{{Short description|Literary magazine in Lebanon (1942–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | category = Literary magazine | company = | publisher = | founder = Albert Adib | founded = 1942 | firstdate = January 1942 | finaldate = August–December 1983 | based = Beirut | country = Lebanon | language = Arabic | issn = | oclc = 1001507113 }} '''''Al Adib''''' ({{langx|ar|مجلة الأديب||The Man of Letters}}) was a literary magazine which was based in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded and edited by the Lebanese poet Albert Adib, and its title was a reference to his surname.<ref name=alarabi/> The magazine existed between 1942 and 1983.
==History and profile== ''Al Adib'' was started in Beirut in January 1942.<ref name=alarabi/><ref name=ibref>{{cite journal|author1=Ibrahim Mahfouz Abdou|author2=Refqa Abu-Remaileh|title=A Literary Nahda Interrupted: Pre-Nakba Palestinian Literature as Adab Maqalat|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |year=2022|volume=51|issue=3|pages=27,30,35|doi=10.1080/0377919X.2022.2103329|s2cid=251845824}}</ref> Its founder and editor was the poet Albert Adib.<ref name=alarabi/><ref name=palm/><ref name=smor/> In addition to literary work, ''Al Adib'' covered articles on arts, science, politics and sociology.<ref name="palm">{{cite web|url=https://palarchive.org/index.php/Detail/objects/234002/lang/en_US|title=Part 12 of Al Adib Magazine, December 1969|publisher=The Palestinian Museum|access-date=15 March 2023}}</ref> The magazine supported modernism<ref name=ibref/> and became an outlet for intellectuals from different backgrounds.<ref name=gotz>{{cite book|author=Götz Nordbruch|editor=Israel Gershoni |title=Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism. Attraction and Repulsion|year=2014|isbn=978-1477307571|location=Austin, TX|page=51|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.7560/757455-004|publisher=University of Texas Press|chapter=A Challenge to the Local Order: Reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese Press|doi=10.7560/757455-004|s2cid=240104639}}</ref> The magazine supported the view that poems should not be necessarily dependent on meter encouraging prose-like poems.<ref name=smor>{{cite journal|author=S. Moreh|title=Poetry in Prose (al-Shi'r al-Manthūr) in Modern Arabic Literature|journal=Middle Eastern studies|date=July 1968|volume=4|issue=4 |pages=352–353|jstor=4282260|doi=10.1080/00263206808700109}}</ref>
''Al Adib'' folded after the publication of the issue dated August–December 1983.<ref name=alarabi>{{cite web|title=ألبير أديب ومجلة «الأديب» |publisher=Al Arabi|url=https://alarabi.nccal.gov.kw/Home/Article/20328|access-date=15 March 2023|language=ar}}</ref> Some of its issues were archived by the Palestinian Museum.<ref name=palm/>
==Contributors== ''Al Adib'' featured articles not only by Lebanese writers, but also by other Arab figures from various countries. Their ideological origins were not homogenous.<ref name=gotz/> However, they all had the belief that individual rights were the cornerstone of the civic order.<ref name=gotz/>
Its major Lebanese contributors included Raif Khoury, Omar Fakhoury, Elias Abu Shabaki, Elias Khalil Zakharia, Michel Trad and Gabriel Jabbour.<ref name=alarabi/><ref name=gotz/> Other regular contributors were Wadih Palestine from Egypt, Edmond Rabbath from Syria<ref name=gotz/> Issa Naouri,<ref name=alarabi/> and Thurayyā Malḥas, from Jordan.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Rose Ghurayyib|title=Thorayya Malhas. A Pioneer from Jordan|url=http://alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/article/view/1331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022032313/http://alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/article/view/1331|url-status=usurped|archive-date=22 October 2021|journal=Al-Raida Journal|date=May 1985|volume=IV|issue=32 |page=3}}</ref> In the first issue dated January 1942 the Lebanese journalist Gebran Andraos Tueni published an article in which he argued that not dictatorial rules but democratic states should be supported.<ref name=gotz/> Poet Salah Al Asir published a controversial article in 1944 in ''Al Adib'' in which he developed a categorization of the contemporary Arab poets by their country of origin.<ref name=ibref/> However, he did not mention any poet of the Palestinian origin in the list.<ref name=ibref/> Another contributor Ishaq Musa Al Husseini argued that access to the Palestinian poets and other literary figures was not easy for readers due to the fact that they did not publish books, but limited their contributions to certain magazines.<ref name=ibref/>
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