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(') | birth_date = 1889 or 1890 | birth_place = Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate | death_date = 1957|11|23 | death_place = | occupation = poet, journalist, publisher | nationality = | period = | genre = poetry | subject = | movement = Mahjar, New York Pen League | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | website = }} Elia Abu Madi (also known as Elia D. Madey; (アラビア語:إيليا أبو ماضي) '〔Lebanese Arabic Transliteration: , .〕) (1889 or 1890 – 23 November 1957) was a Lebanese-American poet. ==Life and career== Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1889 or 1890. At the age of 11 he moved to Alexandria, Egypt where he worked with his uncle. In 1911, Elia Abu Madi published his first collection of poems, ''Tazkar al-Madi''. That same year he left Egypt for the United States, where he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1916 he moved to New York and began a career in journalism. In New York Abu Madi met and worked with a number of Arab-American poets including Khalil Gibran. He married the daughter of Najeeb Diab, editor of the Arabic-language magazine ''Meraat ul-Gharb'', and became the chief editor of that publication in 1918. His second poetry collection, ''Diwan Iliya Abu Madi'', was published in New York in 1919; his third and most important collection, ''Al-Jadawil'' ("The Streams"), appeared in 1927. His other books were ''Al-Khama'il'' (1940) and ''Tibr wa Turab'' (posthumous, 1960). In 1929 Abu Madi founded his own periodical, ''Al-Samir'', in Brooklyn. It began as a monthly but after a few years appeared five times a week. His poems are very well known among Arabs; journalist Gregory Orfalea wrote that "his poetry is as commonplace and memorized in the Arab world as that of Robert Frost is in ours."〔In ''A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City'', ed. Kathleen Benson, Syracuse University Press, 2002, page 62.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elia Abu Madi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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