Al-Fajr (literary magazine)

The Egyptian literary magazine al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر; English: The Dawn) was published weekly in Cairo between 8 January 1925 and 31 January 1927. Ahmed Khairi Sa'id was editor-in-chief.

A group of young writers of the al-Madrasa al-Haditha ("Modernist School"), including Mahmoud Taymour (1894 -1973), Mahmoud Tahir Laasheen (1894-1954), Yahya Haqqi (1905-1993) and Husayn Fawzy (1900-1988), are considered to be the founders of the magazine.O. A. (o. J.): Development of Arabic Short Story. , Retrieved 29 April 2019. Some of them increased their popularity inside and outside of Egypt by publishing their works in al-Fajr.

Generally, the declared aim of the journal was reaching the renaissance of the Egyptian literary scene and in particular "intellectual independence".Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski (1986). Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930. New York und Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 125.

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