Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya

In fact, an employee in the Finance Bureau was killed by his son to keep the latter from getting his salary garnished over paternal subscription debt.

[6] The Pasha made sure that the paper was published and distributed regularly, even on holidays,[9] together with rations of meat, rice, and ghee.

[6] The first issue of Waqa'i' Misr (وقايع مصر), published on December 3, 1828, featured four pages 38 centimetres (15 in) long with a Turkish column translated into Arabic.

[12] The distinctive original letterhead at first featured a potted plant symbolizing the cotton tree left of the masthead until issue 18, when it was replaced with a pyramid in front of the Sun.

Among the luminaries on Abduh's staff were independence pioneer Saad Zaghloul[13] and Ibrahim Al-Helbawi, the first president of the Egypt Bar Association.

[6] In 1911, Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya returned to government control, accompanied by a new masthead with a crown centered on the flag of Egypt and shifting advertisements and subscription guides from the left and right margins to the last page.

[6] Emile Forgé was appointed editor of Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya on January 17, 1924, during a time of renewed parliamentary vigor under King Fuad I.

Hassan Ali Kalwa Bey, Forgé's successor, sometimes published the text in green against a frame with calligraphic inscriptions, including a famed royal decree on the birth of King Fuad II.

The paper published all royal orders, decrees, Cabinet decisions, and internal cases without editorial independence, though it did not mention the Revolution of July 23, 1952 as it was going on.