Jirji Zaydan Collection, 1900-1938Jirji Zaydan, (1861-1914), a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, Born in Beirut, joined the Syrian Protestant College Medical School for a few years to leave it in 1882 following the Edwin Lewis issue. Zaydan moved to Cairo where he established “Dar al Hilal" publishing house in 1892. The collection includes Jirji Zaydan’s correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts and English translation of his Novel “the Virgin of Koreish. Zaydan.(Intellectual History, Publishing, Newspapers)
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