Abd al-Masih Haddad | |
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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]
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]
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 |
Abd al-Masih Haddad | |
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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]
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]
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 |