''Apollo'' ( arz, اپولو; DMG: ''Apūllū'') was an Arabic magazine, which appeared in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

from 1932 to 1934. The first issue was published in September 1932.

Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi ( ar, أحمد زكي أبو شادي, ; February 9, 1892 – April 12, 1955) in Cairo, was an Egyptian Romantic poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist. Family Abu Shadi's father, Muhammed Abu Shad ...

(1892-1955) was the founder of the magazine. He was also the publisher of the first 25 issues and founded simultaneously the "Apollo Poet Society" which was dedicated to the renewal of Arab poetry and the disposal of traditional conventions. Abu Shadi was not only a poet and author of numerous papers on politics, social reform, Islam and art but also a translator of some works by

Hafez Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...

Omar Khayyam Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, an ...

and

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

. His journal became an important medium for experimental Arabic poetry outside of Egypt and was considered to be a pioneer of modern Arabic literature. After working as a publisher he went to the

University of Alexandria Alexandria University ( ar, جامعة الإسكندرية) is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an indepen ...

to teach medicine and finally emigrated to New York in 1946. There he edited various Arab diaspora magazines. In 1957 another magazine entitled ''

Shi'r ''Shi'r'' (Arabic: مجلة شعر; ''Poetry'') was an avant-garde and modernist monthly literary magazine with a special reference to poetry. The magazine was published in Beirut, Lebanon, between 1957 and 1970 with a three-year interruption. Th ...

'' was established in Beirut, Lebanon, by the Shi'r movement which was significantly affected from the poetry approach of the Apollo Poet Society and also, of ''Apollo''.

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