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Abd al-Masih Haddad

Journalist in Syria

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
Born	1890 Homs, Ottoman Syria
Died	January 17, 1963(1963-01-17) (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]

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]^[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]

Works

Title	Periodical or publisher	Location	Date	Translated title
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

Notes

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Meisami & Starkey 1998, p. 259.
^ ^a ^b ^c Media History Digest, p. 56.
^ ^a ^b Haiek 1984, p. 27.
^ ^a ^b Popp 2001.
^ Badawi 1992, p. 279.
^ Moreh 1976, p. 85.
^ Bawardi 2015, p. 70.
^ Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature, p. 26.

Bibliography

Bawardi, Hani J. (2015). The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship (1st ed.). Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-47730-752-6.
Badawi, M.M. (1992). Modern Arabic Literature. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521331975.
Haiek, Joseph R. (1984). Arab-American Almanac. News Circle Publishing House. ISBN 978-0-915652-21-1.
Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature. Herder. 2000.
Media History Digest. Vol. 5. 1985.
Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul, eds. (1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 9780415185714.
Moreh, Shmuel (1976). Modern Arabic Poetry. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 9004047956.
Popp, Richard Alan (2001). "Al-Rābiṭah al-Qalamīyah, 1916". Journal of Arabic Literature. 32 (1). Brill: 30–52. doi:10.1163/157006401X00123. JSTOR 4183426.