Apollo (journal)

{{Short description|Literary magazine in Egypt (1932–1934)}}

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| editor = Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi

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| category = Literary magazine

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| founder = Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi

| founded = 1932

| firstdate = September 1932

| finaldate = 1934

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| country = Egypt

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| language = Arabic

| website = [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5:1-199820 Apollo]

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Apollo ({{langx|arz|اپولو}}; DMG: Apūllū) was an Arabic magazine, which appeared in Egypt from 1932 to 1934.{{cite journal|date=July 1997|author=Elisabeth Kendall|author-link=Elisabeth Kendall|title=The Marginal Voice: Journals and the Avant-garde in Egypt|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|volume=8|issue=2|page=223|doi=10.1093/jis/8.2.216}}{{cite journal|author=S. Moreh|title=Free Verse "(Al-shi'r al-hurr)" in Modern Arabic Literature: Abū Shādī and His School, 1926-46|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|year=1968|volume=31|issue=1|page=30|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00112777}} The first issue was published in September 1932.{{cite journal|author=Robin Ostle|title=The "Apollo" Phenomenon|journal=Quaderni di Studi Arabi

|year=2000|volume=18|pages=73–84|jstor=25802896}} Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (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"{{citation|surname1=J. Brugmann|title=An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt|publisher=Brill|publication-place=London|pages=151–204|language=de}} which was dedicated to the renewal of Arab poetry and the disposal of traditional conventions.{{cite web|title=أحمد زكي أبو شادي|publisher=Khayma

|access-date=3 February 2022|language=ar|url=http://www.khayma.com/salehzayadneh/poets/abu_shadi/abu_shadi_seerah.htm}}

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, Omar Khayyam and Shakespeare.{{citation|author=Robin Ostle|periodical=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|title=Modern Egyptian Renaissance Man|year=1994|volume=57|issue=1|pages=184–192|language=de|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00028226}} His journal became an important medium for experimental Arabic poetry outside of Egypt and was considered to be a pioneer of modern Arabic literature.{{citation|author=Salma Khadra Jayyusi|title=Trends and movements in modern Arabic poetry|publisher=Brill|publication-place=London|page=370|language=de}}

After working as a publisher he went to the University of Alexandria to teach medicine and finally emigrated to New York in 1946. There he edited various Arab diaspora magazines.{{citation|author=Slimane Z.Ghidour|title=La poésie arabe moderne entre l'Islam et l'Occident|publisher=Karthala|publication-place=Paris|page=126|language=de}}

In 1957 another magazine entitled Shi'r was established in Beirut, Lebanon, by the Shi'r movement which was significantly affected by the poetic approach of the Apollo Poet Society and Apollo.{{cite journal|author=John Haywood|title=Book review|journal=Die Welt des Islams|year=1978|volume=18|issue=3-4|page=236|jstor=1570475}}