Al Majalla Al Jadida

Al Majalla Al Jadida (Arabic: The New Magazine) was an Arabic language socialist and avant-garde cultural and literary magazine which existed between 1929 and 1944 with a two-year interruption. Being an early avant-garde magazine in the Arab world[1] it is one of two magazines started by Salama Moussa.[2] The other one was Al Mustaqbal which was launched in 1914.[2]

Al Majalla Al Jadida
CategoriesCultural magazine
Literary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderSalama Moussa
Year founded1929
Final issue1944
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic

History and profile

Al Majalla Al Jadida was established by Salama Moussa in Cairo in 1929.[1][3] The magazine was closed down in 1931, but its publication was restarted in 1933.[3] In 1942 Moussa's ownership of the title ended, and his friends began to assume its publication to save it from the censorship.[4] However, the magazine ceased publication in 1944 when it was banned by the Egyptian authorities due to its leftist political stance.[3][4]

Al Majalla Al Jadida was published on a monthly basis.[5][4] The magazine was consisted of 30 pages which were printed on a A5-sized paper.[3] It acted as a platform to reproduce and transmit the Western cultural elements in the Egyptian society.[6] It adopted the rational secular thinking and socialism in developing a future projection for Egypt.[1] The readers of the magazine were presented the Fabian socialism, Marxism, Darwinism, psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, modernist literature and abstract painting in detail.[1]

Al Majalla Al Jadida featured scientific discussions, philosophical and avant-garde literary and artistic writings.[1] Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfuz published his work for the first time in the magazine.[1] As of 1930 Husayn Fawzi was one of the contributors who published articles on the discussions about Westernization, East and West, Egyptianism and Arabism.[7]

Al Tatawwur which was published for a short time in 1940 was modelled on Al Majalla Al Jadida.[8]

References
  1. Sabry Hafez (2017). "Cultural Journals and Modern Arabic Literature: A Historical Overview". Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (37): 22–23. JSTOR 26191813.
  2. Stephen Sheehi (2005). "Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 25 (2): 439. doi:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439.
  3. Elisabeth Kendall (July 1997). "The Marginal Voice: Journals and the Avant-Garde in Egypt". Journal of Islamic Studies. 8 (2): 221–222. doi:10.1093/jis/8.2.216.
  4. Kamel S. Abu Jaber (Spring 1966). "Salāmah Mūsā: Precursor of Arab Socialism". The Middle East Journal. 20 (2): 200-201. JSTOR 4323988.
  5. Israel Gershoni (Summer 1994). "The Reader-"Another Production": The Reception of Haykal's Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s". Poetics Today. 15 (2): 268. JSTOR 1773166.
  6. Israel Gershoni (Summer 1992). "The Evolution of National Culture in Modern Egypt: Intellectual Formation and Social Diffusion, 1892-1945". Poetics Today. 13 (2): 343. JSTOR 1772536.
  7. Ibrahim A. Ibrahim (January 1973). "Isma'il Maẓhar and Husayn Fawzi: Two Muslim 'Radical' Westernizers". Middle Eastern Studies. 9 (1): 38. JSTOR 4282452.
  8. Laura Galián (2020). "Decolonising sexuality in Egypt: al-Tatawwur's struggle for liberation". Postcolonial Studies. 23 (2): 170–181. doi:10.1080/13688790.2020.1762289.
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