Anis Al-Jalis

Anis Al-Jalis (meaning the Sociable Companion in English) was a monthly women's magazine published in Alexandria from 1898 to 1907.^[1] Its founder and editor was Alexandra Avierino, a British and Greek female writer who was born in Lebanon and spent most of her career life in Egypt.^[2][1][3] Though some contributors were women, including Esther Moyal,^[4] most were men.^[5] The magazine mostly covered articles on home economics, child-rearing practices, fashion and home decoration.^[6] At the initial phase Anis Al-Jalis targeted bourgeois women, but later it addressed all society categories including rural women, creating sections for them.^[7]

References

1. "Anis Al-Jalis Magazine". Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. 2004.
2. https://www.hindawi.org/contributors/83617395/
3. Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul; Hasna Reda-Mekdashi (2008). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-977-416-146-9.
4. Reuven Snir (2007). ""Mosaic Arabs" between Total and Conditioned Arabization: The Participation of Jews in Arabic Press and Journalism in Muslim Societies during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 27 (2): 266. doi:10.1080/13602000701536208.
5. Marilyn Booth (2001). May Her Likes be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt. University of California Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-520-92521-2.
6. Sonia Dabbous (2004). "'Till I Become a Minister': Women's Rights and Women's Journalism in pre-1952 Egypt". In Naomi Sakr (ed.). Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression. London: I.B.Tauris. pp. 41–42. doi:10.5040/9780755604838.ch-003. ISBN 978-1-85043-545-7.
7. Fruma Zachs (2014). "Cross-Glocalization: Syrian Women Immigrants and the Founding of Women's Magazines in Egypt". Middle Eastern Studies. 50 (3): 361. doi:10.1080/00263206.2013.863757.