Ikbal El Alaily

Ikbal El Alaily (died 1984) also known as Iqbal El Alaily, was an Egyptian surrealist writer, and a co-founder of the journal, La Part du Sable.[1] She was associated with the Art et Liberté art group.[2]

Life

Ikbal El Alaily, known to friends as Boula, was a granddaughter of the poet Ahmed Shawqi. Her parents were Muslim, though she was already a non believer by her teens. In 1939 she met and fell in love with Georges Henein. Despite parental opposition, the pair were inseparable, though they only formally married in 1954.[3]

El Alaily's 1945 anthology, The Virtue of Germany, made the case for German romanticism as a precursor of surrealism.[3]

After her husband's death in 1973, she prepared his unpublished work for publication.[3] She died in 1984.[4]

Works

  • Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]. Cairo: Editions Masses 1945
  • 'De l'auteur considéré comme un jeune lapin' [Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rabbit], Le Part du Sable, No. 2, April 1950, pp. 30–2

References

  1. ^ Keith Aspley (2010). "El Alaily, Ikbal". Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. Scarecrow Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-8108-5847-3.
  2. ^ "The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–65): Selected Timeline of Important Events". Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 49 (1): 246–249. 2021. ISSN 2152-7792.
  3. ^ a b c Franklin Rosemont; Robin D.G. Kelley, eds. (2009). Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora. University of Texas Press. pp. 149–. ISBN 978-0-292-71997-2.
  4. ^ Penelope Rosemont (2000). "Ikbal El Alailly". Surrealist Women. A&C Black. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-567-17128-3.


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