Al Adib
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderAlbert Adib
Founded1942
First issueJanuary 1942
Final issueAugust–December 1983
CountryLebanon
Based inBeirut
LanguageArabic
OCLC1001507113

Al Adib (Arabic: مجلة الأديب, lit. 'The Man of Letters') was a literary magazine which was based in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded and edited by the Lebanese poet Albert Adib, and its title was a reference to his surname.[1] The magazine existed between 1942 and 1983.

History and profile

Al Adib was started in Beirut in January 1942.[1][2] Its founder and editor was the poet Albert Adib.[1][3][4] In addition to literary work, Al Adib covered articles on arts, science, politics and sociology.[3] The magazine supported modernism[2] and became an outlet for intellectuals from different backgrounds.[5] The magazine supported the view that poems should not be necessarily dependent on meter encouraging prose-like poems.[4]

Al Adib folded after the publication of the issue dated August–December 1983.[1] Some of its issues were archived by the Palestinian Museum.[3]

Contributors

Al Adib featured articles not only by Lebanese writers, but also by other Arab figures from various countries. Their ideological origins were not homogenous.[5] However, they all had the belief that individual rights were the cornerstone of the civic order.[5]

Its major Lebanese contributors included Raif Khoury, Omar Fakhoury, Elias Abu Shabaki, Elias Khalil Zakharia, Michel Trad and Gabriel Jabbour.[1][5] Other regular contributors were Wadih Palestine from Egypt, Edmond Rabbath from Syria[5] Issa Naouri,[1] and Thurayyā Malḥas, from Jordan.[6] In the first issue dated January 1942 the Lebanese journalist Gebran Andraos Tueni published an article in which he argued that not dictatorial rules but democratic states should be supported.[5] Poet Salah Al Asir published a controversial article in 1944 in Al Adib in which he developed a categorization of the contemporary Arab poets by their country of origin.[2] However, he did not mention any poet of the Palestinian origin in the list.[2] Another contributor Ishaq Musa Al Husseini argued that access to the Palestinian poets and other literary figures was not easy for readers due to the fact that they did not publish books, but limited their contributions to certain magazines.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "ألبير أديب ومجلة «الأديب»" (in Arabic). Al Arabi. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Ibrahim Mahfouz Abdou; Refqa Abu-Remaileh (2022). "A Literary Nahda Interrupted: Pre-Nakba Palestinian Literature as Adab Maqalat". Journal of Palestine Studies. 51 (3): 27, 30, 35. doi:10.1080/0377919X.2022.2103329. S2CID 251845824.
  3. 1 2 3 "Part 12 of Al Adib Magazine, December 1969". The Palestinian Museum. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 S. Moreh (July 1968). "Poetry in Prose (al-Shi'r al-Manthūr) in Modern Arabic Literature". Middle Eastern studies. 4 (4): 352–353. doi:10.1080/00263206808700109. JSTOR 4282260.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Götz Nordbruch (2014). "A Challenge to the Local Order: Reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese Press". In Israel Gershoni (ed.). Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism. Attraction and Repulsion. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 51. doi:10.7560/757455-004. ISBN 978-1477307571. S2CID 240104639.
  6. ↑ Rose Ghurayyib (May 1985). "Thorayya Malhas. A Pioneer from Jordan". Al-Raida Journal. IV (32): 3.
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