Al Nafais Al Asriyyah
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Founder | Khalil Beidas |
Founded | 1908 |
Final issue | 1923 |
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Language | Arabic |
Al Nafais Al Asriyyah (
History and profile
Al Nafais Al Asriyyah was launched by Khalil Beidas in 1908.[3][4] The magazine was headquartered in Haifa, but it was moved to Jerusalem in 1910.[5] It was modeled on other Arabic magazines, including Al Muqtataf and Al Hilal,[6] but Beidas also designed Al Nafais using the features of the Russian literary journals such as Sovremennik and Russkii Vestnik.[5][7] Throughout its lifetime the publication frequency of Al Nafais changed from weekly to biweekly and then to monthly.[4]
In the early years it was a literary magazine which covered the translations of
Al Nafais temporarily ceased publication in 1914 when World War I broke out and was restarted in Jerusalem on 26 July 1919.[2][9] In this second phase it began to contain political materials partly due to the Russian revolution.[3] It also contained articles on linguistics and history.[9] The magazine folded in 1923 after producing 117 issues.[3][4] Its successor was Al Ikha which was established by Salim Qub'ayn in Cairo.[3]
References
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- ^ a b c "al-Nafais/ al-Nafais al-'Asriyya". National Library of Israel. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
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- ^ S2CID 229453704.
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- JSTOR 25802892.
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