احمد زکی أبو شادي ومساھمتہ في تطویر النثر الحدیث

Abstract

Dr. Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892-1955) was an Egyptian
Romantic poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist
and bee scientist. Abu Shadi is best known in Egypt for
having founded the influential poetry journal Apollo (1932–
34), an important vehicle for experimental Arabic poetry in
Egypt and beyond, which he designed and published.
He established a group of poets known as "Apollo's
Society" or The Apollo School whose members and
contributors included artists and poets from beyond Egypt's
borders and across the Arab world.
Abu Shadi wrote poetry, as well as essays on social reform,
Islam, politics, and the arts. Abu Shadi did research on
Arabic poetics and wrote articles of literary criticism. In
addition to Apollo, he published the magazine Adabi ("My
Literature") in Alexandria starting from 1939. In April
1946 he moved to the USA. He edited newspapers and
magazines of the Arab community in New York and was a
professor of Arabic literature at the Asiatic Institute. He
wrote articles of literary criticism, and lyric qasidas, stories,
opera librettos and plays in verse. He translated Eastern and
Western European poets, including the ghazals of Hafiz,
the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the tragedies of
Shakespeare.