Al-Hilal (magazine)

Al-Hilal [meaning The Crescent in English] is a monthly Egyptian cultural and literature magazine.[1] It is among the oldest magazines dealing with arts in the Arab world.[2][3]

For the Urdu language newspaper, see Al-Hilal (newspaper).

Al Hilal
Editor-in-chiefMohamed Al Shafei
Former editorsHelmy Al Namnam
CategoriesCultural magazine
Literary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherDar Al Hilal Publishing House
FounderJurji Zaydan
Year founded1892 (1892)
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic
OCLC1639361

History and profile

Al-Hilal was founded in 1892 by Jurji Zaydan,[4][5] a journalist from Beirut who had come to Egypt in the 1880s.[6][7] The first issue of the monthly was published in September 1892.[8] After Jurji Zaydan's death the journal was edited by his sons, Emile and Shukri Zaydan.[9] Shortly after its start Al-Hilal managed to be a popular magazine along with another magazine Al Muqtataf.[10]

The magazine, published in Arabic, is based in Cairo.[11] It is one of the state-owned publications in the country.[12] State-run Dar Al Hilal Publishing House is the publisher of the magazine.[13][14]

On 30 March 2011 Helmy Al Namnam became the editor-in-chief of Al Hilal.[15] The next editor-in-chief of the magazine was Mohamed Al Shafei.[16]

One of the earliest contributors was May Ziadeh, a Palestinian feminist writer.[17] Another contributor was Aisha Abel Rahman, an author and professor of literature.[18] She published articles under the pseudonym Bint al Shati.[18] Her articles and others in Al Hilal were supportive of the United Arab Republic.[18] Mansur Fahmi and Salama Moussa also contributed to the magazine.[19] Ahmad Amin regularly contributed to Al Hilal from 1933 to his death in 1954.[20]

Past issues of Al-Hilal were digitized by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.[2] In addition, the publisher also archived the past issues of the magazine and of other publications.[21] South Korean news agency the AsiaN and the magazine initiated a cultural partnership to support the cooperation in the fields of culture and media.[16]

See also

References
  1. Magda Abu Fadil (3 February 2014). "Jurji Zaidan: Renaissance Man for All Seasons". Huffington Post. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. "Al Hilal Archive". International School of Information Science. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  3. Clare Davies. "Archive Map: Egypt" (PDF). Speak Memory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  4. Boutheina Khaldi (24 December 2012). Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziydah's Intellectual Circles. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-137-23530-5.
  5. Abdallah Shalaby; Salah al Din al Jurshi; Mostafa El Nabarawy; Moheb Zaki; Qays Jawad Azzawi; Antoine Nasri Messarra (2010). Towards a Better Life: How to Improve the State of Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. GPoT. p. 123. ISBN 978-605-4233-21-2.
  6. Ami Ayalon (1994). The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-0-19-535857-5.
  7. "The Zaidan Foundation". First fifty years of Al Hilal. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  8. Fruma Zachs (2014). "Cross-Glocalization: Syrian Women Immigrants and the Founding of Women's Magazines in Egypt". Middle Eastern Studies. 50 (3): 353–369. doi:10.1080/00263206.2013.863757. S2CID 143522744.
  9. Israel Gershoni (2010). Confronting fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus democracy in the nineteen-thirties. Stanford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8047-6344-8.
  10. Relli Shechter (Fall 2002). "Press Advertising in Egypt: Business Realities and Local Meaning, 1882-1956". The Arab Studies Journal. 10–11 (2–1): 46. JSTOR 27933831.
  11. Jenifer Evans (21 January 2013). "An artist plays with the legacy of Al-Hilal cultural magazine". Egypt Independent. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  12. Mohamed El Bendary (2013). The Egyptian Revolution: Between Hope and Despair: Mubarak to Morsi. Algora Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-87586-992-6.
  13. "Books and magazines". Al Ahram Weekly. 464. 13–19 January 2000. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  14. Andrew Hammond (2005). Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-85109-449-3.
  15. "Who's Who". Connected in Cairo. 10 September 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  16. "'Al Hilal' Magazine and 'The AsiaN' sign a cultural partnership agreement". AJA. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  17. Hala Kamal (2018). "Women's Writing on Women's Writing": Mayy Ziyada's Literary Biographies as Egyptian Feminist History". Women's Writing. 25 (2): 269. doi:10.1080/09699082.2017.1387350. S2CID 158818848.
  18. Mai Taha; Sara Salem (Spring 2019). "Social reproduction and empire in an Egyptian century". Radical Philosophy: 49. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2021.
  19. Tahir Khemiri; G. Kampffmeyer (1930). "Leaders in contemporary Arabic literature". Die Welt des Islams. 9 (2–4): 16, 32. doi:10.2307/1569007.
  20. William Shepard (May 1980). "The Dilemma of a Liberal Some Political Implications in the Writings of the Egyptian Scholar, Ahmad Amin (1886-1954)". Middle Eastern Studies. 16 (2): 85. doi:10.1080/00263208008700436.
  21. Clare Davies. "Archive Map: Egypt" (PDF). Speak Memory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
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