A group of Egyptian journalists launched this year a first-of-its-kind magazine for the visually-impaired whose number exceeds three million people in the country, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). Al-Akhbar Braille, whose first edition was released last March, displays an array of sports, arts, political, economic and social news and feature stories. The team of the magazine consists of eight journalists – most of them are visually-impaired. Some of them enjoy previous experiences in the media field while others have found their first chance in the magazine. The magazine, published by state-run newspaper Akhbar El-Youm, is issued on a monthly basis and is distributed at public libraries, university libraries, schools and centers for the visually-impaired like institutions concerned with taking care of the blind. The number of the magazine’s print issues ranges between 1,000 and 2,000 every month. The price of the magazine is only EGP 10 despite the costly printing reaching up to EGP 60 per-version, according to the magazine’s editors. “The magazine was a dream aiming at addressing the large segment of people with special needs. That segment has remained marginalized for a long time and they were neither…
