Editing Reader's Digest (section)

===Arabic editions===
The first ''Reader's Digest'' publication in the [[Arab World]] was printed in Egypt in September 1943.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nagam.org/showthread.php?t=3159|title=مجلة " المختار " تعاود الصدور من الرياض - منتدى نغم|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626190519/http://www.nagam.org/showthread.php?t=3159|archive-date=June 26, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The license was eventually withdrawn.

The second effort and the first ''Reader's Digest'' franchise agreement was negotiated through the efforts of Frederick Pittera, in 1976, an American entrepreneur, who sold the idea to [[Lebanon]]'s former foreign minister, [[Lucien Dahdah]], then son-in-law of [[Suleiman Frangieh]], [[President of Lebanon]]. Dahdah partnered with [[Ghassan Tueni]] (former Lebanon [[ambassador to the United Nations]], and publisher of {{transliteration|ar|Al Nahar}} newspaper, [[Beirut]]) in publishing ''Reader's Digest'' in the Arabic language. It was printed in [[Cairo]] for distribution throughout the Arab world under title {{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}}. In format, {{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}} was the same as the U.S. edition with 75% of the editorial content. [[Philip Hitti]], Chairman of [[Princeton University]]'s Department of Oriental Languages and a team of Arabic advisers counseled on what would be of interest to Arabic readers. The publication of {{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}} ceased in April 1993.