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Mawaqif
''Mawaqif'' (also variously spelled ''Mawakif''; "Positions" in English) was a cultural magazine founded in Beirut in 1968 by Adunis. Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society.” ''Arab Studies Quarterly'' 9, no. 1 (1987), 3. It ran until 1994. Among its editors were Khalida Said, Hisham Sharabi, Halim Barakat, Elias Khoury, Kamal Boullata, and Edward Said. Reception and legacy It was described by Hisham Sharabi as situated on the vanguard of a "new critical movement" at that time in Arab thought. Another scholar said that the magazine "delved into a reassessment of the political style of the two decades that had passed and of the very language and vocabulary of politics of the time." Prof. Sabry Hafez, as part of a historical overview on cultural journals in Arabic, said of the magazine:"In its early years in Beirut, before the Lebanese civil war, it published some of the best creative and critical output of Arab culture, and raised in its subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adunis
Ali Ahmad Said Esber (, Levantine Arabic, North Levantine ; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis ( ), is a Syrian people, Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world." Adonis's publications include twenty volumes of poetry and thirteen of criticism. His dozen books of translation to Arabic include the poetry of Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy, and the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (2002). His multi-volume anthology of Arabic poetry ("Dīwān ash-shi'r al-'arabī"), covering almost two millennia of verse, has been in print since its publication in 1964. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Adonis has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world. Biography Early life and education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shi'r
''Shi'r'' () was an avant-garde and modernist monthly literary magazine with a special reference to poetry. The magazine was published in Beirut, Lebanon, between 1957 and 1970 with a three-year interruption. The founders were two leading literary figures: Yusuf al-Khal and Adunis. It was named after Harriet Monroe’s Chicago-based magazine, ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry''. History and profile ''Shi'r'' was started in Beirut in 1957, and the first issue appeared in January. Its founders were Yusuf al-Khal, Adunis and Unsi Al Hajj. The magazine was significantly affected from Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi's the Apollo Poet Society founded in Cairo, Egypt, in 1932. Salma Khadra Jayyusi argues that ''Shi'r'' is, in fact, the successor of ''Apollo (journal), Apollo'' which was the publication of this society. It was started as a quarterly, but later its frequency was switched to monthly. The goal of ''Shi'r'' which was an avant-garde journal was to present a non-political version of poetry. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalida Said
Khalida Said (Arabic: خاليدة سعيد; alternate spellings Khalida Saeed, Khalida Sa'id) is a Syrian-origin author and literary critic. She has taught and published extensively on Arabic literature and culture since 1957. Early life and background Said was born in Latakia, Syria. She studied arts, including apprenticing with the well-known artist Mahmoud Jalal. She joined the Teachers’ Training Institute in Damascus and then went on to further studies of Arabic literature in Damascus followed by the Lebanese University in Beirut. She completed her PhD in Arabic literature at the Sorbonne. Said met the writer Adonis, who she went on to marry, during her time at Teachers College. Adonis has said in an interview that he "never publish danything without her looking at it; he described their marriage as a "deep intellectual friendship." Khalida joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) and was imprisoned because of her party activities. Professional achievements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halim Barakat
Halim Barakat ( December 4, 1931 - June 22, 2023 ) was a Syrian American novelist and sociologist. He was born into a Greek-Orthodox Arab family in Kafroun, Syria, and raised in Beirut. Career Barakat received his bachelor's degree in sociology in 1955, and his master's degree in 1960 in the same field. He received both from the American University of Beirut. He received his PhD in social psychology in 1966 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. From 1966 until 1972 he taught at the American University of Beirut. He then served as research fellow at Harvard University from 1972 to 1973, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975-1976. From 1976 until 2002 he was Teaching Research Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies of Georgetown University. Barakat has written about twenty books and fifty essays on society and culture in journals such as the British Journal of Sociology, the Middle East Journal, Mawakif and al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi. His p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury (; 12 July 1948 – 15 September 2024) was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book ''Gate of the Sun'', and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury also wrote three plays and two screenplays. From 1993 to 2009, Khoury served as an editor of ''Al-Mulhaq'', the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper ''Al-Nahar.'' He also taught at universities in Middle Eastern and European countries, and the United States. The notion that Palestinians suffer from a Nakba, continuous Nakba is a leitmotif running through much of his work. Biography Early life Elias Khoury was born in 1948 into a middle-class Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christians, Greek Orthodox family in the predominantly Christian Ashrafiyye district of Beirut, Lebanon. He began reading Lebanese novelist Jurji Zaydan's works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
