Mahjar

Resumen: Se relaciona la actividad literaria y periodística de Letizia Repetto, Mayy Ziyada y Mary Yanni de Atala con la creación de una identidad árabe-chilena. Palabras claves: inmigración árabe, mahŷar en Chile, prensa, identidad. Abstract: The literary and journalistic works of May Ziyada, Letizia Repetto and Mary Yanni de Atala is related to the creation of the arab-chilean identity.

A Google search that would combine the words "Martin" and "Fierro" in Arabic will refer us to what appears to be the only Arabic translation of the Martin Fierro, published in Cairo in 2016 (trans. by Abd al-Salam Basha). However, the first Arabic translation, almost unknown to the Arab world, was published 60 years before in Argentina. Carried out by the Syrian immigrant Yauad Nader, and published by the Syrian Cultural Association in Buenos Aires, this rare and limited edition circulated from hand to hand among Arab immigrants in Latin America. This article introduces Nader’s version of Jose Hernandez’ poem, and translates from Arabic to Spanish the edition’s paratext where Nader narrates his motives behind the translation, the methods he followed, and the literary decisions he had to make in order to create his version of the poem in modern Arabic.

Si buscamos, en lengua árabe, la combinación de las palabras "Martín" y "Fierro", el buscador de Google nos remitirá a lo que aparentemente es la única traducción del Martín Fierro: la realizada por el Abd al-Salam Basha y publicada en Egipto en 2016. Sin embargo, ésta ni es la primera ni la única: casi desconocida en el mundo árabe, la primera traducción del poema de José Hernández fue publicada 60 años antes en la misma Argentina por la Asociación Cultural Siria, realizada por el sirio argentino Yauad Nader. El libro, de tiraje corto y no especificado, fue circulado entre migrantes árabes en América Latina. Este artículo introduce y traduce, del árabe al español, el paratexto de esta rara edición, donde Nader explica sus motivos de traducir la obra, los métodos que ha seguido y las decisiones que ha tomado para traducir este poema argentino al árabe moderno.

This article investigates the role of the mahjar on the development of Arab nationalism, with a particular interest in Antoun Saadeh's experience in Latin America. Like many other Arab nationalism ideologues, he developed his conception of the "nation" during the years he spent abroad. His ideas were present in Suriya al-Jadida, a newspaper he published in Brazil from 1939 to 1941. I analyze three articles from that publication in order to understand how he reached out to the diaspora in Latin America and the role he expected it to play. With that, I emphasize the importance of the mahjar to the political thought of Arabic-speaking countries.

Les journalistes libanais, ambassadeurs des lettres arabes au Chili. L'Orient-Le Jour, nº 15554 (15 juillet 2019), p. 4.
https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1178873/les-journalistes-libanais-ambassadeurs-des-lettres-arabes-au-chili.html?fbclid=IwAR1R8niPHH5LPVu3gH3N6dShSarm9KxvlYXrRFx1Izi1IhdtC7JnEvL-jIo

Identified first as turks (turcos), the Syrian-Lebanese arriving to Brazil and Argentina quickly moved to publish newspapers and magazines in their native Arabic language. From the 1880s until the 1940s and between Buenos Aires and San Miguel de Tucuman, more than
twenty Arabic periodicals and newspapers were published in Argentina alone. These titles reflect a flourishing journalistic and literary movement among the Syrian-Lebanese migrant community in Argentina.
The Levantine cultural production in the Americas became soon a category of its own, known as al-Mahjar (Diaspora) literature. The actual paper is a study of this phenomenon among the immigrants with Syrian-Lebanese backgrounds.