Reading Magazines Research Articles

Association Between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018

Many women justify intimate partner violence (IPV), resulting in adverse health outcomes. This study investigates the relationship between household ownership of information and communication technologies (ICTs), along with the frequency of listening to the radio and watching television with women’s attitudes towards IPV in Bangladesh. The cross-sectional study analyzed a weighted sample of 20,032 women and used a multivariable logistic regression analysis to determine the association between predictor variables and outcome variables. The results showed that 19.47% of women justified wife beating for at least one reason. We found that household ownership of computers (AOR = 0.73 [95% CI = 0.57, 0.95]), women in households with three ICTs (AOR = 0.67 [95% CI = 0.47, 0.96]), and women who watched television at least once a week (AOR = 0.85 [95% CI = 0.74, 0.97]) were associated with decreased odds of justifying wife beating for at least one reason after adjustment for the frequency of reading newspaper or magazine, age, wealth, education, religion, and type of place of residence. The study suggests that not all ICTs affect women’s attitudes toward IPV equally. Computers and television were more influential than other ICTs. This finding suggests that awareness-building and educational programs targeted towards women via computer and television may deliver better outcomes about gender norms.

The Use of Incidental Vocabulary Learning Strategies Among High and Low Proficiency Year 6 ESL Learners

Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLSs) are widely implemented in the learning of English as a second language (ESL). Hence, VLSs are helpful in aiding learners to develop their vocabulary effectively, not only in the classroom but also out-of-classroom, according to the learners' needs. This study aims to investigate the use of vocabulary learning strategies in incidental learning among high and low proficiency Year 6 ESL learners. The sample of this study are 30 Year 6 ESL learners from a primary government school in Bandar Baru Bangi. A mixed method was employed, and purposive sampling was used for this study. Data was collected through a 26-item questionnaire based on Schmitt’s Taxonomy of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Questionnaire (VLSQ) and semi-structured interviews. The findings indicate that high proficiency learners “watch English media” the most and the “use of flashcards” as the least favoured. In contrast, low proficiency learners prefer “asking parents or family members for the meaning of words” and “reading English newspaper, magazines and books” the least. Although no significant differences were found in overall strategy use between high and low proficiency groups, metacognitive strategies were employed significantly more by high proficiency learners. Both high and low proficiency Year 6 ESL learners also perceive technology tools and multimedia as effective for incidental learning by using YouTube, social media platform, online games, use of sub-titles and digital dictionaries. Further research on a larger scale among primary school learners is recommended to inform teachers about the application of vocabulary learning strategies, particularly in incidental learning.

Al Jinās Dan Al Saja’ Fii Kitāb Washāya Al Abā Li Al Abnā

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The study of rhetoric is one of the sciences that studies how to process words or sentences in the Arabic language that are beautiful because they have clear meanings, and the style of the language used must be in accordance with the situation and conditions. There are three divisions in rhetoric: the science of meanings, the science of eloquence, and the science of ingenuity. In the science of ingenuity, the researcher chose alliteration and assonance. The aims of this study are: 1.Definition How many Jinas and Sajak in the book of commandments of fathers to children. 2.Definition of the types of Jinas and Sajak in the book Fathers' Commandments to Sons. The library study is based on reading books, magazines, or other research sources to collect data, and the researcher needs deep thinking to get a good research result, then she reads the books and continues to analyze the books in terms of rhetoric.</span></p>

Life criticism and De Quincey's ethical concern over the aestheticiability of murder

AbstractThe self‐reflexive tendency in De Quincey's seemingly Kantian aestheticization of murder allows some leeway in deciphering his underlying ethical concerns. As “On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth” shows, De Quincey engages in a special kind of life writing that can be termed “life criticism,” which is not naively referential but revelatory, translating the autobiographical records of memories, experiences, and emotions into mediatory possibilities for argumentative assessments of literary and aesthetic questions. James Wood's critiques function as a compelling touchstone of De Quincey's life criticism, exhibiting how self‐referential episodes, as both the starting and end points for literary criticism, can be incorporated into serious and illuminating theoretical interrogations. Through the new prism of De Quincey's habitual mode of life criticism, his aesthetics of murder can be interpreted as a meta‐reflection upon his literary experiences with Westmorland Gazette and Blackwood's Magazine. His awareness of the facile aestheticiability of murder in the periodical press has an obvious moral implication: it shows his self‐reflexive concern over the commercialized public taste that makes him torn between insisting upon classical highbrow culture and contributing sensational magazine reading matter.

