Fiction in Modern Arabic (Article Sample)

Modern Arabic Fiction
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Novels and Poetry
Arabic novels begun early in 1929 and one of the most successful printing of Zaynab were done by Muhammad Husayn Haykal. It is during the Nahda translational period that neo-classical groups were evolving and resulted to rediscovery of traditional genres such as Maqama with novels like "One Thousand Nights”. The neo-classical group translated Western traditional genres of novel writing into Arabic Language. Between 19th and early 20th century reproduction of original narrative writings on different genres to Novels writting was created by authors from the Middle East such as Zaynab, Francis Marrash, Jurji Zaydan And Ahad Fari Shidyaq. Hence, Novel translation into modern Arabic work was a gradual translation that took place for many years. In today’s Arabic World, novelists are centered into family like dramas in their describe social- economic situations in the Arabic world in their writing. Modern Arabic novelllists include Naguib Mahfuz a Nobel Peace Laureate in 1988.
Literature
Modern Arabic fiction begun during the Islamic Golden age that emerged many poets and narrative writers and it was the basis of revealing of modern holly Quran. It is in this period that Arabic poetry writers integrated the changing political and economic satiations in their outcries into their writing. According to some artists they criticized the government work an in doing so they were imprisoned while those supporting governments were recognized by being given better working positions in the society. Taha Hussein and Nawal El-Saadawi are some of those recognized for nationalism work in Egypt and women rigts campaigns respectively.
Plays
Maron Naccache is famous for the musical plays that translated to Modern Arabic Theaters and a world known theatre; tthe Lebanon theatre. Other plays known into modern Arabic plays can be traced from the Quran from Tawfiq al-Hakim who translated epilogue of Seven Sleepers, while Yusuf al-Ani played "Thousands of One Night" in Iraq. Modern day poetics are becoming mo...