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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Al-Fagr for Printing and Publishing Inc. |
| Editor | Manal Lashin |
| Founded | 3 June 2005 |
| Language | Arabic |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Website | Official website |
El Fagr (IPA: [elˈfæɡɾ]; also Al Fagr, Arabic: الفجر "The dawn") is an Egyptian independent weekly newspaper, based in Cairo.
El Fagr was first published on 3 June 2005. The paper is part of Al-Fagr for Printing and Publishing Inc. The weekly, published on Thursdays, is a sensationalist publication.
Hassan Amr is one of the former editors of the paper. As of 2013 Manal Lashin was the editor-in-chief of the weekly.
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. However, these caricatures received little attention in Egypt and the paper was not banned due to its reprints of the caricatures.
In March 2006 Amira Malsh, a journalist working for El Fagr, was sentenced to a year in prison with hard labor because of libeling a judge in an article published in the paper.
In 2013 the weekly started an award in the memory of Al Husseiny Abu Deif, a journalist who died in December 2012 during clashes among the demonstrators.
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