Joseph Elian Sarkis

Joseph Elian Sarkis
Born	1856 Damascus
Died	1932 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
Occupation(s)	Writer, editor, translator, bookseller
Honours	Order of St. Gregory the Great

Joseph Elian Sarkis (1856–1932) was a Syrian-Egyptian writer and translator.

Born in Damascus in 1856, Joseph was a writer, translator, and bibliographer, he was also known for his activity as a bookseller-publisher in Cairo, where he settled in 1912.[1][2] He pursued his literary activity alongside a banking profession, as he worked for nearly 35 years as an employee at the Ottoman Imperial Bank in the branches of Beirut, Damascus, Cyprus, Ankara, and Constantinople.

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  Encyclopedic Dictionary of Arabic Bibliography, Published by J.E. Sarkis
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  Les naufragés de Spitzberg, by Louis Friedel, translated into Arabic by J.E. Sarkis
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  Five Weeks in a Balloon novel by Jules Verne translated into Arabic by J.E. Sarkis

References

1. "LC Catalog - Legacy Catalog Retired". catalog.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
2. Meho, Lokman I.; Nsouli, Mona (1999-08-30). Libraries and Information in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-31098-0.