Neural tracking of speech acoustics in noise is coupled with lexical predictability as estimated by large language models.

Adults heard recordings of two spatially separated speakers reading newspaper and magazine articles. They were asked to listen to one of them and ignore the other, and EEG was recorded to assess their neural processing. Machine learning extracted neural sources that tracked the target and distractor speakers at three levels: the acoustic envelope of speech (delta- and theta-band modulations), lexical frequency for individual words, and the contextual predictability of individual words estimated by GPT-4 and earlier lexical models. To provide a broader view of speech perception, half of the subjects completed a simultaneous visual task, and the listeners included both native and non-native English speakers. Distinct neural components were extracted for these levels of auditory and lexical processing, demonstrating that native English speakers had greater target-distractor separation compared to non-native English speakers on most measures, and that lexical processing was reduced by the visual task. Moreover, there was a novel interaction of lexical predictability and frequency with auditory processing; acoustic tracking was stronger for lexically harder words, suggesting that people listened harder to the acoustics when needed for lexical selection. This demonstrates that speech perception is not simply a feedforward process from acoustic processing to the lexicon. Rather, the adaptable context-sensitive processing long known to occur at a lexical level has broader consequences for perception, coupling with the acoustic tracking of individual speakers in noise.Significance Statement In challenging listening conditions, people use focused attention to help understand individual talkers and ignore others, which changes their neural processing for speech at auditory through lexical levels. However, lexical processing for natural materials (e.g., conversations, audiobooks) has been difficult to measure, because of limitations of tools to estimate the predictability of individual words in longer discourses. The present investigation uses a contemporary large language model, GPT-4, to estimate word predictability, and demonstrates that listeners make online adaptations to their auditory neural processing in accord with these predictions; neural activity more closely tracks the acoustics of the target talker when words are less predictable from the context.

Factors Influencing Interest in Dive Tourism on Weh Island

Indonesia's diving tourism ranks second among the World's Best Diving Destinations, according to Scuba Diving magazine readers' choices in 2019. Weh Island, in particular, is noted for its significant potential in diving tourism. This study aims to empirically evaluate the impact of attraction, facilities, and accessibility on diving interest at Weh Island. The research targeted individuals with diving certifications, using purposive sampling to gather responses from 97 participants. A quantitative approach was employed, utilizing SmartPLS software for analysis. The results indicate that attraction has a direct positive effect on diving interest, with a significance value of 0.001 (<0.05), suggesting that an increase in attraction leads to a 42.4% rise in visiting interest. Similarly, facilities also have a direct positive effect on diving interest, with a significance value of 0.000 (<0.05), implying that improved facilities result in a 35.3% increase in visiting interest. The implications of this study highlight the important role of attractions and facilities in increasing diving interest. This implies that improving these factors can significantly increase tourist interest in Weh Island. Stakeholders in the dive tourism sector should focus on improving attractions and facilities to increase this potential and attract more divers. Further research could explore the impact of accessibility and other factors on dive tourism to provide a more comprehensive understanding of tourist interest.

A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture: Film Magazines and the Male Fan Reader

As a sociologically-oriented study, this project contributes to an archaeology of cinema fandom broadly, and early Spanish fan culture specifically, by spotlighting male readers of popular film magazines. Taking as an exploratory case study reader interactivity with the magazine Popular Film, analysis of correspondence and published photos of readers participating in reader contests demonstrates that the magazine’s cinema fan base was composed of a strikingly large proportion of readers who were male and that these were ardent enthusiasts of celebrity consumer culture. This is a notable contradistinction to the widely-held idea of the star-struck female movie fan. Methodologically, in conducting this study we reflect on the challenges of digital approaches to historical periodical research, where particular challenges are posed when working with magazines in a non-anglophone language, and when there are few baseline studies to rely on to guide and contextualize patterns picked up through strictly macro methods. We advocate for the affordances of a mixed macro-micro approach that combines distant reading with traditional textual studies of close reading. By adopting such a hybrid framework, digital methods provide new opportunities towards reconstructing profiles of magazine readerships and to unearth evidence of male movie fans in Spain.

