Khalil al-Hindawi

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Khalil Al Hindawi خليل الهنداوي
Born1906
Died1976(1976-00-00) (aged 69–70)
Aleppo, Syria
NationalitySyrian, Lebanese
Occupation(s)Poet, writer and educator
Years active1924–1976
Employer(s)Arab Cultural Center, Arab Writers Union Aleppo
Notable workStudied Texts
AwardsThe Honor Medal of Syrian Merit, First Class

Khalil Al Hindawi (1906, Sidon – 1976, Aleppo) was a Syrian writer and poet.[1]

Early life[edit]

Hindawi finished his studies at Al Makasid Islamic and Charitable Association in Saïda in 1924, and started teaching there when he was 17 years old.[citation needed] He was exiled from Lebanon by French authorities after delivering a poem in a national ceremony, welcoming Riad as-Solh, who was coming back from his exile for the first time in 1928.[citation needed] He was sent to Syria, and he stayed in Damascus during the First World War.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

In 1929, he worked as a teacher at Deir ez-Zor high school in Syria, and started writing in Al Risala and Al Muktataf magazines.[citation needed] In 1939, he moved to Aleppo at the request of Saadallah al-Jabiri (later to become Prime Minister of Syria in 1943). He taught in Aleppo high schools until his retirement in 1966.[citation needed]

Hindawi is considered by the Syrian Ministry of Education to be the first teacher who knew the value of the text and was interested in analyzing it and offering insights into the form of a literature review.[citation needed] He did that in the 1930s, when people were only repeating the translation of the writers at that time, and totally depending on literary historians' provisions.[citation needed]

He was appointed Director of the Arab Cultural Center of Aleppo in 1958.[citation needed]

He was a member of the United Arab Republic delegation to the Asian-African writers' conference that was held in Tashkent in 1958.[citation needed]

He was a member of the Syrian delegation to the first Arab writers conference that was held in Beit Mery, Lebanon in 1954.[citation needed]

He was a member of the Syrian delegation to the Asian-African writers' conference that was held in Beirut in 1967.[citation needed]

He was a member of the Syrian delegation to the Arab writers' conference that was held in Damascus in 1971.[citation needed]

He held the presidency of the Arab Writers Union in Aleppo until his death in 1976.[citation needed]

A ceremony in the honor of Khalil Al hindawi was organized by the Arab Writers Union and the faculty of Arts at Aleppo University in March 1974.[citation needed] The occasion was to mark half a century of his literary work.[citation needed]

On 27 November 1976, he was granted the Honor Medal of Syrian Merit, First Class.[citation needed]

Works[edit]

  • Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973–1057. Tajdīd Risālat al-ghufrān [taʼlīf] 1965
  • Yawm al-Yarmūk 1974
  • Mukhtārāt min al-aʻmāl al-kāmilah / Khalīl al-Hindāwī ; iʻdād ʻUmar al-Daqqāq, Walīd Ikhlāṣī. 1980
  • Min ajwāʼ al-Sharq : Hārūt wa-Mārūt 2008
  • Tajdīd Risālat al-ghufrān. 1965
  • Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm, shāʻir al-Nīl.
  • Damʻat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn. 1958
  • Yawm Dāḥis wa-al-Ghabrāʼ. 1974
  • Ayyām al-ʻArab. 1974
  • Ayyām al-ʻIrāq. 1974
  • Maa̕ al-imām ʻAlī. 1962
  • Yawm al-Basūs. 1974
  • Yawm al-Qādisīyah. 1974
  • Muntakhab min al-Aghānī. 1967
  • Taysīr al-inshāʼ.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Khalil Al Hindawi" (in French). Larousse. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Library of Congress".