al-Katib al-misri (magazine)
| al-Kātib al-miṣrī | |
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| Area of Expertise | Literature, art, science |
| language | Arabic |
| publishing company | unknown (Cairo, Egypt) |
| First edition | 1945 |
| attitude | 1948 |
| Editor-in-chief | Taha Hussein |
| ZDB | 2941544-5 |
The Egyptian magazine al-Katib al-misri ( Arabic الكاتب المصري, DMG al-Kātib al-miṣrī , “The Egyptian Writer” ') was published monthly from 1945 to 1948 in Cairo. It was originally founded by the Egyptian printing and publishing company of the Jewish al-Harari family, which Taha Hussein (1889–1973) commissioned to manage. The magazine appeared in a total of 32 issues and was available in numerous major Arab cities.
Her main focus was on the publication of international literature and literary criticism, which was translated into Arabic and thus made accessible to a wider readership. Both Arabic and non-Arabic art, literature and science should be promoted and a dialogue between Arabic and other languages established.
As one of the first post-war magazines, al-Kātib al-miṣrī also wanted to make his vision of the Enlightenment accessible to everyone and promote mutual cultural exchange. "Literature should be raised above all global conflicts."
Arabic translations appeared, including a. of works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Jean-Paul Sartre , texts by promising new Arab authors and literary reviews that also offered an introduction by Western authors such as James Joyce or Franz Kafka . Two further sections also discussed in detail the contents and directions of Arabic and European magazines of the time.
In 1948 the publication of the magazine was stopped, although it is unclear whether this was done voluntarily or under pressure from the government.
Web links
- Online version: al-Kātib al-miṣrī
- Homepage of the Bonn digitization project: www.translatio.uni-bonn.de
- Digital collections of the ULB Bonn: Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish periodicals
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mohamed El-Bendary: The Egyptian press and coverage of Local and International Events . US Lexington Books, Lanham 2010, pp. 3 .
- ↑ May Hawas: Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature . In: Comparative Literature Studies . tape 55 , no. 1 , 2018, p. 66-92 .
- ↑ May Hawas: Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature . In: Comparative Literature Studies . tape 55 , no. 1 , 2018, p. 66-92 .
- ^ Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss: Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018, pp. 45 .
- ↑ al-Kātib al-Miṣrī . tape 1 , no. 1-3 , 1945.
- ^ Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss: Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018, pp. 46 .
- ↑ Christopher Dwight Micklethwait: Faits Divers: National Culture and Modernism in Third World Literary Magazines. Diss. The University of Texas at Austin, 2010, p. 175 .
- ^ Elisabeth Kendall: Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt . Taylor and Francis Routledge, New York / London 2006, pp. 55 ff .
- ↑ Christopher Dwight Micklethwait: Faits Divers: National Culture and Modernism in Third World Literary Magazines. Diss. The University of Texas at Austin, 2010, p. 184 .
- ^ Elisabeth Kendall: Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt . Taylor and Francis Routledge, New York / London 2006, pp. 56 .