editor-in-chief and the first female chair of a publishing house, namely, Dar Al Hilal, in Egypt. She published a weekly column in ''Hawaa'' until her death in 1995. Iqbal Baraka was the long-term editor-in-chief of the magazine who was appointed to the post in July 1993. On 28 June 2014 Magda Mahmoud became the editor-in-chief of the magazine. Egyptian intellectual Latifa al-Zayyat was the contributor of ''Hawaa'' from 1965 to 1968.


Circulation

''Hawaa'' sold 175,000 copies in 1954. Its circulation was 200,000 copies before 1967 and was about 175,000 copies in the period between 1967 and 1970. The circulation of the magazine in 2000 was 150,000 copies. The magazine also enjoyed high circulation levels abroad and had the largest foreign circulation in 1989.


See also

*
List of magazines in Egypt The history of magazines in Egypt is long, dating back to the 1890s. The earliest magazines included women's magazines as well as those published in Turkish language, Turkish from 1828 to 1947. In 1919 there were nearly more than thirty women's ma ...


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