Al-Hilal (magazine) explained

Al Hilal
Editor:Mohamed Al Shafei
Editor Title:Editor-in-chief
Previous Editor:Helmy Al Namnam
Frequency:Monthly
Based:Cairo
Publisher:Dar Al Hilal Publishing House
Founder:Jurji Zaydan
Country:Egypt
Language:Arabic
Oclc:1639361

Al-Hilal 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 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 magazine along with another 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

Notes and References

  1. News: Magda Abu Fadil. Jurji Zaidan: Renaissance Man for All Seasons. 6 October 2014. HuffPost. 3 February 2014.
  2. Web site: Al Hilal Archive. International School of Information Science. 29 September 2013.
  3. Web site: Clare Davies. Archive Map: Egypt. Speak Memory. 5 October 2014. dead. 6 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091343/http://speakmemory.org/uploads/ArchiveMapEgypt.pdf.
  4. Book: Boutheina Khaldi. Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziydah's Intellectual Circles. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-1-137-23530-5. 46.
  5. Book: Abdallah Shalaby. Salah al Din al Jurshi. Mostafa El Nabarawy. Moheb Zaki. Qays Jawad Azzawi. Antoine Nasri Messarra. Towards a Better Life: How to Improve the State of Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. 2010. GPoT. 978-605-4233-21-2. 123.
  6. Book: Ami Ayalon. The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. 1994. Oxford University Press. New York, Oxford. 978-0-19-535857-5. 53–54.
  7. Web site: First fifty years of Al Hilal. Zaidan Foundation. 29 September 2013.
  8. Fruma Zachs. Cross-Glocalization: Syrian Women Immigrants and the Founding of Women's Magazines in Egypt. Middle Eastern Studies. 2014. 50. 3. 353–369. 10.1080/00263206.2013.863757. 143522744.
  9. Book: Israel Gershoni. Confronting fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus democracy in the nineteen-thirties. 2010. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-6344-8. 112.
  10. Relli Shechter. Press Advertising in Egypt: Business Realities and Local Meaning, 1882-1956. The Arab Studies Journal. Fall 2002. 10-11. 2–1. 46. 27933831.
  11. News: An artist plays with the legacy of Al-Hilal cultural magazine. 29 September 2013. Egypt Independent. 21 January 2013. Jenifer Evans.
  12. Book: Mohamed El Bendary. The Egyptian Revolution: Between Hope and Despair: Mubarak to Morsi. 2013. Algora Publishing. 978-0-87586-992-6. 91. New York.
  13. Books and magazines. Al Ahram Weekly. 13–19 January 2000. 464. 29 September 2013. dead. 2 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131002085708/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/464/bk9_464.htm.
  14. Book: Andrew Hammond. Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. 2005. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-85109-449-3. 105. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Ocford.
  15. Web site: Clare Davies. Archive Map: Egypt. Speak Memory. 5 October 2014. dead. 6 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091343/http://speakmemory.org/uploads/ArchiveMapEgypt.pdf.
  16. Web site: 'Al Hilal' Magazine and 'The AsiaN' sign a cultural partnership agreement. AJA. 29 September 2013.
  17. Spencer Dan Scoville. The Agency of the Translator: Khalil Baydas' Literary Translations. University of Michigan. 9. PhD. 2012. 2027.42/96110 .
  18. Web site: Who's Who. Connected in Cairo. 5 October 2014. 10 September 2011.
  19. Hala Kamal. Women's Writing on Women's Writing": Mayy Ziyada's Literary Biographies as Egyptian Feminist History. Women's Writing. 2018. 25. 2. 269. 10.1080/09699082.2017.1387350. 158818848.
  20. Mai Taha. Sara Salem. Social reproduction and empire in an Egyptian century. Radical Philosophy. Spring 2019. 49.
  21. Tahir Khemiri. G. Kampffmeyer. Leaders in contemporary Arabic literature. Die Welt des Islams. 1930. 9. 16,32. 2–4. 10.2307/1569007. 1569007 .
  22. William Shepard. The Dilemma of a Liberal Some Political Implications in the Writings of the Egyptian Scholar, Ahmad Amin (1886-1954). Middle Eastern Studies. May 1980. 16. 2. 85. 10.1080/00263208008700436.

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