Al-Katib al-misri (magazine)

*al-Kātib al-miṣrī*
	Cover page of the first issue
Editor	Taha Hussein
Categories	Literature, Arts, Science
Year founded	1945
Final issue	1948
Country	Egypt
Based in	Cairo
Language	Arabic
Website	nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5:1-219240

The Egyptian journal al-Katib al-misri (Arabic: الكاتب المصري; DMG: al-Kātib al-miṣrī; English: "The Egyptian Writer") was published in Cairo monthly in the period 1945–1948. It was founded originally by the Egyptian Press and Publishing House owned by the Jewish Al Harari family who entrusted Taha Hussein (1889-1973) with the management.[1] The magazine published a total of 32 issues and was available in numerous Arab metropolises.[2]

The focus of the journal was the publication of international literature and literary criticism, which were translated into Arabic and so helped to reach a broader readership. Both Arabic and non-Arabic art, literature and science were encouraged and a dialogue between Arabic and other languages should be established.[2]

As one of the first post-war magazines, al-Kātib al-miṣrī also aimed to make its vision of the enlightenment accessible to all and to promote mutual cultural exchange.[3] "Literature should be lifted above all conflicts existing world-wide."[4]

Arabic translations among others, of works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry or Jean-Paul Sartre,[3] were published, texts of promising new Arab authors[5] as well as literary criticism, which also offered an introduction by Western authors such as James Joyce or Franz Kafka.[6]

Moreover, two other sections also discussed in detail the contents and orientations of Arabic and European periodicals of the time.[5] In 1948, the publication of the magazine was stopped, whereby it is not clear whether this was spontaneous or under governmental pressure.[6]

References

Mohamed El Bendary. (2010). The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events. US Lexington Books, Lanham, p. 3. ASIN B009L8ZSRW
May Hawas. (2018). Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature. Comparative Literature Studies 55(1), pp. 66–92.
Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss. (2018). Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 45–46. ISBN 9781108147781
al-Kātib al-Miṣrī (1945). 1(1-3).
Christopher Dwight Micklethwait. (2010). Faits Divers: National Culture and Modernism in Third World Literary Magazines. PhD Thesis. The University of Texas at Austin, pp. 175, 184.
Elisabeth Kendall. (2006). Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt. Taylor and Francis Routledge, New York; London, pp. 55 ff.

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[1] Mohamed El Bendary. (2010). The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events. US Lexington Books, Lanham, p. 3. ASIN B009L8ZSRW

[may-2] May Hawas. (2018). Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature. Comparative Literature Studies 55(1), pp. 66–92.

[jema-3] Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss. (2018). Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 45–46. ISBN 9781108147781

[4] al-Kātib al-Miṣrī (1945). 1(1-3).

[cdm-5] Christopher Dwight Micklethwait. (2010). Faits Divers: National Culture and Modernism in Third World Literary Magazines. PhD Thesis. The University of Texas at Austin, pp. 175, 184.

[elik-6] Elisabeth Kendall. (2006). Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt. Taylor and Francis Routledge, New York; London, pp. 55 ff.