Abd al-Masih Haddad
Abd al-Masih Haddad | |
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 Four members of the Pen League in 1920. Left to right: Nasib Arida, Kahlil Gibran, Haddad, and Mikha'il Na'ima | |
| Native name | عبد المسيح حداد |
| Born | 1890 Homs, Ottoman Syria |
| Died | January 17, 1963 (aged 72–73) New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Children | Jerrier A. Haddad |
| Relatives | Nadra Haddad (brother) |
Abd al-Masih Haddad (Arabic: عبد المسيح حداد, ALA-LC: ʻAbd al-Masīḥ Ḥaddād; 1890–1963) was a Syrian writer of the Mahjar movement and journalist.[1] His magazine As-Sayeh (The Traveler), started in 1912 and continued until 1957, presented the works of prominent Mahjari literary figures in the United States and became the "spokesman" of the Pen League[2] which he co-founded with Nasib Arida in 1915[3] or 1916.[4] His collection Hikayat al-Mahjar (The Stories of Expatriation), which he published in 1921, extended "the scope of the readership of fiction" in modern Arabic literature according to Muhammad Mustafa Badawi.[5]
Life
Haddad was born in Homs, then a city of Ottoman Syria (modern-day Syria), to a Greek Orthodox family.[6] He went to the Russian Teachers' Seminary in Nazareth, where he met Mikha'il Na'ima and Nasib Arida.[7] In 1907, he immigrated to New York, where he founded the Arabic-language magazine As-Sayeh (The Traveler) in 1912,[8] which continued to be published until 1957.[1][a] It presented the works of such Mahjari literary figures as Amin Rihani, Kahlil Gibran, Elia Abu Madi, and Na'ima.[2] In 1915[3] or 1916[4] along with Arida he co-founded the Pen League in New York, an Arabic-language literary society, later joined by Gibran, Na'ima and other Mahjari poets in 1920.[1] In 1921, he published his collection Hikayat al-Mahjar (The Stories of Expatriation) in As-Sayeh. Another of his works, Intiba'at Mughtarib (Travel Account), which he had written after a short visit to Syria, was published in Damascus in 1962.[1]
Works
| Title | Periodical or publisher | Location | Date | Translated title |
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| حكايات المهجر | As-Sayeh | New York | 1921 | The Stories of Expatriation |
| انطباعات مغترب في سورية | وزارة الثقافة والارشاد القومي | Damascus | 1962 | Travel Account in Syria |
Notes
- ^ As-Sayeh is on microfilm in the Library of Congress.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Meisami & Starkey 1998, p. 259.
- ^ a b c Media History Digest, p. 56.
- ^ a b Haiek 1984, p. 27.
- ^ a b Popp 2001.
- ^ Badawi 1992, p. 279.
- ^ Moreh 1976, p. 85.
- ^ Bawardi 2015, p. 70.
- ^ Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature, p. 26.
Bibliography
- Bawardi, Hani J. (2015). The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship (1st ed.). Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-47730-752-6.
- Badawi, M.M. (1992). Modern Arabic Literature. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521331975.
- Haiek, Joseph R. (1984). Arab-American Almanac. News Circle Publishing House. ISBN 978-0-915652-21-1.
- Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature. Herder. 2000.
- Media History Digest. Vol. 5. 1985.
- Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul, eds. (1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 9780415185714.
- Moreh, Shmuel (1976). Modern Arabic Poetry. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 9004047956.
- Popp, Richard Alan (2001). "Al-Rābiṭah al-Qalamīyah, 1916". Journal of Arabic Literature. 32 (1). Brill: 30–52. doi:10.1163/157006401X00123. JSTOR 4183426.
External links
- Works by Abd al-Masih Haddad (Arabic Collections Online)
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