How to Pronounce Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat
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Feb 04, 1885 Died on 12 May 1968 (aged 83)
Egyptian teacher, scholar, and publisher
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About Ahmad Hasan Al Zayyat
- Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat (Arabic: ???? ??? ???????) was an influential Egyptian political writer and intellectual who established the Egyptian literary magazine al-Risala, described as "the most important intellectual weekly in 1930s Egypt and the Arab world." Born in the village of Kafr Demira, Talkha 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.
- He edited ar-Risala, a literary magazine published in Cairo. He sharply criticized Nazism and the ideology's racist views.
