It was first published in Wagga Wagga City in April 2016 and for many years it was run by its co-founder, Mazen Mira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A global edition is published in Wagga Wagga and covers the Arab World in the Middle East and North Africa where Arabic is a common language, it is also accessible to other readers from across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name \u201cMuqtani\u201d in Arabic refers to collectors or individuals who possess valuable objects, such as coins or postage stamps. This term is commonly used by Arab researchers and hobbyists who have a passion for collecting such items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Arab Collector<\/em> has been based in Wagga Wagga City since its first issue, The inaugural issue of the publication was released on 28 April 2016, by Mazen Mira and Moheb Rizkalla as a free online magazine. The two had previously worked on publishing different educational posts about collecting hobbies in Arabic on different specialized forums and on social media until they considered having an independent publication for collecting hobbies in the Arabic language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was first published as a monthly bulletin distributed digitally on Facebook until the registration of the domain on the 13th of March 2017<\/sup>. Formerly, the suggested name for the magazine was \u201cCoins & Stamps<\/em>\u201d (Coins and stamps<\/em>) in Arabic, representing its primary focus. However, the name was later changed to The Arab Collector before the release of its first issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The inaugural issue of The Arab Collector<\/em> was released in April 2016, and published as the May 2016 issue on the magazine's Facebook page<\/sup>, and it was set out to tell the news and collect articles through hobbyists. There were only 5 writers (hobbyists) participated in the first issue, featuring 8 topics covering a range of articles about coins and philately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main article for coins was about the history of the Scalloped coins<\/strong> and how the Indian coins impacted the Arabic coins throughout 87 years, featuring images of coins from Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Oman, Sudan, and an Indian 1 Anna, on its cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In August 2016, The Arab Collector<\/em> incorporated \u201cCoin Index<\/em>\u201c, a Facebook page which was launched by Tarik Al Bawab in Jordan, This incorporation aimed to expand the magazine\u2019s coverage of numismatic content from the region. Subsequently, in May 2017, The Arab Collector<\/em> established a collaboration with \u201cArabian Coins<\/em><\/a>\u201dFrom the United States, further broadening its sources and reach<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About The Arab Collector The Arab Collector (Arabic: Al-Muqtani Al-Arabi) is an Arabic platform founded in March 2016 as a digital magazine for promoting the knowledge of numismatic, philately, and, banknote in the Arab world and based in Australia. It was published monthly, but starting in February 2017 it transitioned to regular publication. It was first published in Wagga Wagga City in April 2016\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282154,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-278456","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The-Arab-Collector-Black-text-Medium.webp\")