| Abd al-Masih Haddad | |
| Native Name: | Arabic: عبد المسيح حداد |
| Birth Date: | 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Homs, Ottoman Syria |
| Death Place: | New York City, United States |
| Occupation: | Writer, journalist |
| Children: | Jerrier A. Haddad |
| Relatives: | Nadra Haddad (brother) |
Abd al-Masih Haddad (Arabic: عبد المسيح حداد, ; 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]
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] 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]
| Title | Periodical or publisher | Location | Date | Translated title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic: حكايات المهجر | As-Sayeh | The Stories of Expatriation | |||
| Arabic: انطباعات مغترب في سورية | Arabic: وزارة الثقافة والارشاد القومي | Travel Account in Syria |
. Shmuel Moreh. Modern Arabic Poetry. 1976. Leiden. E. J. Brill. 9004047956.