Largely the project of its editor Sayyid Karim, Majallat al-Imarah presented contemporary architecture in pre-war and post-war Cairo, bilingually in Arabic and English, across more than a decade of publication.
The journal ran from 1939 to 1950, with a gap in 1943–1944. It was later continued under the title "Majallat al-Imarah wa-al-Funun" (The Magazine of Architecture and the Arts) between 1952 and 1959. The most comprehensive surviving set of issues is held by the Fine Arts Library of Harvard College Library, digitised and made available through Archnet.
This archive currently holds 17 issues from the journal's first three years (1939–1941). Issues from 1942 onward, and the later "Majallat al-Imarah wa-al-Funun" run (1952–1959), are not yet digitised here.
69 buildings and projects have been extracted from the issues; a selection is listed here, each opening the issue at its page. See all 69 projects in the project directory.
Architect; founded and largely drove the magazine as his own project across its first eleven-year run, presenting contemporary Cairo architecture to a bilingual readership.
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