About the website

In 2001 The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) of Cairo initiated a project entitled Armenia and Armenians in the Arab Press from 1876 to 1923.

The aim of this project was to document an important era of the Armenian people’s modern & contemporary history based on news and articles published in Egyptian and Arabic publications existing in the archives of the Egyptian National Library.

AGBU Cairo entrusted this task to a group of researchers headed by Dr. Mohamed Refaat Al Imam, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Egypt’s Damanhour University, to scan through all the Arabic publications archived in the Egyptian National Library. The number of the publications and journals which were photocopied and utilized reached 383 periodicals existing during the above mentioned period.

The research resulted in the obtainment of 36000 texts written in the Egyptian and Arab press about Armenia and Armenians during the period 1876 to 1923.

253 publications were utilized in this website’s search engine and in the books covering 7 periods which will be consequently published. The rest of the archived publications will be exploited in the near future to document the role of eminent Armenians in Egypt’s modern history. These books will also be available for download from the books section of this website once published.

With the launch of this website, the search engine of this website will be covering the period of 1876 to 1893. The ongoing upload process of these documents will be continued until the full availability of the 36000 texts online.

A section is also introduced in this website: The Genocide, 100 years later, to document the news and publications written about the Armenian Genocide with the commemoration of its Centennial in 2015.