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Masri Effendi ( مصري أفندي, Mr. Egyptian in Arabic) was a national personification of the Kingdom of Egypt created by Alexander Saroukhan for Ruz al Yusuf in 1930. Masri Effendi is a short man with a fez and sibha (prayer beads) along with Western trousers and a jacket glasses, often giving some witty remark over the political situation as a government bureaucract. He represented the effendi, the professional middle class of Egypt during its liberal period. He fell out of favor by the 1952 Egyptian revolution, as his character became archaic for modern Egypt.
History
Masri Effendi was created by Ruz al Yusuf to rival al-Kashkul, a competitor satirical newspaper. Masri Effendi was meant to represent the modern Egyptian man who dressed in western jackets and pants but still wore his fez and carried his prayer beads with pride. The term 'effendi' originally referred to an old Ottoman title, evolved to mean the new nationally conscious society of lawyers, university graduates and small merchants. Later on, Masri Effendi would 'write' weekly columns himself, as Ruz al Yusuf presented him was the real editor of the newspaper. Saroukhan would later draw Masri Effendi in Akher Sa'a, another popular satirical magazine.
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References
Sources
Zdafee, Keren (2020). "Between Imagined and 'real': Sarukhan's Al-masri Effendi Cartoons in the First Half of the 1930s". In Scully, Richard; Varnava, Andrekos (eds.). Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art. Manchester University Press. doi:10.7765/9781526142955.00015. ISBN 9781526142948.
External links
Ākhir sāʼah - Magazine Collection mostly complete archives of Akher Sa'a from 1935 to 1939 by the American University of Cairo