What this journal knows about its readers, and what it does not.
Almost nothing. The journal does not advertise, does not sell anything, and embeds no third-party tracking on its pages.
Last updated: 2 May 2026.
Who we are
The Middle Quarterly is an independent academic-literary review published by Dr Doaa El-Masry, in her individual capacity, from Minya, Egypt. The journal is hosted at cultury-museum.lat. There is no institutional publisher, no parent body, and no commercial sponsorship. The University of Minya, where the editor holds her teaching position, is not involved in the editorial process and is not a publisher of the journal.
For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the editor is the data controller. For the purposes of Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 and its executive regulations, the editor is also the data controller and processes personal data only on the lawful bases listed below.
What we collect
- Server logs. The web server records the IP address, the date and time of the request, the URL requested, the referrer, and the user agent string. These logs are kept for thirty (30) days, used solely to diagnose technical problems and to detect abusive traffic. The lawful basis is legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; Art. 2 of Law 151/2020).
- Letters and contact-form messages. If you write to us, we keep your message and email address for as long as the correspondence is open, and for up to twelve (12) months afterwards. The lawful basis is your consent and our legitimate interest in replying.
- No tracking cookies. The site sets at most one purely technical cookie, only to remember whether you have dismissed a notice. There is no advertising cookie, no third-party analytics, and no fingerprinting.
What we do not do
- We do not run advertising of any kind.
- We do not sell, rent, or otherwise transfer personal data.
- We do not embed Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, or any comparable third-party tracker.
- We do not profile readers, build advertising audiences, or target advertising.
- We do not transfer personal data outside Egypt or the EEA except as needed to deliver email replies through ordinary email infrastructure.
Fonts and embedded resources
The site loads two typefaces — Source Serif 4 and Source Sans 3 — from Google Fonts. When a font file is requested, Google may receive your IP address as part of the request. We do not receive that information ourselves. If this concerns you, browser settings can disable third-party requests, and the site will fall back to a system serif and sans-serif.
Your rights
Under GDPR and the Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law you have the right to:
- Ask what personal data we hold about you (right of access).
- Ask us to correct inaccurate personal data (rectification).
- Ask us to delete personal data we no longer need (erasure).
- Object to processing on the basis of legitimate interest.
- Withdraw consent at any time, where consent is the basis.
- Lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority — the Personal Data Protection Center (المركز المصري لحماية البيانات الشخصية) in Egypt, or, in the EU, your national data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please write to [email protected]. We aim to reply within thirty (30) days.
Children
The journal is intended for adult readers — typically graduate students, faculty, and the long literary reader. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under sixteen (16). If you believe a child has sent us a message, please write — we will delete it.
Changes
If this notice changes, we will update the date at the top and keep the previous version on file for at least one year. Material changes will be flagged on the home page for thirty days.
Questions, complaints, requests: [email protected].