{{Short description|Arabic literary magazine (1981–2008)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | editor2 = Mahmoud Darwish | editor_title2 = Editor-in-chief | frequency = | circulation = | category = Literary magazine | company = | publisher = | founder = Mahmoud Darwish | founded = 1981 | firstdate = | finaldate = 2008 | based = {{ubl|Beirut|Nicosia|Paris|Ramallah}} | country = {{ubl|Lebanon|Cyprus|France|Palestine}} | language = Arabic | issn = | oclc = | website = }} '''''Al Karmel''''' was a literary magazine which existed between 1981 and 2008. The magazine is known for its founder and editor Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian writer. It was based in various cities during its run.
==History and profile== ''Al Karmel'' was established by Mahmoud Darwish in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1981.<ref name=yam>{{cite web|title=Al-Karmel Magazine |publisher=Yasser Arafat Museum|url=https://yam.ps/page-12214-en.html|access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref> Darwish edited the magazine until his death.<ref name=yam/><ref name=dyer>{{cite journal|author=Rebecca Dyer|title=Poetry of Politics and Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish's Genre-Transforming Tribute to Edward W. Said|journal=PMLA|volume=122|issue=5|year=2007|doi=10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1447|pages=1447–1462|s2cid=153945860 }}</ref> Its publisher was Al Karmel Cultural Foundation.<ref name=yam/> Elias Khoury was the editor of the magazine between 1981 and 1982.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|author=Farah Aridi|title=Elias Khoury|url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12852|encyclopedia=The Literary Encyclopedia|editor=Rita Sakr|year=2019|volume=6}}</ref>
Following the Palestine Liberation Organization's departure from Beirut in 1982 the magazine's headquarters moved to Nicosia, Cyprus, where it was printed until 1996.<ref name=palqu/><ref name=encyc/> The associate editor of the magazine when it was headquartered in Nicosia was Salim Barakat, a Syrian writer.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Salim Barakat|url=https://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/118/salim-barakat/ |magazine=Banipal|access-date=5 January 2024}}</ref> Next Darwish published the magazine in Paris.<ref name=palqu>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.palquest.org/en/biography/6550/mahmoud-darwish|title=Mahmoud Darwish|encyclopedia=Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question}}</ref> Then it was restarted in Ramallah, Palestine.<ref name=encyc>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Karmel, Al |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/karmel-al|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |quote=Citing ''Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict''}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Muhammad Siddiq|editor=Philip Mattar |title=Encyclopedia of The Palestinians|year=2005|publisher=Facts On File, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=978-0816057641|page=116|edition=Revised |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkbzYoZtaJMC&pg=PA116|chapter=Darwish, Mahmoud|editor-link=Philip Mattar}}</ref>
Darwish published many poems in ''Al Karmel'', including prose poems.<ref name=dyer/> One of his prose poems was about the events occurred on 6 June 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon and was featured in the magazine in 1986.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Hania A. M. Nashef|title=Two memories: Darwish and Shehadeh recount their days under siege|journal=Prose Studies|volume=38|issue=3 |year=2016|doi=10.1080/01440357.2016.1269452| page=222|s2cid=164576830}}</ref> Edward Said was a regular contributor of the magazine, and through his literary critics Said became known in the Arab world.<ref name=mabueid/> Said's contributions also made Mahmoud Darwish's poems much more eminent.<ref name=mabueid/> Arab and Israeli writers contributed to the title in addition to international ones such as Russell Banks, J. M. Coetzee and José Saramago.<ref name=encyc/> The magazine featured short stories and essays written by the Palestinian writer Asia Shibli.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Amal Eqeiq|title=From Haifa to Ramallah (and Back): New/Old Palestinian Literary Topography|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|volume=48|issue=3 (191)|year=2019|jstor=26873214|page=29}}</ref>
The headquarters of ''Al Karmel'' in Ramallah was destroyed by the Israeli army in April 2002.<ref name=encyc/>
''Al Karmel'' folded in 2008.<ref name=mabueid>{{cite journal|author=Muna Abu Eid|title=Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation|year=2016 |pages=144,146|journal=Bustan: The Middle East Book Review|volume=7|issue=2|doi=10.5325/bustan.7.2.0143}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{cite web|url=https://www.alkarmel.org/prenumber/prenumber.html|website=Al Karmel|title=Some issues of ''Al Karmel''|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014095945/https://www.alkarmel.org/prenumber/prenumber.html|archive-date=14 October 2023}}
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