Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings
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Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings was a trilingual quarterly magazine, the issuing of which started in 1968. It was a left-wing magazine that introduced Arab, African and Asian countries' literature and culture. Until the late 1970s, the Arabic edition was printed in Cairo, and the English and French edition in the German Democratic Republic. The magazine was available to writers' unions and through subscription to libraries; the issues were also sold in some bookstores in African and Asian countries.[1][2] In the aftermath of the Arab boycott of Egypt following the Camp David agreements and the assassination of Youssef El-Sebai in Cyprus, secretary-general of Afro-Asian Writers' Association (AAWA) and editor-in-chief of the magazine, Lotus moved to Beirut. The Pakistani emigré Faiz Ahmed Faiz was chosen as the editor-in-chief in 1978.
The magazine devoted plenty of attention to supporting the Palestinian cause. Thus, Lotus under Faiz and Muin Bseiso published a 1983 double issue on Palestine, put together after the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
Sometime after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Lotus was relocated to Tunisia. The Palestinian writer Ziad Abdel Fattah took over the post of the editor-in-chief after Faiz's death in 1984. He tried to adopt a more liberal stance (later attributing the magazine's failure to Faiz's and Bseiso's commitment to communism).
In the early 1990s, Lotus discontinued due in part to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had provided much of the funding in the last, Tunis phase of Lotus.[1]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Afro-Asian Third-Worldism into Global South: The Case of Lotus Journal | Global South Studies, U.Va". Globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ According to Sumayya Kassamali, nowadays, too, "[o]verpriced copies of Lotus may be found shelved in one of the [Beirut] antique bookshops - https://caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/you-had-no-address-faiz-beirut
Sources[edit]
- Hala Halim Afro-Asian Third-Worldism into Global South: The Case of Lotus Journal
- Sumayya Kassamali “You Had No Address”. Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Beirut
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