Abd al-Masih Haddad ( ar, عبد المسيح حداد, ; 1890–1963) was a

Syrian Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...

writer of the

Mahjar The Mahjar ( ar, المهجر, translit=al-mahjar, one of its more literal meanings being "the Arab diaspora") was a literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to America from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and Palestine ...

movement and journalist.. 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 The Mahjar ( ar, المهجر, translit=al-mahjar, one of its more literal meanings being "the Arab people, Arab diaspora") was a literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to America from Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-ruled L ...

. which he co-founded with

Nasib Arida Nasib Arida ( ar, نسيب عريضة, ; 1887–1946) was a Syrian-born poet and writer of the Mahjar movement and a founding member of the New York Pen League. Life Arida was born in Homs to a Syrian Greek Orthodox family where he receiv ...

in 1915. or 1916.. 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 The instance that marked the shift in the whole of Arabic literature towards modern Arabic literature can be attributed to the Arab World-West contact during the 19th and early 20th century. This contact resulted in the gradual replacement of Clas ...

according to

Muhammad Mustafa Badawi Mohammed Mustafa Badawi ( ar, محمد مصطفى بدوي, ; 10 June 1925 – 19 April 2012) was a scholar of English and Arabic literature. He was a Research Fellow of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 1969, and was t ...

Life

Haddad was born in

Homs Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...

, then a city of

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(modern-day Syria), to a

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family. He went to the Russian Teachers' Seminary in

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

, where he met

Mikha'il Na'ima Mikha'il Nu'ayma ( ar, ميخائيل نعيمة, ; US legal name: Michael Joseph Naimy), better known in English by his pen name Mikhail Naimy (October 17, 1889 – February 28, 1988), was a Lebanese poet, novelist, and philosopher, famous for ...

and

.. In 1907, he immigrated to

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, where he founded the Arabic-language magazine '' As-Sayeh'' (''The Traveler'') in 1912,. which continued to be published until 1957. It presented the works of such

i literary figures as Amin Rihani,

Kahlil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

, Elia Abu Madi, and Na'ima. In 1915 or 1916 along with Arida he co-founded the

in New York, an Arabic-language literary society, later joined by Gibran, Na'ima and other Mahjari poets in 1920. 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.

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Works by Abd al-Masih Haddad
(Arabic Collections Online) 1890 births 1963 deaths Syrian emigrants to the United States People from Homs Syrian Christians Greek Orthodox Christians from Syria Syrian journalists Syrian writers Mahjar 20th-century journalists {{Syria-writer-stub