Habouba Haddad

Habouba Haddad (1897-1957) is a Lebanese writer, journalist, and writer, owner of a Salon (gathering), and the owner of the first Lebanese women's magazine issued in Europe , which is the magazine New Life that she established in the French capital Paris in 1920, and then in Beirut. She is considered one of the leading Lebanese women in writing about Arab women's social issues and concerns, as well as literary issues. It is also considered one of the pioneers in presenting radio programs for children.</small>
Habbouba Haddad was born on March 15, 1897 in the town of Barouk, Choufia, and died on December 8, 1957. She is a mother of Fouad Haddad, one of the pioneers of writing Short story|short stories in Lebanon, and the writer who was the commentator of his daily column in the Kataeb work newspaper, signed “Abu El Han” He paid with his life a price for his satirical political comments on September 19, 1958, that is, a year after the death of his mother. 
Habouba studied French language|French alongside Arabic, then studied at the English School in Barouk, then moved to the English School in Shamlan, and attended some lessons at the American University of Beirut|American University. 
When Habouba was sixteen years old, she met Auguste-Maurice Barrès in her hometown with the French Orientalist Maurice Barrès (1862-1923), where she represented her school with a speech she gave in front of him, under the title: “The Future of the Educated” on the day of her graduation on July 3 ( July) 1913, so it was from this man that he carried her the best memory, then he wrote to her to meet him in France, the day she went and established her magazine. 
At the same age (i.e. at the age of sixteen), she married a relative, but this marriage ended after a short time, and his fruit was a son called Fuad (1915), and the divorce occurred when she was eighteen years old.
She received her studies at the American University of Beirut|American University of Beirut, in economics and politics (1920), but she did not practice her specialization, but she turned to literature, journalism and media.
Habbouba transformed :ar:شبلي_الملاط|Shibli Mallat's poem: “Between the Arabs and the Levant into a play, and joined the school associations ``Union of Young Women Christian and “The Sun Shining- ālšms ālmḍyʾə”, and headed the workers' branch of the “Workers Union Party in 1919.
After her graduation from university, Habbouba went to Paris to publish her magazine "The New Life"- [ālḥyāt ālǧdydə] in the year 1920, and he helped her to publish it, the orientalist Maurice Paris, and after one year on the release of the magazine, intensified by nostalgia for Lebanon, which was then languishing under the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|mandate, to recruit themselves She wanted to serve, serve the Arab cause, and then settled in Beirut, and continued to issue its magazine. 
The magazine lasted for about nine consecutive years, then it was forced to stop its publication after the mandate was sentenced to this, and the reason is that this mandate noticed the rapid spread of the magazine and the extent of its impact on the souls of the people of the nation, as it emerged from its small space as a women's magazine to a wider horizon and a wider space, The country's national and political issues, and Habuba had intellectual, cultural and women's relations, especially in Europe, where she met with men of thought, culture, politics and patriotism, especially since these media were exiled from their homelands such as Lebanon and Syria. 
When the magazine appeared, and the first issue arrived in New York, Mikhail Naima published a story about it in Al-Saih newspaper, in which he said:
“It is easy to wish (for the new life) success. It is not inferior to wishes. However, we are in doubt about the success of an Arab women's magazine in Paris. Not to mention that the need for it is little, given the magazines we have today. Is there no way for Mrs. Haddad to include her strength to the powers of her sisters, whether in Egypt or in Syria, instead of adding a magazine to their magazines?
Habbouba took part in the first part of Naima's proposal, so she moved her magazine to Beirut, and resumed its publication until 1926. A number of donor writers participated in editing, including the university student at the time, Saeed Taqi al-Din.
Habouba Haddad had another media activity, represented by presenting it through the Lebanese Radio House, before Radio Lebanon became a special program for children, in the year 1938, at the time of the French Mandate|French mandate over Lebanon. It can be said that her program was one of the first Arab radio programs of its kind, through it she addressed the children of Lebanon, and sought to educate them through short stories that mostly revolve around the village, beauty and the homeland in an interesting narrative style. Thus we can consider it a pioneer in the fields of children's literature and the radio programs through which it addressed children. 
