class-struggle-anarchism:

“Besides establishing study groups that attracted “excommunicated and subversive people from all parts of the world, who would meet there with their discourses in rebellion from God and society”, the anarchists focused on publishing periodicals and manifestos. At least seven anarchist periodicals were issued between 1877 and 1914 in Alexandria. Vasai in particular put his typographer’s skills to good use and produced at least one extant periodical with Joseph Rosenthal, a Jewish anarchist with some Beirut connection who had moved to Alexandria (from Cairo) in 1899.129 La Tribune Libre/La Tribuna Libera, a bilingual periodical founded in 1901, had a publication figure that hovered around a thousand, of which six hundred were sent to Italy. It published translations of texts by Kropotkin, Bakunin, Reclus, and Tolstoi, as well as articles by Italian anarchists such as Malatesta. It also included a section on local matters, discussing local anarchists’ initiatives such as talks, meetings, and strikes.

The fact that such a large percentage of La Tribuna Libera’s issues (and those of other anarchist periodicals published in Alexandria) were sent abroad indicates just how much of a global project anarchism was and how connected Alexandria was to this global network. Like many anarchists from the turn of the century, the Italian anarchists in Alexandria functioned—and functioned intensely— on two levels, the global and the local. In fact it would be more accurate to say that theirs was a world in which the two were inextricably linked, cognitively, politically, and socially. Among their primary concerns was to connect—or connect even more firmly—Alexandria and Egypt to the global (and specifically Italian) network that constituted the world anarchist scene and spanned various parts of the Mediterranean and Europe, Italy, and the Americas: Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, as well as the United States. Not only were these periodicals distributed locally; they were also sent abroad to fellow anarchists in Naples, Buenos Aires, Paterson, New Jersey, and probably elsewhere. 

Members of the Egyptian anarchist scene also contributed articles and entries on the situation of anarchism in Egypt to anarchist periodicals in the above-mentioned places, and engaged in discussions with fellow anarchists on the pages of famous anarchist periodicals, such as Jean Grave’s La Révolte. They followed each other’s news closely and with concern, worried about their companions’ fate, sent news about individual anarchists and their itineraries, raised funds internationally to support anarchist families abroad, subsidized anarchist periodicals in Italy and abroad, and passionately debated various anarchist theories.”

 – Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914

I’m finding this book really useful on the importance of anarchism in Egyptian radical and anti-colonial history, definitely check it out if you get a chance