Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat
Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat (Arabic: أحمد حسن الزيات) was an influential Egyptian political writer and intellectual who established the Egyptian literary magazine Arrissalah,[1] which is described as "the most important intellectual weekly in 1930s Egypt and the Arab world."[2] Born in the village of Kafr Demira, Talkha,[3] into what was then a peasant family, al-Zayyat studied at Al-Azhar University before taking up legal studies in Cairo and Paris. He taught Arabic literature at American University in Cairo, and for three years in Baghdad, before founding Arrissalah in 1933.[4] In the 1960s he served as the editor of Majallat Al Azhar, monthly publication of Al Azhar University.[5]
Ahmed Hasan al-Zayyat | |
|---|---|
| أحمد حسن الزيات | |
| Born | 4 February 1885 |
| Died | 12 May 1968 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Education | Al-Azhar University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer Journalist |
He sharply criticized Nazism and the ideology's racist views.[6]
References
- Joe Drape (4 June 2015). "Ahmed Zayat's Journey: Bankruptcy and Big Bets". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- Sonja Hegasy (2010). "The Arabs and Nazi Germany: Collaborators and Antagonists". Qantara. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- حمد, أ خليل (2018). المقال الادبى عند العقاد (in Arabic). دار حميثرا للنشر والترجمة. ISBN 9789776563322.
- Emmanuel K. Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012). Dictionary of African biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 236. ISBN 9780195382075.
- Gabriel R. Warburg (April 1982). "Islam and Politics in Egypt: 1952-80". Middle Eastern Studies. 18 (2): 136. doi:10.1080/00263208208700502.
- David Motadel (3 March 2016). "Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion, edited by Israel Gershoni". Middle Eastern Studies. 52 (2): 377–379. doi:10.1080/00263206.2015.1121872. S2CID 147486609.