Astounding circulation figures for Reference magazine, booklet

The French newspaper and magazine circulation syndicate said Friday that almost 52% of the copies of the first edition of The Reference magazine had already been sold, whereas 55% of the copies of the first edition of The Reference booklet had been sold.

In a letter it sent to the Center for Middle East Studies, which publishes the magazine and the booklet, the syndicate considered these circulation figures to be an expression of great success for two publications that appear on newsstands in France for the first time.

Titled “Dangers posed by the thinking of the Brotherhood on the Western Civilization”, the booklet was written by center director and Egyptian lawmaker Abdul Rahim Ali.

Apart from the prelude, the booklet contained five researches: The Muslim Brotherhood and non-Muslims, The Muslim Brotherhood and democracy, the Muslim Brotherhood and the arts, the Muslim Brotherhood and women and the Muslim Brotherhood and change through violence.

The first edition of The Reference magazine contained, meanwhile, several researches and studies, including a research on the post-Daesh era by French counterterrorism expert Roland Jacquard, a file on terrorism financing by Swiss researcher Richard Labeviere; Ian Hamel, who writes for the French weekly Le Point; Abdul Rahim Ali, and Algerian researcher Etman Tazaghart.

The same edition of the magazine contained a study by Ahmed Kamel al-Beheiri on the future of Daesh-affiliated organizations in the Middle East. It contained another study by Sally Youssef on statehood in the thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and Daesh.

The edition contained a third study by Hamed al-Musalami on the international nature of terrorism and the required globalization of the fight against terrorism. There was another study by Abul Fadl al-Esnawi on whether the Algerian experience in the fight against terrorism is still applicable in other countries.

The edition contained another study by Ali Bakr on the dangers posed by mujahedeen youth on security in the Horn of Africa. There was an additional study in the same edition by Ahmed Sami Abdel Fattah on the mechanisms employed by terrorist organizations in Europe. Sadiq Amin Muhib also contributed another study to the edition on lone wolves.

The same edition contained several other studies that throw light on the realities of the Muslim Brotherhood and the role Qatar plays in backing it.

The magazine and the booklet are published in four languages, namely Arabic; French; English, and German.