Modern Arab Association
The Modern Arab Association (Arabic: المؤسسة العربية الحديثة, Al-Muʾassasa al-ʿArabiyya al-Ḥadītha; The Modern Arabic Institute) is an Egyptian publishing house. Established by Hamdi Mustafa in 1960, it published reference and revision school books for Egyptian school children, including the Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon) series. In 1984 it started publishing several book series in the Arabic language under the name Rewayat (Egyptian Pocket Novels).
Modern Arab Association
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- Modern Arab Association
- Founded
- 1960
- Headquarters
- Egypt
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The Modern Arab Association (Arabic: المؤسسة العربية الحديثة, Al-Muʾassasa al-ʿArabiyya al-Ḥadītha; The Modern Arabic Institute) is an Egyptian publishing house. Established by Hamdi Mustafa in 1960, it published reference and revision school books for Egyptian school children, including the Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon) series. In 1984 it started publishing several book series in the Arabic language under the name Rewayat (Egyptian Pocket Novels).
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That series was particularly popular "during the 1980s and 1990s". The Modern Arab Association has been the official publisher and distributor of Rewayat to all over the Arabic-speaking world. The first authors writing for the Modern Arab Association in this period were Nabil Farouk and Sharif Shawqi.
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• Name — Modern Arab Association • Founder — Hamdi Mustafa • Headquarters — Faggala, Cairo, Egypt • Country — Egypt • Publications — Books and magazines • Imprints — Rewayat
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Book series
More than 40 series have been published including: • Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon) • Ragol Al Mostaheel (The Man of the Impossible). • Malaf Al Mostakbal (The Future File). • Al Maktab Raqam 19 (Office No. 19). • Kūktīl 2000: Mā Warāʾal-Ṭabīʿa (Cocktail 2000)
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The following is established of the heading itself. Institutional cataloguing adds that modern Arab Association is recorded from 1960. It is also recorded that modern Arab Association is associated with Egypt.
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- 1.Basilius Bawardi and Alif Faranesh, Non-canonical "Arabic Detective Fiction: The Beginnings of the Genre", Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 18(2018):30ff. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- 2.* Ayesha Almazroui, If we want to keep Arabic alive, don’t blame English, thenational.ae. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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