The Arabic-language satirical weekly al-Fukaha (Arabic: الفكاهة; DMG: al-Fukāha; English: "Humour" or "Joke") was published in Cairo between 1926 and 1933. The famous publishing house Dar al-Hilal edited seven volumes with a total of 369 issues.Al-Fukaha. 1926.Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, Retrieved 29 April 2019. The 48-page periodical largely started with a caricatural cover picture.Walter Armbrust: What Would Sayyid Qutb Say? In: Walter Armbrust (ed.): Culture Wars. The Arabic Music Video Controversy and other studies in satellite broadcasting in the Arab and Islamic world. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo/New York 2006, pp. 18–29. A large range of caricatures, comics and illustrations supplemented the satirical texts whereby the style was reminiscent of the New Yorker art and Pin-Up-Art of that time.Al-Fokaha: An Early Egyptian Humor Magazine. In: Oum Cartoon. 2015, last accessed on 29 April 2019. On the one hand the journals satire targeted the Cairo daily life, on the other hand the international social scene.Asher Kohn: The Syrian cartoonists who live and die by their pens. In: Roads & Kingdoms. 20 November 2015, last accessed on 29 April 2019. In 1933 Dar al-Hilal combined both journals al-Fukaha and al-Kawakib to the satire magazine Al-Ithnayn (meaning "The Two" in English).Tarik Sabry: Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field. I.B. Tauris, London/New York 2012, p. 44.
References