[5] Fares Nimr served as the editor-in-chief of Al Muqattam from its start to his death in 1951[2] and also edited its political content.
[6] Muhammad Al Muwaylihi's work entitled Ma Hunalik was first published in the paper and serialized between 28 June 1895 and 8 February 1896.
[12] In 1911 Nissim Malul, a Zionist activist, began to work as the correspondent of Al Muqattam in Haifa.
[12][13] The paper had a regular column on Palestine of which the editor was anonymous, and the articles were signed as “senior Zionist”.
[14] Following the end of the British rule in Egypt in 1914, Al Muqattam became known for its high-quality journalism and reformist stance.
[15] Nimr's son-in-law and British embassy official Sir Walter Smart published many pan-Arabist articles in the paper from the 1930s.
[16] The paper was among the publications which celebrated the termination of the construction of the Suez Canal Zone Barracks in March 1939 which had been demanded by the British authorities.