Al Adab

Al Adab
Former editors
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Frequency
  • Monthly
  • Five times annual
  • Four times annual
Founder
  • Suhayl Idris
  • Mahij Uthman
  • Munir Al Baalbecki
Founded1953
First issueJanuary 1953
Final issueAutumn 2012 (print)
CountryLebanon
Based inBeirut
LanguageArabic
WebsiteAl Adab
ISSN0258-3925
OCLC230709971

Al Adab (Arabic: مجلة الأداب, romanized: Majalla Al ʾĀdāb, lit. 'Literary magazine') was an Arabic avant-garde existentialist literary print magazine published in Beirut, Lebanon, in the period 1953–2012. It was restarted in 2015 as an online-only publication. Encyclopædia Britannica describes it as one of the leading publications founded in the Arab countries in the latter half of the 20th century.[1] Although the magazine was headquartered in Beirut, it was distributed all over the Arabic-speaking regions.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Al-Ādāb. Lebanese literary journal". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. ^ Verena Klemm (2000). "Different Notions of Commitment (Iltizām) and Committed Literature (al-adab al-multazim) in the Literary Circles of the Mashriq". Arabic & Middle Eastern Literature. 3 (1): 51–62. doi:10.1080/13666160008718229. S2CID 161815428.
  3. ^ Sabry Hafez (2000). "The Novel, Politics and Islam". New Left Review. 5: 127.