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Elia Abu Madi

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Elia Abu Madi

Born	إيليا أبو ماضي (Īlyā Abū Māḍī ) (1890-05-15)May 15, 1890 Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Syria
Died	November 23, 1957(1957-11-23) (aged 67) New York, United States of America
Occupation	Poet journalist publisher
Nationality	Lebanese
Genre	poetry
Literary movement	Mahjar (The Pen League), New York City
Relatives	^[1]

Elia Abu Madi (also known as Elia D. Madey; Arabic: إيليا أبو ماضي Īlyā Abū Māḍī ^{[note 1]}) (May 15, 1890 – November 23, 1957) was a Lebanese-born American poet.

Early life

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Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, on May 15, 1890 to a Greek Orthodox Christian family. At the age of 11 he moved to (Alexandria, Egypt) where he worked with his uncle.

Career and Works

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In 1911, Elia Abu Madi published his first collection of poems, Tazkar al-Madi. Shortly after, he was exiled by the Ottoman authorities^[2] and he left Egypt for the United States, where he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1916, he moved to New York City and began a career in journalism. In New York, Abu Madi met and worked with a number of Arab-American poets including Gibran Khalil Gibran. He married the daughter of Najeeb Diab, editor of the Arabic-language magazine Meraat-ul-Gharb, and became its chief editor in 1918. His second poetry collection, Diwan Iliya Abu Madi, was published in New York in 1919; his third and most important collection, Al-Jadawil ("The Streams"), appeared in 1927. His other books were Al-Khama'il ("The Thickets")^[3](1940) and Tibr wa Turab (posthumous, 1960).

In 1929, Abu Madi founded his own periodical, As-Samir, in Brooklyn. It began as a monthly but after a few years it was published five times a week.

His poems are very well known among Arabs; poet, author, and journalist Gregory Orfalea wrote that "his poetry is as commonplace and memorized in the Arab world as that of Robert Frost is in ours."^{[note 2]}

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^ Lebanese Arabic Transliteration: Īlya Abu Māḍi, pronounced [ˈʔiːlja (ʔa)buˈmɑːdi].
^ In A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, ed. Kathleen Benson, Syracuse University Press, 2002, page 62.

External links

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A photo of Elia Abu Madi as a member of Al-Rabita Al-Qalamiyya (The Pen League).

Scholarly criticism

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Ahmad, Imtyaz. "Abu Madi: A Voice of Modernity in Contemporary Arabic Poetry" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 15, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
Alawi, Nabil. "Arab American Poets: The Politics of Exclusion and Assimilation" (PDF).
Boullata, Issa J. "Iliya Abu Madi and the Riddle of Life in His Poetry" Journal of Arabic Literature, 1986; 17: 69-81. (journal article)
Nijland, Cornelis. "Religious Motifs and Themes in North American Mahjar Poetry" pp. 161–81 IN: Borg, Gert (ed. and introd.); De Moor, Ed (ed.); Representations of the Divine in Arabic Poetry. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi; 2001. 239 pp. (book article)
Romy, Cynthia Johnson. Diwan Al-Jadawil of Iliya Abu Madi (Masterʻs thesis, University of Arizona). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291551

References

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^ Marmorstein, Emile (October 1964). "Rāshid Husain: Portrait of an Angry Young Arab". Middle Eastern Studies. 1 (1): 3–20. doi:10.1080/00263206408700002.
^ Orfalea, Gregory (2002). Benson, Kathleen; Kayal, Philip (eds.). My Mother's Zither. New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0815607393.
^ Ahmad, Imtyaz. "Abu Madi: A Voice of Modernity in Contemporary Arabic Poetry" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 15, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2016.

Sources

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Library resources about
Elia Abu Madi

By Elia Abu Madi

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry, Brill, 1977.
Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill, 1980.
The New Anthology of American Poetry, eds. Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas J. Travisano, Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Orfalea, Gregory; Elmusa, Sharif, eds. (1999). Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry. New York: Interlink. pp. 65–82. ISBN 1566563380.
Poeti arabi a New York. Il circolo di Gibran, introduzione e traduzione di F. Medici, prefazione di A. Salem, Palomar, Bari 2009. ISBN 88-7600-340-1. ISBN 978-88-7600-340-0.

v t e Mahjar
The Pen League	Kahlil Gibran Mikhail Naimy Nasib Arida Abd al-Masih Haddad Nadra Haddad Elia Abu Madi Rashid Ayyub Wadi Bahout William Catzeflis Ameen Rihani
Usba	Shafiq al-Ma'luf
Riwaq al-Ma'arri	Sa'id Abu Hamza
Others	Afifa Karam Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
Publishers	Naoum Mokarzel Salloum Mokarzel Nageeb Arbeely Najeeb Diab
Newspapers	Al-Hoda Kawkab America Meraat-ul-Gharb
Magazines	Al-Funoon As-Sayeh The Syrian World
Places	Little Syria, NY São Paulo Buenos Aires

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