Abstract

The article is an account of the history of the Government of Egypt’s Press. With two-hundred year of service, this press stands as one of the oldest and largest presses in the Near East. The article outlines the purpose of its establishment and places the press within a larger framework of the plan to modernize Egypt and the history of Arabic printing in Egypt, as well as its link to Italy. With European training and domestic hands, and facing some challenges, the press has played an important role in military publications first, and later in government publications from the start of its production in 1822 until today. Unlike in Europe, the printing of religious texts by the press was proscriptive. An analysis of some of the early works printed by the press shades some light on the reasons behind the prohibition of the printing of books with religious contexts.

摘要

这篇文章是对埃及新闻政府历史的描述。该印刷机已有200年的服务历史，是近东地区最古老，规模最大的印刷机之一。本文概述了其建立的目的，并将新闻界置于埃及现代化计划和埃及阿拉伯印刷史及其与意大利的联系的更大框架中。从1822年开始生产到今天，在欧洲的培​​训和国内的支持下，新闻界首先在军事出版物中扮演着重要角色，随后在政府出版物中扮演着重要角色。与欧洲不同，新闻界对宗教文本的印刷是规定性的。