Al-Hilal (magazine)

For the Urdu language newspaper, see Al-Hilal (newspaper).

Al Hilal
Editor-in-chiefMohamed Al Shafei
Former editorsHelmy Al Namnam
Categories
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherDar Al Hilal Publishing House
FounderJurji Zaydan
Founded1892; 133 years ago (1892)
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic
OCLC1639361

Al-Hilal (Arabic: الهلال, lit. 'the crescent') is a monthly Egyptian cultural and literature magazine founded in 1892.[1] It is among the oldest magazines dealing with arts in the Arab world.[2][3]

History and profile

Al-Hilal was founded in 1892 by Jurji Zaydan,[4][5] a journalist and historical novelist from Beirut who had come to Egypt in the 1880s.[6][7] The first issue of the monthly was published in September 1892.[8] After Jurji Zaydan's death the journal was edited by his sons, Emile and Shukri Zaydan.[9] Shortly after its start Al-Hilal managed to be a popular literary magazine along with the popular science magazine Al Muqtataf.[10]

The magazine, published in Arabic, is based in Cairo.[11] It is one of the state-owned publications in the country.[12] State-run Dar Al Hilal Publishing House is the publisher of the magazine.[13][14]

Past issues of Al-Hilal were digitized by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.[2] In addition, the publisher also archived the past issues of the magazine and of other publications.[15] South Korean news agency the AsiaN and the magazine initiated a cultural partnership to support the cooperation in the fields of culture and media.[16]

Al Hilal has inspired many Arabic magazines, including Al Nafais Al Asriyyah launched in Jerusalem in 1908.[17]

Editors and contributors

On 30 March 2011 Helmy Al Namnam became the editor-in-chief of Al Hilal.[18] The next editor-in-chief of the magazine was Mohamed Al Shafei.[16]

One of the earliest contributors was May Ziadeh, a Palestinian feminist writer.[19] Another contributor was Aisha Abel Rahman, an author and professor of literature.[20] She published articles under the pseudonym Bint al Shati.[20] Her articles and others in Al Hilal were supportive of the United Arab Republic.[20] Mansur Fahmi and Salama Moussa also contributed to the magazine.[21] Ahmad Amin regularly contributed to Al Hilal from 1933 to his death in 1954.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ Magda Abu Fadil (3 February 2014). "Jurji Zaidan: Renaissance Man for All Seasons". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Al Hilal Archive". International School of Information Science. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  3. ^ Clare Davies. "Archive Map: Egypt" (PDF). Speak Memory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  4. ^ Boutheina Khaldi (2012). Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziydah's Intellectual Circles. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-137-23530-5.
  5. ^ Abdallah Shalaby; Salah al Din al Jurshi; Mostafa El Nabarawy; Moheb Zaki; Qays Jawad Azzawi; Antoine Nasri Messarra (2010). Towards a Better Life: How to Improve the State of Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. GPoT. p. 123. ISBN 978-605-4233-21-2.
  6. ^ Ami Ayalon (1994). The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-0-19-535857-5.
  7. ^ "First fifty years of Al Hilal". Zaidan Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  8. ^ Fruma Zachs (2014). "Cross-Glocalization: Syrian Women Immigrants and the Founding of Women's Magazines in Egypt". Middle Eastern Studies. 50 (3): 353–369. doi:10.1080/00263206.2013.863757. S2CID 143522744.
  9. ^ Israel Gershoni (2010). Confronting fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus democracy in the nineteen-thirties. Stanford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8047-6344-8.
  10. ^ Relli Shechter (Fall 2002). "Press Advertising in Egypt: Business Realities and Local Meaning, 1882-1956". The Arab Studies Journal. 10–11 (2–1): 46. JSTOR 27933831.
  11. ^ Jenifer Evans (21 January 2013). "An artist plays with the legacy of Al-Hilal cultural magazine". Egypt Independent. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  12. ^ Mohamed El Bendary (2013). The Egyptian Revolution: Between Hope and Despair: Mubarak to Morsi. New York: Algora Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-87586-992-6.
  13. ^ "Books and magazines". Al Ahram Weekly. 464. 13–19 January 2000. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  14. ^ Andrew Hammond (2005). Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Ocford: ABC-CLIO. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-85109-449-3.
  15. ^ Clare Davies. "Archive Map: Egypt" (PDF). Speak Memory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  16. ^ a b "'Al Hilal' Magazine and 'The AsiaN' sign a cultural partnership agreement". AJA. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  17. ^ Spencer Dan Scoville (2012). The Agency of the Translator: Khalil Baydas' Literary Translations (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. p. 9. hdl:2027.42/96110.
  18. ^ "Who's Who". Connected in Cairo. 10 September 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  19. ^ Hala Kamal (2018). "Women's Writing on Women's Writing": Mayy Ziyada's Literary Biographies as Egyptian Feminist History". Women's Writing. 25 (2): 269. doi:10.1080/09699082.2017.1387350. S2CID 158818848.
  20. ^ a b c Mai Taha; Sara Salem (Spring 2019). "Social reproduction and empire in an Egyptian century". Radical Philosophy: 49.
  21. ^ Tahir Khemiri; G. Kampffmeyer (1930). "Leaders in contemporary Arabic literature". Die Welt des Islams. 9 (2–4): 16, 32. doi:10.2307/1569007. JSTOR 1569007.
  22. ^ William Shepard (May 1980). "The Dilemma of a Liberal Some Political Implications in the Writings of the Egyptian Scholar, Ahmad Amin (1886-1954)". Middle Eastern Studies. 16 (2): 85. doi:10.1080/00263208008700436.
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