This chapter presents excerpts from two of the most famous 19th- century Egyptian newspapers: Abu naḍḍāra zarʾa ‘The man with the blue eyeglasses’, founded by Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ in 1878, and al-Ustāḏ ‘The professor’, founded in 1892 by ʿAbd Allāh al-Nadīm. Both were satirical newspapers, critical of Egyptian society and of the regime, and both were (partially) written in Egyptian Arabic, which could be read aloud in order to make them accessible to the uneducated masses. This makes them interesting...