Akhbar Al-Adab
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| image_caption =February 2010 issue
| editor = Magdi Afifi
| editor_title = Editor-in-chief
| frequency = Weekly
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| category = Literary magazine
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| publisher =Akhbar Al Yawm
| founded ={{start date and age|1993}}
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| country = Egypt
| language = Arabic
| based = Cairo
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Akhbar Al Adab ({{langx|ar|أخبار الأدب}}; Cultural News in English){{cite web|title=Egyptian Figures |url=http://www.sis.gov.eg/newVR/figure2011/english/enmoaser/htm/ghitani.htm|work=SIS|accessdate=10 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212145355/http://www.sis.gov.eg/newVR/figure2011/english/enmoaser/htm/ghitani.htm|archivedate=12 December 2013 }} is an Arabic weekly literary magazine which is published by state-run Akhbar Al Yawm publishing house.
History and profile
Akhbar Al Adab was established by Gamal Al-Ghitani in 1993 as a platform for Egyptian and Arab literary production.{{cite news|author=Lina Attalah|title=A new Akhbar al Adab|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/new-akhbar-al-adab|accessdate=10 December 2013|newspaper=Egypt Independent|date=2 June 2011}}{{cite web|title=Media Landscape|url=http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/media-landscape/media-landscape-4|work=Menassat|accessdate=5 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006135353/http://www.menassat.com/?q=en%2Fmedia-landscape%2Fmedia-landscape-4|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}} Since then it has been published by Akhbar Al Yawm publishing house on Sundays.{{cite book|author=Andrew Hammond|title=Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m4eodEw7ZvsC&pg=PA105|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-449-3|page=105}} The company also publishes Al Akhbar newspaper.{{cite book|author1=Joel Beinin|author2=Frédéric Vairel|title=Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa: Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtFYAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA268|year=2013|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8569-3|page=268}} The headquarters is in Cairo.{{cite journal|author=Nancy Linthicum|title=The Cultural Newspaper "Akhbar al-Adab" and the Making of Egypt's "Nineties Generation"|journal=Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics|date=2017 |volume=37|pages=229–261|jstor=26191820}}
The magazine features articles on literary work as well as interviews.
From its creation in 1993 to January 2011 Gamal Al-Ghitani served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine and he was replaced by Mustafa Abdullah in the post.{{cite news|author1=Safaa Abdoun|author2=Marwa Al A’asar|title=Shoura Council reshuffles editors of state papers, magazines|url=http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2011/01/18/shoura-council-reshuffles-editors-of-state-papers-magazines/|accessdate=6 October 2014|work=Daily News Egypt|date=18 January 2011|location=Cairo}}{{cite news|title=Akhbar al-Adab Strike Succeeds|url=http://arablit.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/akhbar-al-adab-strike-succeeds/|accessdate=5 October 2014|work=Arabic Literature|date=18 May 2011}} However, the journalists of the magazine demanded his removal as the editor-in-chief. In May 2011, Abla al-Roweiny was chosen by the journalists as the editor-in-chief of the weekly. In August 2013 Magdi Afifi was appointed editor-in-chief.{{cite web|title=Akhbar al Adab|url=http://madamasr.com/content/editors-take-over-egypt%E2%80%99s-leading-literary-journal|accessdate=10 December 2013|author=Nadia Ahmed|date=1 August 2013|work=Mada Masr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209101450/http://www.madamasr.com/content/editors-take-over-egypt%E2%80%99s-leading-literary-journal|archive-date=9 December 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|author=Mohammed Saad|title=Politics of new editor at Egypt's prestigious literarature news worries journalists|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/18/50477/Books/Politics-of-new-editor-at-Egypts-prestigious-Liter.aspx/|accessdate=5 October 2014|work=Ahram Online|date=15 August 2012}}
Editor-in-chief Tarek el-Taher and author Ahmed Naji were acquitted on 2 January 2016 on charges they had published indecent material in Naji's novel, The Use of Life, which Akhbar Al-Adab published in August 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egyptian-writer-acquitted-violating-public-morals-36054976|title=People, Places, Crisis, Conflict, Culture, Change, Analysis and Trends|work=ABC News|language=en|access-date=13 March 2018}}
Yasser Abdel Hafez and Hassan Abdel Mawgoud are among the contributors. Palestinian author Fadwa Al Qasem published her short stories in the magazine.{{cite book|author1=Nedim Gursel|author2=Ghamal al-Ghitani|author3=Fadwa Al-Qasem|author4=Ala Hlehel|author5=Hassan Blasim |author6=Yousef al-Mohaimeed|author7=Elias Farkouh|author8=Nabil Sulayman|author9=Joumana Haddad|author10=Yitzkah Laor|title=Madinah: City Stories from the Middle East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VZJGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT110|year=2013|publisher=Comma Press|page=110|id=GGKEY:TJQ3PCYQFQA}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://akhbarelyom.com/news/newssection/190/1/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AF%D8%A8}} {{in lang|ar}}
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Category:1993 establishments in Egypt
Category:Literary magazines published in Egypt
Category:Magazines established in 1993