Sociodemographic predictors of beliefs about getting HIV infection by witchcraft or supernatural means: a population-based study of 15335 Senegalese women.

To provide more insights about beliefs of witchcraft and supernatural means as causes of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among women in Senegal. We included eligible women from the demographic and health survey conducted in Senegal during the year 2017. We included 15335 women, of those 620 (4%) thought that they can get HIV through witchcraft or supernatural means. After the adjustment of all available covariates, old age, receiving primary or secondary education, higher wealth index, more frequency of listening to radio, watching television for less than once a week and reading newspaper or magazine for at least once a week were significantly associated with a reduction in the witchcraft and supernatural means beliefs (p < 0.05). Moreover, rural residence was associated with an increase in the wrong HIV beliefs (p < 0.05). We demonstrated many predictors of the wrong beliefs about getting HIV infection by witchcraft or supernatural means in the Senegalese women. Policymakers should initiate health educational programs in parallel with increasing the socioeconomic status to limit the HIV transmission. In addition, continuous monitoring of the HIV knowledge in the endemic countries is crucial to decrease HIV burden.

Undergraduate Students’ Reading Choices in the University of Benin, Nigeria

This study examined the reading choices and time spent reading of undergraduate students in the University of Benin, Nigeria. One research question and three hypotheses gave direction to the work. The study utilized the descriptive survey research design, using a questionnaire as the research instrument. A sample of 326 students were conveniently selected from four faculties and across four academic levels. Findings revealed that students generally preferred the reading of journals, newspapers, textbooks and magazines in descending order. However, comic books, non-fiction and fiction were materials less frequently read. Similarly, the amount of time students spend reading is inadequate to meet their academic and leisure reading needs. In addition, students’ reading choices did not differ by sex. However, significant differences were found in students’ reading choices by academic levels. It was recommended among other that undergraduate students should be encouraged to devote more time to reading and to read a variety of materials. Keywords: Undergraduate reading, reading choices, Reading time, Leisure reading, Academic level

Factors associated with modern contraceptive utilization among reproductive age women in Kenya; evidenced by the 2022 Kenyan demographic and health survey

BackgroundGlobally, sexual and reproductive health is a significant public health issue for women of the reproductive age group. A modern contraceptive method enables individuals and families to manage fertility by reducing unintended pregnancies, abortions, pregnancy-related morbidity, and death. A modern contraceptive method is a drug or medical treatment that prevents sexual activity from leading to pregnancy. However, there is limited reliable and updated data on factors associated with modern contraceptive utilization among reproductive-age women at the national level in Kenya. So, the major goal of this study was to evaluate factors associated with modern contraceptive utilization among women of reproductive age in Kenya at the national level, as evidenced by the 2022 Kenyan demographic and health survey.MethodsThe most recent datasets from the Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey were used for secondary data analysis. In all, 14,987 women of reproductive age participated in the investigation. Data for multivariable analysis on the factors influencing modern contraceptive utilization among Kenyan women of reproductive age can be obtained from the Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey. Finally, the odd ratio and percentages were presented along with their 95% confidence intervals.ResultThis study includes a total weighted sample of 14,987 reproductive-age women from the Kenyan demographic and health survey. Of the total contraceptive use, 90.1% of the study participants used modern contraceptives. Being married [AOR: 1.593, 95% CI (1.302, 1.948)], living in an urban area [AOR: 1.230, 95% CI (1.060, 1.428)], reading a magazine [1.002, 95% CI (0.921, 1.091)], listening to radio [AOR: 1.265, 95% CI (1.101, 1.454)], not breastfeeding [AOR: 1.296, 95% CI (1.114, 1.507), and having more than two children [AOR: 2.350, 95% CI (1.603, 3.445)] were the factors that promote modern contraceptive utilization. Conversely, having a history of terminated pregnancy [AOR: 0.767, 95% CI (0.657, 0.897), being Muslim [AOR: 0.566, 95% CI (0.418, 0.766)], and being in the 35–39 age range [AOR: 0.766, 95% CI (0.605, 0.971)] were all associated with a lower use of modern contraceptives.ConclusionCertain factors such as marriage, living in urban areas, having more than two children, having a female-led household, belonging to the middle class, reading magazines, listening to the radio, and not breastfeeding have a positive correlation with the use of modern contraceptives. Conversely, being a Muslim, aged between 35 and 39, and having a history of miscarriages are negatively correlated with the use of modern contraceptives. This indicates that addressing socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural barriers could improve the effectiveness of modern contraceptive.

