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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]

Abd al-Masih Haddad
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
Born1890
Homs, Ottoman Syria
Died January 17, 1963(1963-01-17) (aged 72–73)
New York City, United States
OccupationWriter, journalist
ChildrenJerrier A. Haddad
RelativesNadra Haddad (brother)

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][lower-alpha 1] 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


TitlePeriodical or publisherLocationDateTranslated title
حكايات المهجرAs-SayehNew York1921The Stories of Expatriation
انطباعات مغترب في سوريةوزارة الثقافة والارشاد القوميDamascus1962Travel Account in Syria

Notes


  1. As-Sayeh is on microfilm in the Library of Congress.[2]

References


  1. Meisami & Starkey 1998, p. 259.
  2. Media History Digest, p. 56.
  3. Haiek 1984, p. 27.
  4. Popp 2001.
  5. Badawi 1992, p. 279.
  6. Moreh 1976, p. 85.
  7. Bawardi 2015, p. 70.
  8. Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature, p. 26.

Bibliography






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Абд аль-Масих Хаддад (араб. عبد المسيح حداد‎; 1890, Хомс — 1963, Нью-Йорк) — сирийский эмигрант-писатель в Америке.



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