Although the magazine was short-lived, it is one of the sources that laid the basis of the regime change in Egypt in 1952.
[1][2] The founders and contributors of the magazine were called the Al Fajr Al Jadid group and included Ahmad Sadiq Saad, Raymond Duwayk, Yusuf Darwish and Ahmad Rushdi Salih who was the editor-in-chief of the magazine.
[4] The magazine aimed at producing a version of the leftist views and practices specific to Egypt.
[3][5] The frequent topics featured in the magazine were social issues such as poverty, underdevelopment and agrarian reform.
[7] Al Fajr Al Jadid was distributed to nearly all Arab countries and enjoyed support and financial assistance of the Marxist organizations based in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.