Al-Muqtataf (magazine)

The Arabic journal al-Muqtaṭaf (Arabic: المقتطف; DMG: al-Muqtaṭaf; English: "Elite") was founded in 1876 by the Arabic Christians Yaqʿūb Ṣarrūf (1852-1927) and Fāris Nimr (1856-1951) at the Syrian Protestant College (SPC, today American University of Beirut) in Beirut. Both of them graduated there with a Bachelor of Arts and Science and worked afterwards as lecturers. Ṣarrūf who had made a name himself as an important science journalist and promoter of the modern Arabic literature, was interested predominantly in scientific and literary topics. Nimr on the other hand dedicated himself additionally to current politics. The third publisher Šāhīn Makāriyūs (1853-1910) who was also a journalist, was responsible for the printing technology and he developed this already in the production of the

Al-Muqtataf (magazine)

The Arabic journal al-Muqtaṭaf (Arabic: المقتطف; DMG: al-Muqtaṭaf; English: "Elite") was founded in 1876 by the Arabic Christians Yaqʿūb Ṣarrūf (1852-1927) and Fāris Nimr (1856-1951) at the Syrian Protestant College (SPC, today American University of Beirut) in Beirut. Both of them graduated there with a Bachelor of Arts and Science and worked afterwards as lecturers. Ṣarrūf who had made a name himself as an important science journalist and promoter of the modern Arabic literature, was interested predominantly in scientific and literary topics. Nimr on the other hand dedicated himself additionally to current politics. The third publisher Šāhīn Makāriyūs (1853-1910) who was also a journalist, was responsible for the printing technology and he developed this already in the production of the