One of the earliest women to sign her articles in the Arabic-language press was the female medical practitioner Galila Tamarhan, who contributed articles to the medical magazine Ya'sub al-Tibb (Leader in Medicine) in the 1860s.[7] The Syrian writer and poet Maryana Marrash seems to have been the first woman to write in the Arabic-language daily newspapers.[8] In 1892, the Lebanese journalist Hind Nawfal published the first monthly journal for women, al-Fatah (The Young Girl), in Alexandria, Egypt.[9]