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Using digital text analysis methods, it identifies and interprets patterns of Jewish representation within al-Ris\u0101lah\u2019s archive, uncovering how Arab intellectuals negotiated Jewishness amid the political tensions of the interwar and early postwar periods. This interdisciplinary approach enables a nuanced examination of cultural production, bridging quantitative modelling with close textual reading to reveal the ambivalences of Arab print discourse during a pivotal historical moment. The study\u2019s significance lies in its digital examination of media texts published during the rise of Zionism and the establishment of Israel, an era that reshaped intercommunal relations across the Arab world. As Arab Jews began departing Egypt en masse, al-Ris\u0101lah\u2019s evolving depictions of Jews became symptomatic of broader anxieties over national identity, religious difference, and colonial legacies. Structured in two parts, the first contextualizes al-Ris\u0101lah within anti-colonial and post-Ottoman intellectual currents, illustrating how the magazine became a platform for competing visions of Arab modernity. The second part synthesizes distant reading with interpretive analysis to assess how al-Ris\u0101lah conceptualized Jews: as symbols of modernity, victims of Western imperialism, or threats to Arab sovereignty. These portrayals are not merely historical curiosities but inform contemporary understandings of ethno-religious identity and political belonging. By fusing digital humanities tools with a postcolonial critique of knowledge production, this study contributes a new methodological and epistemological model for analysing Arab print culture, representation, and media history.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/llc\/fqaf114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,13]],"date-time":"2025-11-13T05:33:22Z","timestamp":1763012002000},"page":"302-319","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Cultural Analytics and the Politics of Representation: Mapping the Jewish Presence in Egypt\u2019s al-Ris\u0101lah (1933\u20131953)"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"41","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5781-5564","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eid","family":"Mohamed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of English Literature and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University , P.O. 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