The Modern Arab Association (Arabic: المؤسسة العربية الحديثة, Al-Muʾassasa al-ʿArabiyya al-Ḥadītha; The Modern Arabic Institute) is an Egyptian publishing house.
Established by Hamdi Mustafa in 1960, it published reference and revision school books for Egyptian school children, including the Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon) series.
[Basilius Bawardi and Alif Faranesh]
Non-canonical "Arabic Detective Fiction: The Beginnings of the Genre"
''Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
The ''Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies'', often abbreviated to ''JAIS'', is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal. It was founded in 1995 by Joseph N. Bell from the University of Bergen, Norway, and Petr Zemánek from Charles Univ ...
'', 18(2018):30ff. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
In 1984 it started publishing several book series in the Arabic language under the name ''
Rewayat
Rewayāt Masreyya Lel Gēb (Egyptian Pocket Novels) (روايات مصرية للجيب), aka Rewayat is an Arabic series of stories and books published in Egypt by the Modern Arab Association and distributed worldwide by the same publishing ho ...
'' (Egyptian Pocket Novels). That series was particularly popular "during the 1980s and 1990s".
[* Ayesha Almazroui]
If we want to keep Arabic alive, don’t blame English
thenational.ae. Retrieved 31 July 2017. The Modern Arab Association has been the official publisher and distributor of ''Rewayat'' to all over the Arabic-speaking world.
The first authors writing for the Modern Arab Association in this period were
Nabil Farouk
Nabil Farouk Ramadan Bayoumi Ramadan () (9 February 1956 – 9 December 2020) was an Egyptian novelist. best known for his books in the ''Rewayat, Rewayāt Masreyya Lel Gēb'' (''Egyptian Pocket Novels'') series.
He was born in the Egyptian cit ...
and Sharif Shawqi.
Book series
More than 40 series have been published including:
* Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon)
*
Ragol Al Mostaheel (The Man of the Impossible).
*
Malaf Al Mostakbal (The Future File).
*
Al Maktab Raqam 19 (Office No. 19).
* Kūktīl 2000: Mā Warāʾal-Ṭabīʿa (
Cocktail 2000)
References
External links
Modern Arab Associationa
Rewayat.com
1960 establishments in Egypt
Publishing companies established in 1960
Book publishing companies of Egypt
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