Niqula Haddad was a Syrian Socialist, and was brother in law to Farah Antun.
Niqula Haddad was born into an orthodox family in 1870.[1]
Haddad went to the American secondary school at Sidon, and later studied pharmacy at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, as a pharmacist.
Sometime after 1900, Haddad would move to Egypt and marry Farah Antun's sister, Ruza.[2] Later on, he would work for his brother in law on his journal, al-Jami'ah, in New York. After the failure of the journal, Haddad would go back to Egypt and continue his writing career there, and would eventually write a ladies' magazine, al-Sayyidat, from 1948 to 1950. Sometime around the magazine, he was also editing for the magazine al-Muqtataf. In 1906 he published a novel Hawa al-Jadida aw Yvonne Monar (The New Eve, or Yvonne Monar)[3]
Like some other prominent socialists, Haddad believed in a planned economy, and pointed to the Egyptian governments' control over utilities like railroads and telephones as evidence for the plausibility of such a thing. Haddad believed the implementation of socialism should be through democratic means, where a socialist party educates the people sufficiently to win power in the government and implement socialist policies.
Niqula Haddad died in 1954.