Mahmud Sadani
Mahmoud El-Saadany | |
|---|---|
| محمود عثمان إبراهيم السعدني | |
| Born | November 20, 1928 Giza, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Occupation(s) | writer, journalist |
Mahmoud El-Saadany or Mahmud Al-Saadani or Mahmoud el Saadani (November 20, 1928 - May 4, 2010[1]) was an Egyptian satirical journalist and writer.[2] He is considered one of the pioneers of satirical writing in the Arab press.[3] He is the older brother of the actor Salah El-Saadany. He participated in editing and founding a large number of Arab newspapers and magazines in Egypt and abroad. He headed the editorship of Sabah Al-Khair, an Egyptian magazine in the sixties. As a Nassirist[4], he also participated in political life during the reign of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and was imprisoned during the reign of Anwar Sadat after he was convicted of participating in a coup attempt.
He issued and headed the editorship of the July 23 magazine in his exile in London. He returned to Egypt from his self-imposed exile in 1982 after the assassination of Sadat and was received by President Mubarak. He had relations with a number of Arab rulers such as Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. He retired from journalism and public life in 2006 due to illness.
Early life and career
Mahmoud Othman Ibrahim El-Saadany was born in the Giza district of Greater Cairo. At the beginning of his journalistic career, he worked in a number of small newspapers and magazines that were published on Muhammad Ali Street in Cairo, after which he worked in the “Al-Kashkul” magazine, which was published by Mamoun Al-Shinnawi until its closure. Then he worked as a freelancer for some newspapers, such as Al-Masry newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Wafd Party. He also worked at Dar Al-Hilal. He also published, along with the cartoonist Toghan, a comic magazine that was shut down after a few issues.[5][6]
Works
El-Saadani’s works were all in Arabic In his books, he mainly used literary Arabic blended with Egyptian colloquialism as well of many satirical expressions he coined himself.[7]
As of the end of 2022, none of his works were known to be published in any language other than Arabic. His books include
- Egypt Revisited
- Amreeka ya Weeka
- A Donkey from the East
- Memoirs of the Mischievous Boy
- An Idler in the Lands of the African
- The Black Sky
References
- ^ mlynxqualey (2010-05-05). "Egyptian Satirist Mahmoud Al-Saadani Dies". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
- ^ Habashi, Fawzi (2020-08-10). Prisoner of All Generations: My Life in the Homeland. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-220858-8.
- ^ Manzalaoui, Mahmoud (1968). Arabic Writing Today: The Short Story. University of California Press.
- ^ Baker, Raymond William (2009-06-01). Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02045-0.
- ^ Vatikiotis, P. J. (2013-01-03). Egypt Since the Revolution (RLE Egypt). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-08709-8.
- ^ Authors, Various (2021-07-09). Routledge Library Editions: Egypt. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-15868-1.
- ^ el Kut, Dr. Abdel Kader (1955). On Contemporary Egyptian Literature (in Arabic). Cairo, Egypt. pp. 161–169.
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