Saad Malki
Saad (Yaakov) Malki (30 December 1898 – 20 May 1988) was an Egyptian Jewish educator, journalist, and Zionist.
Life and career
[edit]Saad Malki was born in Cairo. He began his career in journalism after the Balfour Declaration, when he published articles in Al-Ahram.[1] and Al Muqattam[2] in support of Zionism, Jewish-Arab unity,[3] and in defense of the rights of Jews in Egypt.[4] From 1924 he began working as the editor of the Arabic edition of the Egyptian news paper Israël.[5]
In 1934 Malki established the Arabic language Jewish weekly Ash-Shams,[6] which continued operating until it was shut down by Egyptian authorities in 1948.[7] Shortly after, he emigrated to Israel, where he began working as a translator and editor for the government newspaper Reshumot.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "In the Arab news - The land of Israel and the Balfour Declaration". Haaretz. 12 July 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ "A letter from Egypt". Palestine Daily Mail. 18 May 1930. p. 3. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "A call for Arab-Jewish unity". Haaretz. 1 March 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "Yom Kippur and banks in Cairo". Haaretz. 15 September 1924. p. 4. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "Israel for its seventh anniversary". Palestine daily mail. 6 January 1926. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "In the Israeli diaspora". Palestine daily mail. 17 September 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Joel Beinin (2005). The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 245–246. ISBN 978-977-424-890-0.
- ^ "Days with the Arab Israelis in Jaffa". Haaretz. 14 September 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 2 December 2023.