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Raif Khoury
Raif Khoury (1913–1967) was a Lebanese writer, poet, essayist, novelist and playwright who was born in Nabay, Lebanon towards the beginning of the twentieth century. He went to school in the neighboring town of Brummana to Broummana High School, where he started writing poetry at a very early age. He joined the American University of Beirut as an Arabic literature and history major and graduated with a BA in 1932. Even before he graduated, he started writing in literary magazines and papers such as al-Barq and al-Adeeb which were issued in Beirut at the time. During his lifetime, Khoury wrote more than 20 books and numerous articles in many of the literary magazines and journals as well as daily newspapers of his time.
Books and articles by Raif Khoury
Modern Arab Thought. Translation of al Fikr al-'Arabi al-hadith (in Arabic), introduction by Charles Philip Issawi, Ihsan AbbasTranslator. Kingston Press, 1983. 227 pages
Thawrat baydaba(in Arabic). Beirut: Matba‘at Rawdat al-Funun, 1936.
Huquq al-insan: min ayna wa ila ayna al-masir?(in Arabic). Damascus: Matba‘at IbnZaydun, 1937.
‘Taqrir al-lajna al-tahdhiriyya fi mu’tamar mukafaha al-fashistiyya’ (in Arabic).al-Tali‘a,no. 5 (May 1939): 349 – 58.
‘Firansa ‘amin 1789’ (in Arabic).al-Tali‘a, no. 7 (July 1939): 545 – 64.
Ma‘alim al-wa‘i al-qawmi (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar al-Makshuf, 1941.
“Arabi janthur ila al-‘alam’ (in Arabic). al-Tariq, no. 8 (30 April 1942): 2 – 3, 21 – 4.
Turath al-qawmi al-‘arabi. Beirut: Manshurat Majallat al-Tariq, 1942.
‘A insan faiq am wahish’ (in Arabic).al-Makshuf, no. 377 (15 Dec. 1944): 6 – 8.
Al-adab al-masul (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 1989.
Turath al-qawmi
Books and articles on Raif Khoury
Götz Nordbruch and Malakeh Khoury. Raif Khoury. In Twentieth-century Arabic writers: Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Majd Al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick (South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2008)
Al-Badawi al-Mulaththam. ‘Faqid al-adab al-‘arabi raif khuri’ (in Arabic).al-Adib, no. 3 (March 1968): 52 – 3.
Götz Nordbruch. Defending the French Revolution during World War II: Raif Khoury and the Intellectual Challenge of Nazism in the Levant. Mediterranean Historical Review. Published online: 15 Feb 2007 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09518960601030142
Tawq, Antoine. Raif Khoury. Dissertation. Faculty of Education, Lebanese University. 1973‘Ulabi, Ahmad. ‘Raif khuri (1913 – 1967). Masira adib mukafih’ (in Arabic).al-Mashriq, no.2 (Aug. – Dec. 2005): 353 – 77.
Al-Hilu, Yussuf Khattar. ‘Ma‘a raif khuri’ (in Arabic). al-Tariq, no. 1 (Feb. 1989): 126 – 30.
Dakrub, Muhammad. 'Min masirat raif khuri’ (in Arabic).al-Tariq, no. 1 (Feb. 1989): 135 – 47
Abdulrazak Eid. ‘Raif khuri wa “ma‘alim al-wa‘i al-qawmi” — juzur al-tabi‘iyya fi-l-fikr al-qawmi’. al-Nahj20 (1988): 216 – 25
Abdulrazak Eid. Madkhal ila fikr raif khuri(in Arabic)An introduction to the thought of Raif Khoury. Nicosia: Ibal, 1990
Idriss, Samah. Raif khuri wa turath al-‘arab (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 1986
Issawi, Charles. Introduction to Modern Arab Thought: Channels of the French Revolution to the Arab East, by Raif Khoury. Translated by Ihsan Abbas. Princeton: Kingston Press, 1983.
Sadiq, Habib. ‘Raif khuri: kayfa raa ila sahyuniyya, kayfa nadala fi muqawamatiha’ (in Arabic).al-Tariq, no. 1 (Feb. 1989): 84 – 107.
Mruwa, Karim. ‘Al-muthaqqaf wa al-thawra. haqaiq ‘an raif khuri’ (in Arabic).al-Tariq, no.1(Feb. 1989): 5 – 18.
Yussuf Khattar. ‘Ma‘a raif khuri’ (in Arabic). al-Tariq, no. 1 (Feb. 1989): 126 – 30. Dakrub, Muhammad. 'Min masirat raif khuri’ (in Arabic).al-Tariq5 KB (669 words) - 02:33, 1 October 2018
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