Mawaqif
| Categories | Cultural magazine |
|---|---|
| Founder | Adunis |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Final issue | 1994 |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Based in | Beirut |
| Language | Arabic |
Mawaqif (also variously spelled Mawakif; "Positions" in English) was a cultural magazine founded in Beirut in 1968 by Adunis.[1][2][3][4] It ran until 1994. Among its editors were Khalida Said, Hisham Sharabi, Halim Barakat, Elias Khoury, Kamal Boullata, and Edward Said.[2]
Reception and legacy
[edit]It was described by Hisham Sharabi as situated on the vanguard of a "new critical movement" at that time in Arab thought.[1] Another scholar said that the magazine "delved into a reassessment of the political style of the two decades that had passed and of the very language and vocabulary of politics of the time."[5]
Prof. Sabry Hafez, as part of a historical overview on cultural journals in Arabic, said of the magazine:
"In its early years in Beirut, before the Lebanese civil war, it published some of the best creative and critical output of Arab culture, and raised in its subsequent issues—published from London in the late 1980s and early 1990s—some of the significant issues of modernism in literature and critical theory. These three journals [Mawaqif alongside Shi'r and Hiwar] initiated a rupture in the previously integrated cultural field, ended its pan-Arab cohesion, and foreshadowed a polarization in the political field that followed."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society.” Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987), 3.
- ^ a b "Mawaqif (1968-1994): Notes from Beirut's Long Sixties". www.fu-berlin.de (in German). 14 May 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ^ a b Hafez, Sabry; حافظ, صبري (2017). "Cultural Journals and Modern Arabic Literature: A Historical Overview / المجلات الثقافية والأدب العربي الحديث : عرض تاريخي". Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (37): 33. ISSN 1110-8673. JSTOR 26191813.
- ^ "Hay Festival Abu Dhabi". www.hayfestival.com. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ^ Albers, Yvonne (2015). Pannewick, Friederike; Khalil, Georges (eds.). Commitment and Beyond : Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden. p. 341.