Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat

Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat (Arabic: أحمد حسن الزيات‎) was an influential Egyptian political writer and intellectual who established the Egyptian literary magazine al-Risala,[1] described as "the most important intellectual weekly in 1930s Egypt and the Arab world."[2] Born in the village of Kafr Demira, Talkha[3] into what was then a peasant family, al-Zayyat studied at Al-Azhar University before taking up legal studies in Cairo and Paris; he taught Arabic literature at American University in Cairo, and for three years in Baghdad, before founding al-Risala in 1933.[4] He edited ar-Risala, a literary magazine published in Cairo.

Ahmed Hasan al-Zayyat
أحمد حسن الزيات
BornFebruary 4, 1885
DiedMay 12, 1968
NationalityEgyptian
EducationAl-Azhar University
OccupationWriter, Journalist

He sharply criticized Nazism and the ideology's racist views.[5]

References
  1. Drape, Joe (June 4, 2015). "Ahmed Zayat's Journey: Bankruptcy and Big Bets". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  2. Hegasy, Sonja (2010). "The Arabs and Nazi Germany: Collaborators and Antagonists". Qantara.de. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  3. حمد, أ خليل (2018-01-26). المقال الادبى عند العقاد (in Arabic). دار حميثرا للنشر والترجمة. ISBN 9789776563322.
  4. Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.; Gates, Jr., Henry Louis (2012). Dictionary of African biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 236. ISBN 9780195382075.
  5. Motadel, David (3 March 2016). "Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion, edited by Israel Gershoni". Middle Eastern Studies. 52 (2): 377–379. doi:10.1080/00263206.2015.1121872. S2CID 147486609.
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