Habbouba opened her literary salon in Beirut, and continued to host the most prominent cultural, intellectual and literary figures from 1948 to 1957, the year of her death. The salon was open to host both men and women. Among the names hosted by Habbouba Salon, it is possible to mention: Poets: أمين تقي الدين|Amin Taqi al-Din, a journalist, politician and editor of the Al-Zuhoor Magazine by Sheikh Antoun Gemayel. Shebli Mallat, one of the most prominent Arab poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Ramiz Sarkis is the director of Lisan Al Hal newspaper, and Ibn Khalil Sarkis is the owner of “Lisan Al Hal” magazine and Al Mishkat. Gebran Tueni, a journalist, politician and former minister, was the founder of Anصحيفة النهار|-Nahar newspaper in 1933. Ameen Nakhla, the writer, poet, and revolutionary, is a friend of the great Lebanese and Arab intellectuals and writers. He is the son of Rashid Nakhla, the author of the Lebanese anthem, and the student of the scholar Sheikh عبدالله بن ناصيف بن ميخائيل البستاني|Abdullah Al-Bustani. And Amin al-Rihani, a writer and traveler. And Tanios Abdo, the playwright. Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek, historian and owner of Lebanese papers. Michel Zakkour, Minister of Interior and Foreign Affairs under President Bechara El Khoury, is the founder of the exhibition newspaper (1921). Dawood Barakat is a journalist, writer, historian and politician, editor of Al-Ahram, about 34 years old. And Felix Fares, the writer, the lawyer, the preacher, and the translator of Nietzsche “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1938), Elias Abu Shabakah the poet, the Iraqi Maarouf al-Rusafi, the Egyptian Ahmad Shawqi, Sami Kayali, and Jamil Mardam, .... The salon also included Habib Pasha Al-Saad, the Lebanese Chairman and the Second President of the Lebanese Republic.
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The salon hosted women: Salma Sayegh, educator, writer, speaker, and journalist, and he contributed to the establishment of women's associations, such as Zahrat Al-Ihssan Society, Women Union Society, Women’s Renaissance Society, and Editor-in-Chief of the Woman’s Voice magazine. Princess Najla Abu Al-Lama is a journalist, writer, and the founder of Al-Fajr magazine in Beirut in 1919, and resumed publication in New York in 1921. Mary Yenny and Julia Tohme, who previously established her literary salon in 1917. 
The owner of the exhibition newspaper, Michel Zakour, asked her to write to the newspaper about her knowledge of Gibran Khalil Gibran
, so she wrote an article published in the newspaper's issue on May 3, 1931, which began by saying: She “hated Gibran”, after she read his Arabic writings, and what it included “crying, wailing and constant rebellion against Canons and traditions. ”
When I visited Boston, I participated with Gibran in a double lecture attended by 15,000 residents of the Bostonian community. I asked him before the lecture:
“Who are you Gibran?” So he put his hand on my shoulder, and said jokingly: I can believe you the news, and I am defenseless from the shovels, and the remains of the graves as you see. Then he took me to a chair placed next to him, so I sat soberly taking that character that was bestowed upon by the Semitic Latin culture. Analyze it, and by the brightness of that rectangular face that has been emptied into its composition, and its intersections are the verses of heavenly ingenuity, and how those eyes which I left yesterday, blotchy and sterile, flow with the lights of wisdom and knowledge. 
In another interview, Gibran asked the "enthusiastic and talented women", who is the competitor of Jerji Baz in championing women: "Why are you killing your sublime talents with politics, journalism and commerce?" And he answered: "Go back to your natural instinct and write in the day one line of your feelings and emotions, so that the year does not pass unless one of you collects 365 eternal lines." He asked his guest: “First you think that the one who said: Death touched my living statue, and became cold, has gardens of eternity? Come we write to Salma Sayegh and we will write more on this topic.” He asked again: “May you not know it and know that it is one of the signs of our time.” The meetings between Gibran and Habouba continued until his death in 1931. 
Habouba has many writings and published works. She was known for her quirky articles and her innovative style of criticism and sarcasm. Among her published works are:
* Ideas Puffs [nfṯāt ālʾfkār]
* Dawn Tears [dmwʿ ālfǧr]
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