Niqula Haddad was a Syrian Socialist, and was brother in law to Farah Antun.

Early life

Niqula Haddad was born into an orthodox family in 1870.[1]

Education

Haddad went to the American secondary school at Sidon, and later studied pharmacy at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, as a pharmacist.[1]

Career

Sometime after 1900, Haddad would move to Egypt and marry Farah Antun's sister, Ruza.[2] Later on, he would work for his brother in law on his journal, al-Jami'ah, in New York. After the failure of the journal, Haddad would go back to Egypt and continue his writing career there, and would eventually write a ladies' magazine, al-Sayyidat, from 1948 to 1950. Sometime around the magazine, he was also editing for the magazine al-Muqtataf. In 1906 he published a novel Hawa al-Jadida aw Yvonne Monar (The New Eve, or Yvonne Monar)[1][3]

Politics

Like some other prominent socialists, Haddad believed in a planned economy, and pointed to the Egyptian governments' control over utilities like railroads and telephones as evidence for the plausibility of such a thing. Haddad believed the implementation of socialism should be through democratic means, where a socialist party educates the people sufficiently to win power in the government and implement socialist policies.[1]

Death

Niqula Haddad died in 1954.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Reid, Donald M. “The Syrian Christians and Early Socialism in the Arab World.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1974, pp. 177–193. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/162588.
  2. ↑ Beth Baron (1997). The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press. Yale University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-300-07271-6. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Matti Moosa (1997). The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 403. ISBN 978-0-89410-684-2. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
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