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Modern Arab Association

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Modern Arab Association
Founded1960; 64 years ago (1960)
FounderHamdi Mustafa
Country of originEgypt
Headquarters locationFaggala, Cairo, Egypt
Publication typesBooks and magazines
ImprintsRewayat

The Modern Arab Association (Arabic: المؤسسة العربية الحديثة, Al-Muʾassasa al-ʿArabiyya al-Ḥadītha; The Modern Arabic Institute) is an Egyptian publishing house.

Established by Hamdi Mustafa in 1960, it published reference and revision school books for Egyptian school children, including the Silāḥ al-Tilmīdh (The Student's Weapon) series.[1]

In 1984 it started publishing several book series in the Arabic language under the name Rewayat (Egyptian Pocket Novels). That series was particularly popular "during the 1980s and 1990s".[2] The Modern Arab Association has been the official publisher and distributor of Rewayat to all over the Arabic-speaking world.

The first authors writing for the Modern Arab Association in this period were Nabil Farouk and Sharif Shawqi.[1]

Book series

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More than 40 series have been published including:

References

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  1. ^ a b Basilius Bawardi and Alif Faranesh, Non-canonical "Arabic Detective Fiction: The Beginnings of the Genre", Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 18(2018):30ff. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ^ * Ayesha Almazroui, If we want to keep Arabic alive, don’t blame English, thenational.ae. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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