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Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
- Author(s):
- Elizabeth M. Holt (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- 2019 MLA Convention
- Subject(s):
- Cold War (1945-1989), Arabic literature, Capitalism, History, Spying, Area studies, Literature, Modern
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Beirut, Cold War, History of capitalism, Surveillance studies, Modern Arabic literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ghqw-w308
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT Extensively quoting from the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, a Cold War organization founded as a CIA front in 1950, this chapter provides a history for their Arabic literary activities, including the journals Aṣwāt, Adab, and their best known work in the region: Ḥiwār (1962–67), edited by Palestinian poet Tawfīq Ṣāyigh from Beirut with broad dissemination in the Arab world. The chapter also outlines the CCF’s other interventions in the Arab cultural sphere from 1955 in the wake of Bandung. Over the course of its nearly five-year run, Ḥiwār and other CCF journals published both emerging and established authors, serving as a register of some of the most important Arab historians, critics, essayists, short-story writers, novelists and poets of the 1960s, including Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, Ghādah al-Sammān, Albert Hourani, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā, Walīd al-Khālidī, Zakariyyā Tāmir, Laylā Baʿalbakī, Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd al-Ṣubūr, Salmā al-Khaḍrāʾ al-Jayyūsī, Ṣabrī Ḥāfiẓ, Luwịs ʿAwaḍ, Fuʾād al-Takarlī, al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ and Yūsuf Idrīs. Ḥiwār also published CCF-supplied interviews with major international cultural figures such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Arthur Miller, Ernest Hemingway, György Lukács, Aldous Huxley, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Picasso, and letters from CCF representatives and authors across the world.
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- Published as:
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
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