Reading as Media Consumption: Modern Russian Features

In recent years, the processes of media consumption have exposed a significant transformation. The place of reading in its structure also has changed. The article discusses the similarities between reading books and magazines as a process itself and sociocultural practice. The author suggests that book, magazine and news media consumption is in a relationship of mutual support and mutual influence. The author argues that the habit of such "long" reading is being influenced by crisis phenomena in the periodical segment: a sharp decline in readership, a decline in print circulation and difficulty in accessing. In recent years, the focus on electronic formats of publications has been the main direction in the transformation of reader practices. If e-books are considered as the same "long” reading practice, the similarity with media consumption practices on the Internet, especially in social networks, is doubtful. Despite the fact that in the Internet and social networks the audience also "reads", the intellectual ethic of consuming quick unrelated pieces of information from a variety of sources is changing this sociocultural practice itself. Soon, book reading, quite possibly, will depend on the accumulated practices of Internet surfing, Internet reading and the ability of people to deal with long texts.

Reading Interest and Proficiency of Grade 7 Learners

This descriptive-correlational study aimed to assess the reading interest and proficiency of 170 randomly selected Grade 7 learners. It utilized two sets of research instruments—the Learner’s Reading Interest Survey (RIS) and the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (PHIL-IRI). Specifically, a self-made questionnaire was used to assess the respondents’ reading interest, while the PHIL-IRI assessment tool was employed to gauge their reading proficiency. Statistical tools such as percentage, weighted mean, Linear Regression Analysis, and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the majority of learners have a favorable attitude toward reading, with a preference for social media platforms as their primary reading resource. Overall, the learners’ reading proficiency, in terms of word reading score and comprehension score, is at the “frustration” level. The data further revealed that the frequency of (a) reading fiction and books, (b) utilizing online learning tools like social media posts, and (c) watching social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok is positively and significantly related to the learners’ reading proficiency in terms of reading score. Conversely, the frequency of (a) reading magazines and (b) watching TV programs like Food Network Asia is negatively and significantly related to the learners’ reading proficiency in terms of reading score. In conclusion, this inquiry sheds light on the complex relationship between students' reading preferences and their proficiency levels. While there is a prevalent inclination towards reading among learners, a noteworthy segment demonstrates restrained enthusiasm, primarily due to time constraints. Therefore, addressing obstacles such as limited time and harnessing digital tools are essential for devising effective approaches to improve reading engagement and skill levels.

‘기억의 장소’ 관점에서 본 「옵바 생각」

In this study, the children’s song OppaSakak was premised as a place of memory.&#x0D; First, I attempted to examine the significance of OppaSakak at the time and how it was “remembered.” First, OppaSakak was significant at the time because Choi Soon-ae, who wrote the song, was a “Juvenile Writer.” Juvenile writers developed into professional writers in the process of posting as readers of newspapers and magazines. Second, it was significant because of the emergence of female subjects. At this time, the female subject referred to a woman as a writer and a woman who expressed her desire. Third, it was significant in that “Oppa” can symbolize the liberation of the country.&#x0D; OppaSakak, which was included in Eorini in November 1925, is still sufficiently popular to be called “National Children’s Song”. At this time, OppaSakak was present as a memory of a group that brought out the identity of Koreans or Koreans.

