DEFENCE 21 , the leading defence, security and aerospace magazine in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, is a bimonthly magazine (six issues/ year plus special issues/ supplements) published in Arabic with an English Supplement covering main articles, interviews and events.

The primary role of the magazine is to raise the standards of awareness on the latest defence and aerospace technologies and their relative programs, systems, strategies, trends and markets in MENA countries, to help them develop smart procurement programs that can best meet their national security requirements.

DEFENCE 21 is a well-balanced, diversified and informative magazine. It features mostly all sections of defence, security and aerospace (27 sections in 164 pages/issue at the minimum) as well as Homeland Security that is gaining optimized role at regional and international levels to address anti terror and anti insurgency operations.

DEFENCE 21 strategy focuses mainly on dynamic press interviews with high-ranking regional official figures, procurement planners, staff officers as well as industry executives and program managers. Such interviews are critical for targeting the core of defence news that couldn’t be extracted from other available canned conservative information assets.

DEFENCE 21 is the only and unique regional magazine that exhibits or visits most regional and international exhibitions and conferences, to keep its valued readers abreast on the latest technologies, trends, markets, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and consolidations. Furthermore, it helps establish contacts between people in charge of customer needs and their industry counterparts to enable them develop business and sign contracts.

In order to maintain its unique diversity, DEFENCE 21 , has started since early 2009, focusing in essay like articles as well as international and regional readers digest news to cover latest technologies and news of customers and industries, especially those of relative importance to MENA countries.
In line with its policy, DEFENCE 21 has succeeded in expanding its geographic and demographic distribution in most MENA countries to become the leading regional magazine in an unprecedented time.

To sum up, the systematic, versatile, and informative uniqueness of DEFENCE 21 , coupled with its wide circulation, are making it the best selling magazine in the MENA region. The support of such a magazine is essential, should industry players wanted to optimize their regional promotions in a single vehicle to get the best value of their money.

Needless to say that the MENA region has emerged again, with the rise of global economic downturn, as number one in defence export markets and is enjoying the highest growth rates in commercial aviation.

The performance of DEFENCE 21 has been awarded by several regional and international defence, security and aerospace exhibitions organizers and exhibitors such as AUSA, Defexpo, Dimdex, DSA, Dubai, Paris and Farnborough Airshows, Euronaval, Eurosatory, Idex, Imdex, Milipol Qatar, Sofex…. Furthermore, it has been adopted by leading defence companies as the major vehicle for promoting their products in the MENA region.