Ikbal El Alaily

Ikbal El Alaily (died 1984) was an Egyptian surrealist writer, cofounder of the journal La Part du Sable.^[1]

Life[]

Ikbal El Alaily, known to friends as Boula, was a granddaughter of the poet Ahmed Shawqi. Her parents were Muslim, though she was already a nonbeliever by her teens. In 1939 she met and fell in love with Georges Henein. Despite parental opposition, the pair were inseparable, though they only formally married in 1954.^[2]

El Alaily's 1945 anthology, The Virtue of Germany, made the case for German romanticism as a precursor of surrealism.^[2]

After her husband's death in 1973, she prepared his unpublished work for publication.^[2] She died in 1984.^[3]

Works[]

Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]. Cairo: Editions Masses 1945
'De l'auteur considéré comme un jeune lapin' [Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rabbit], Le Part du Sable, No. 2, April 1950, pp. 30–2

References[]

^ Keith Aspley (2010). "El Alaily, Ikbal". Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. Scarecrow Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-8108-5847-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c Franklin Rosemont; Robin D.G. Kelley, eds. (2009). Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora. University of Texas Press. pp. 149–. ISBN 978-0-292-71997-2.
^ Penelope Rosemont (2000). "Ikbal El Alailly". Surrealist Women. A&C Black. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-567-17128-3.

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[Aspley2010-1] Keith Aspley (2010). "El Alaily, Ikbal". Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. Scarecrow Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-8108-5847-3.

[RosemontKelley2009-2] Franklin Rosemont; Robin D.G. Kelley, eds. (2009). Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora. University of Texas Press. pp. 149–. ISBN 978-0-292-71997-2.

[Rosemont2000-3] Penelope Rosemont (2000). "Ikbal El Alailly". Surrealist Women. A&C Black. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-567-17128-3.

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