Al Nafais Al Asriyyah

Al Nafais Al Asriyyah
Categories
  • Literary magazine
  • Political magazine
Frequency
  • Weekly
  • Biweekly
  • Monthly
FounderKhalil Beidas
Founded1908
Final issue1923
Country
  • Ottoman Palestine
  • Mandatory Palestine
Based in
LanguageArabic

Al Nafais Al Asriyyah ⁨(Arabic: النفائس العصرية, romanizedal-Nafais al-'Asriyya, lit.'The Modern Treasures'), simply Al Nafais, was a literary and political magazine which was published between 1908 and 1923 with an interruption during World War I. It was founded, published and edited by the Palestinian writer Khalil Beidas and was the most read literary periodical published in Palestine under the Ottomans.[1] Its subtitle was Majalla adabiyya tarikhiyya fukahiyya (Arabic: A recreational and historical literary magazine).[2]

  1. ^ Spencer Dan Scoville (2012). The Agency of the Translator: Khalil Baydas' Literary Translations (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. p. 9. hdl:2027.42/96110.
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