Modern Arab Association Explained

Modern Arab Association
Founder:	Hamdi Mustafa
Headquarters:	Faggala, Cairo, Egypt
Publications:	Books and magazines

The Modern Arab Association (Arabic: المؤسسة العربية الحديثة, Al-Muʾassasa al-ʿArabiyya al-Ḥadītha; The Modern Arabic Institute) is an Egyptian publishing house.

Established by Hamdi Mustafa in 1960, it published reference and revision school books for Egyptian school children, including the Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon) series.^[1]

In 1984 it started publishing several book series in the Arabic language under the name Rewayat (Egyptian Pocket Novels). That series was particularly popular "during the 1980s and 1990s".^[2] The Modern Arab Association has been the official publisher and distributor of Rewayat to all over the Arabic-speaking world.

The first authors writing for the Modern Arab Association in this period were Nabil Farouk and Sharif Shawqi.

Book series

More than 40 series have been published including:

• Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon)
• Ragol Al Mostaheel (The Man of the Impossible).
• Malaf Al Mostakbal (The Future File).
• Al Maktab Raqam 19 (Office No. 19).
• Kūktīl 2000: Mā Warāʾal-Ṭabīʿa (Cocktail 2000)

External links

• Modern Arab Association at Rewayat.com.

Notes and References

1. Basilius Bawardi and Alif Faranesh, Non-canonical "Arabic Detective Fiction: The Beginnings of the Genre", Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 18(2018):30ff. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
2. • Ayesha Almazroui, If we want to keep Arabic alive, don’t blame English, thenational.ae. Retrieved 31 July 2017.