Jurji Zaydan
Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jurji Zaydan[lower-alpha 1] (Arabic: جرجي زيدان, ALA-LC: Jurjī Zaydān; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels.
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Jurji Zaydan جرجي زيدان | |
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Born | (1861-12-14)December 14, 1861 Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) |
Died | July 21, 1914(1914-07-21) (aged 52) Cairo, Egypt |
Occupation | Writer, novelist, journalist, editor and teacher |
Literary movement | Pan-Arabism |
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His primary goal, as a writer and intellectual during the Nahda, was to make the common Arabic population know their own history through the entertaining medium of the novel. He has enjoyed a widespread popularity. He is also considered to have been one of the first thinkers to help formulate the theory of Arab nationalism.[1]