Cognitive activity, cognitive function, and neurological blood biomarkers

AbstractBackgroundMore frequent engagement in cognitive activity is associated with better cognitive function in older adults, but the mechanism of action is not fully understood. Debate remains whether increased cognitive activity provides a meaningful benefit for cognitive health or if decreased cognitive activity represents a prodrome of cognitive impairment. Neurological biomarkers provide a novel way to examine this relationship in the context of cognitive aging.MethodsWe examined the association of cognitive activity, cognitive function, and concentrations of three biomarkers in community‐dwelling participants of a longitudinal, population‐based study. Cognitive activity was measured at baseline by asking participants to rate the frequency of 7 activities: 1) Viewing television, 2) Listening to the radio, 3) Visiting a museum, 4) Playing games, such as cards, checkers, crosswords, or other puzzles or games, 5) Reading books, 6) Reading magazines, and 7) Reading newspapers. Cognitive function was measured with a battery of four tests (Mini‐Mental State Examination, Digit Symbol Test, and the immediate and delayed recall of the East Boston Test) averaged into a composite score. At baseline, we evaluated the concentration of total tau (tau), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP).ResultsThe study sample comprised 1,168 older participants, primarily non‐Hispanic Blacks (60%) and women (63%). At baseline, they were an average of 77 years old with 12.6 years of education. Mixed‐effects models showed that cognitive activity was associated with better cognitive functioning at baseline and over time. These relationships remained after each biomarker was added to the model. Over an average of 6.4 years of follow‐up, cognitive activity was associated with cognitive decline in the model with tau (estimate = 0.0123; p‐value = 0.03) and was mildly attenuated in the models with NfL, (estimate = 0.0110; p‐value = 0.06), and GFAP (estimate = 0.0111; p‐value = 0.06). Biomarkers did not modify the association between cognitive activity and cognitive function over time.ConclusionThe benefits of cognitive activity on cognition appear to be independent of biomarkers: tau, NfL, and GFAP. More frequent cognitive activity may benefit the cognitive health of older adults with a wide range of potential disease risk and presentations.

Favorite Magazines and Reading Topics Among Saudi Female College Students

This study aimed to explore the magazines and topics that female college students like to read, and the topics that senior and junior high school reading textbooks contain. Findings of questionnaire-surveys with female college students at King Saud University revealed that 77% of the students read women’s magazines; 77% like to read about fashion and make-up; 66% read articles about movies, singers, and actors; 24% read poetry; 1-4% read religious, educational, literary, political, computer and internet, and historical articles. Analysis of the reading schoolbooks showed that 10% of the reading texts are devoted to Quranic verses and Prophet Mohammed’s Hadiths; 29% are about Islamic history; 13% focus on general topics, and 11% deal with classical literature. It can be concluded that female college students like to read magazines and topics that prevail in satellite T.V. broadcasting and social media such as Instagram. Both magazines and satellite T.V. shows marginalize young people’s local culture and distract them from vital social, and political issues. There is a discrepancy between the types of topics students read at school and those they like to read at home. Therefore, this study recommends that reading texts in the school textbooks be re-selected, re-constructed and re-designed in terms of layout, colors, pictures, paper quality, and choosing an attractive cover. It also recommends the utilization of online courses, blogs, mind-mapping software, mobile reading apps and audiobooks, digital reading, global topics and global culture, speed reading practice, and reading from multiple resources. High school and college students should be introduced to new books, magazines, and e-books. Extensive reading of serious topics should be started from the primary grades; reading texts should be diversified; developing students’ appreciation skills and visiting book fairs, public libraries, publishing houses, cultural centers should be emphasized as well.

Winter Wonderlands: Outdoor Adventure and the Reinvention of Christmas, 1870–1900

ABSTRACT For many Americans, Christmas became inextricably linked to a celebration of the outdoor life in the latter decades of the nineteenth century. Earlier generations of genteel folk in New York had taken the festival indoors, setting a fashion for many of the customs recognised to this day, and shaping a celebration of family and piety, home and consumption. But Christmas did not stay indoors forever. Appealing to a growing, broad middle-class interest in outdoor sports during the Gilded Age of the 1870s-1890s, a proliferating range of magazines shaped new ideas about leisure and recreation, and in festive special issues, about Christmas too. Sitting by the fire in dark and chilly December, readers of magazines like Forest and Stream or Outing could find encouragement to enjoy an active, outdoor Christmas Day, to venture into the winter landscape on skate or sled perhaps, or equally to lose themselves in stories of sport and adventure that could take them on imagined escapes, to the icy forests and mountains of the North, to sunny Florida and California, or to faraway lands, overseas. In these ways outdoor-sports magazines brought to mind wonderlands of thrill and enchantment. In the process, they reimagined Christmas for the twentieth century and the age of individualism and play, leisure and consumption.

Comprehensive Knowledge of HIV and AIDS and Related Factors in Angolans Aged between 15 and 49 Years.

A comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS among men and women in Africa is reportedly low. To the best of our knowledge, no studies using any definition of comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS have been conducted in Angola. To address this gap, we aimed to describe the comprehensive knowledge held by individuals aged between 15 and 49 years regarding HIV and AIDS and some associated factors, using the most recent Angolan demographic and health survey (DHS). Using an observational, cross-sectional design, we analyzed data collected from 19,785 individuals aged between 15 and 49 years for the 2016 DHS in Angola. We conducted a logistic regression analysis of descriptive and complex samples to examine the data and to unravel possible factors associated with having a comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS. Almost half of the respondents (47.7%) had a general comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS. Individuals who watched television (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 2.40; 95% CI: 2.11, 2.72) or read newspapers and magazines (aOR: 1.99; 95% CI: 1.72, 2.30) more than once a week had higher odds of having a comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS compared to those who did not. Similarly, having completed primary education and above (aOR: 1.83; 95% CI: 1.67, 2.00) or living in urban areas (aOR: 1.51; 95% CI: 1.34, 1.71) increased the likelihood of individuals having a comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS compared to their counterparts. These results reflect inequalities that require further attention at either a research or a political level. Nevertheless, we consider that these results can assist decision-makers in advocating for continuous investment in HIV health literacy and in adapting global solutions to local Angolan contexts.

Early Childhood Sex Education in Islamic Nuances

Sex education is an effort to teach and provide information or what is more commonly referred to as basic skills and knowledge that are important to be given as early as possible, to deal with things that might happen in the future because over time and age, and how the formation character and pattern of behavior to be able to avoid deviant behavior. This journal discusses the study of how early childhood sex education is in Islamic nuances, because there are so many cases of sexual violence in early childhood, even in 2015 the Indonesian Child Protection Commission stated that early childhood sex cases are a problem that attacks life in Indonesia. This research uses the library research method, which is research conducted by reading books or magazines, and other library sources related to the topic studied. The results of this study are early childhood sex education in Islamic nuances, we can use it as one of the guidelines when there are many deviant behaviors related to sex. So, with this research, it is expected to be able to apply Islamic concepts to sex education itself.

Konsep Persaudaraan dalam Pandangan Islam dan Budha

This research aims to find out what is meant by brotherhood and find out the agreements and differences in the concept of brotherhood in the views of Islam and Buddhism. This research method uses library research. Library research is a type of research conducted by reading books or magazines and other data sources to collect data from various literature, both libraries and other places. This researcher uses the Sociology of Religion approach. The sociology of religion approach is an approach that discusses one of the social phenomena, namely religion as a social manifestation. The results of this research show that brotherhood in Islam shows a way that can be taken to build communication on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also gives new enthusiasm to simultaneously carry out teachings in accordance with the instructions of the Qur'an and the examples of the Prophets and Messengers - His. Brotherhood in Buddhism is part of the happiness of life. Loving-kindness or brotherhood is the wish for the happiness of all beings without exception, which is often said to be a pure intention to wish the welfare and happiness of other beings. Brotherhood is the most important part of human life. Fraternity gives rise to positive enthusiasm and motivation, even though in reality not always in the name of brotherhood human life will run in an orderly, good and harmonious way. As major world religions, Islam and Buddhism have their own unique teachings, believed by their adherents on the basis of faith. Universal Islamic teachings and tolerant Buddhist teachings are standard forms that cannot be compared.

A Latin Alphabet for the Arabic Language: Romanizing Arabic in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Beyond

AbstractThis article explores early attempts to romanize the Arabic language in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Egypt and situates them within a global history of script reforms in the modern period. I focus on the models to write Arabic in the Latin script developed by the Cairo-based magazine al-Muqtataf between 1889 and 1897 (which, to the extent of my knowledge, have never been examined before), relating them to the responses they elicited from the magazine's readers and some of the romanization practices found in advertising, commercial displays in the streets, and governance at the time. I demonstrate that, in this period, romanized Arabic was envisioned as an original way to pursue financial profit and technological efficiency, confront European knowledge production, and redefine the standing of Arabic within transregional publishing networks that encompassed different languages and alphabets. This analysis thus offers an alternative geography of script reform that supersedes the national framework.