Khalil Beidas

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Khalil Beidas (18741949) was a Palestinian Christian scholar, educator, translator and novelist. Beidas was the father of Palestinian Lebanese banker Yousef Beidas and was a cousin of Edward Said's father according to Said's autobiography. Alongside contemporaries such as Khalil al-Sakakini, Muhammad Izzat Darwazeh and Najib Nassar, Beidas was one of Palestine's foremost intellectuals in the early twentieth century during the Al-Nahda cultural renaissance. Beidas was the pioneer of the modern Levantine short-story and novel. He was also a prolific translator-as early as 1898, he had translated some of the works of Tolstoy and Pushkin into Arabic. In addition, he established a magazine, an-Nafa'is al-'Asriyyah, which acquired a good name in literary circles both in the Ottoman vilayet of Syria (broadly corresponding to today's Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon) and the Palestinian Diaspora.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Khalil Beidas (18741949) was a Palestinian Christian scholar, educator, translator and novelist.