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Atlas Publishing House was established as one of the projects of Atlas Group for Commerce PLC. as of 1999. The company specializes in publishing dictionaries as it did issue a group of dictionaries, known as “Atlas Dictionaries” that hit it big in the Arab World. Among these group was the first encyclopedic dictionary in the Arab world, “Atlas Encyclopedic Dictionary”, followed by another group of dictionaries; i.e. Atlas Dictionary, Atlas Student Dictionary, Atlas Idioms Dictionary, Atlas Medical Explanatory Dictionary, and Atlas Medical Dictionary for scholars … etc. These dictionaries were a huge success in Egypt and the Arab World. The publishing house cooperated with a group of university professors specialized in different languages in order to issue these dictionaries including: Dr. Fatma Saleh Sharaf (Senior English Lecturer, Ain Shams University). Dr. Laila Abdul Razeq Othman (Professor and Head of English Department, Azhar University). Dr. Trindel Hussein A

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