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List Of Arabic-language Writers
This is a list of Arabic language writers. A * Abdelkader Alloula * Ahmed Shawqi B * Kerolos Bahgat G * Ghalib Halasa I * Abdelghani Ibrahim K * Safa Khulusi R * Rachid Boudjedra * Rachid Mimouni M * Malek Bennabi Malek Bennabi (1 January 1905 – 31 October 1973) ( ar, مالك بن نبي) was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilizatio ... N * Bhai Nand Lal Y * Yasmina Khadra See also * List of Arabic-language poets Sources * * Arabic * Arabic-language writers {{listdev, date=June 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelkader Alloula
Abdelkader Alloula ar, عبد القادر علولة (1939 in Ghazaouet, Algeria – March 14, 1994, in Oran, Algeria) was an Algerian playwright. He was assassinated by GIA terrorists. Biography Alloula was born in Ghazaouet in western Algeria. He joined the Algerian National Theatre upon its creation in 1963 following independence. His works, typically in vernacular Algerian Arabic, included: * '' El-Aâleg'' (1969) - "The Leech", a satire of corrupt administration * '' El-Khobza'' (1970) - "Bread" * '' Homq Salim'' (1972) - "Salim's Madness", a monologue based on Nikolai Gogol's " Diary of a Madman" * '' Hammam Rabbi'' (1975) - "The Lord's Bath", based on Gogol's ''The Government Inspector'' * The Generous Trilogy: ** '' El-Agoual'' (1980) - "The Sayings" ** '' El-Adjouad'' (1984) - "The Generous" ** '' El-Litham'' (1989) - "The Veil" He was working on an Arabic version of ''Tartuffe'' when he was shot by two members of FIDA (Islamic Front for Armed Jihad) during Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Shawqi
Ahmed Shawqi (also written Chawki; ar, أحمد شوقي, , ; ; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets ( ar, أمير الشعراء ''Amīr al-Shu‘arā’''), was an Arabic poet laureate, to the Arabic literary tradition. Life Raised in a wealthy family of mixed Circassian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Greek roots, his family was prominent and well-connected with the court of the Khedive of Egypt. Upon graduating from high school, he attended law school, obtaining a degree in translation. Shawqi was then offered a job in the court of the Khedive Abbas II, who was the khedive of Egypt, which he immediately accepted. After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years. While in France, he was heavily influenced by the works of French playwrights, most notably Molière and Racine. He returned to Egypt in 1894, and remained a prominent member of Arab literary culture un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerolos Bahgat
Kerolos Bahgat (born 1991) is an Egyptian writer and assistant surgeon at El-Demerdash hospital. He is well known for his satirical style of writing in the field of psychology, as portrayed in his book ''The Thought Experiment for Mama's Boy'', among many others. His works were published by a number of publishing firms including Dar Toya For Publishing and Distributing and The Book Home Bookstore. Personal life Bahgat has not always been passionate about writing. Rather, he enjoyed acting, and played a number of roles throughout his university years before deciding to stop to better focus on his education. Upon graduating, Bahgat had to find the means to ease up the physical and psychological pressures resulting from his profession as an assistant surgeon, and, hence, decided to pursue writing. Unlike his audience, Bahgat believes that writing and medicine complement one another, for writing allows him to better understand the human soul, as well as brings him peace of mind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghalib Halasa
Ghalib Halasa (Arabic: غالب هلسا; December 3, 1932 – December 17, 1989) was a Jordanian novelist, short story writer, literary critic, translator, and political activist. He was a prominent literary figure in the Arabic-speaking world during the 20th century. Some of Halasa's most influential novels include ''al-Dhahik'' (Laughter), ''al-Su’al'' (The Question), and ''Sultana''. He was also a long-time member of the Communist Party, no matter what country he was living in. Halasa's views awarded him a life of exile, spending many years in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. He died in Damascus at the relatively young age of 57, after which his body was returned to Jordan, where he had not been for 34 years (he left Jordan in 1955). As someone with great command of literary technique and theory, on top of his exceptionally fluid style, Halasa's writings combine smooth reading with complex structuring. This was because he had the ability to draw on diverse narrative techniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelghani Ibrahim
Abdelghani Ibrahim (1878–1962) was an Egyptian poet. Abdelghani is one of the country's most important early-twentieth-century poets. He grew up in Alexandria. His family's assets went to support the Baz family. Revolutionary He participated in the revolutionary struggle against the British colonialists. He participated with Mustafa Kamil Pasha and Mohammad Farid through his work on the Major and Mokattam and Ambassador newspapers. He received a baccalaureate while participating with Saad Zaghloul Pasha in the struggle in Alexandria, Cairo and chaired the headquarters of the Wafd Party. He participated with senior poets of the Arab world in the book ''Tears poets'' (demoa el shoaaraa) that lamented the Saad Zaghloul Pasha in 1927, including Ahmed Shawqi, Hafez Ibrahim and Khalil Mutran. He was involved with the artist Sayed Darwish. He wrote some of the songs that Darwish sang at the beginning of the twentieth century. He worked with Salama Hegazi and with artist Nagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safa Khulusi
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Rachid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra ( ar, رشيد بوجدرة) (b. 5 September 1941 in Aïn Beïda, Algeria) is an Algerian poet, novelist, playwright and critic. Boudjedra wrote in French from 1965 to 1981, at which point he switched to writing in Arabic, often translating his own works back and forth between the two languages. Boudjedra returned to writing in French in 1992 and has continued to write in that language ever since. Educated in Constantine and in Tunis (at the Collège Sadiki), Boudjedra later fought for the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence. He received his degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he wrote a thesis on Céline. Upon receiving his degree, he returned to Algeria to teach, but was sentenced to two years in prison for his criticisms of the government and was exiled to Blida. He lived in France from 1969 till 1972, and then in Rabat, Morocco until 1975. Boudjedra's fiction is written in a difficult, complex style, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Gabri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachid Mimouni
Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (20 November 1945 – 12 February 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style. He was threatened by Islamic militants for his stance against a movement which he described as being based on archaic ideas, irrelevant in the present time. Biography Rachid Mimouni was born in Boudouaou, 30 km from Algiers to a family of poor peasants. Mimouni studied science at the University of Algiers before becoming a teacher at the ''École supérieure du commerce'' (business school) in Algiers. He was president of the Kateb Yacine foundation and he also held the position of vice-president at Amnesty International. He fled Algeria for France in 1993 to escape the civil war and the assassinations of intellectuals. He died in Paris in 1995 of hepatitis Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue. Some people or animals with hepatitis have no sympto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malek Bennabi
Malek Bennabi (1 January 1905 – 31 October 1973) ( ar, مالك بن نبي) was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilization. According to Malek Bennabi, the lack of new ideas in Islamic thought emerged what he coined ''civilizational bankruptcy''. He argued that in order to recover its former magnificence, Islamic society had to become an environment in which individuals felt empowered. In order to satisfy his spiritual and material needs, a Muslim needed to feel that his industry and creativity would find reward. Education Bennabi was born in Constantine, Algeria in 1905. Educated in Paris and Algiers in engineering, he later based himself in Cairo, where he spent much of his time working extensively in the fields of history, philosophy and sociology. In 1963, after returning to Algeria, he witnessed modern scientific inventions and technological creation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhai Nand Lal
Bhai Nand Lal ( fa, ; pa, ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ; 1633–1713), also known by his pen name Goya ( fa, ; pa, ਗੋਯਾ), was a 17th-century Sikh poet in the Punjab region. He was born in Ghazni Afghanistan . His father Diwan Chajju Ram was chief secretary( Diwan) of Dara Shikoh eldest son of Aurangazeb who was living there by the and moved there after living in Multan west Punjab now Pakistan..He was one of the fifty-two poets of Guru Gobind Singh's darbar (court). Bhai Sahib lived in Multan and later became a courtier in darbar of Guru Gobind Singh; the tenth Sikh Guru. Life He was provided education in Arabic, Persian, and Mathematics during his early years. At the age of 12 he started writing poetry in Persian under the pen name Goya. At the age of 17 he lost his mother, and two years later his father. In 1652, he went to Multan and settled over there, and was married to a Sikh girl. Thereafter, he became inclined towards Sikhism, met Guru Gobind Singh in 1682 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmina Khadra
Mohammed Moulessehoul ( ar, محمد مولسهول; born January 10, 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra ( ar, ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy. Biography Early life, and short stories Moulessehoul was born in 1955 in Kénadsa, in the Algerian Sahara. His mother, of nomadic origins, was her tribe's "chief storyteller". His father, initially a nurse, joined the Algerian National L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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