Ikbal El Alaily (died 1984) also known as Iqbal El Alaily, was an Egyptian surrealist writer, and a co-founder of the journal, La Part du Sable.[1] She was associated with the Art et Liberté art group.[2]
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 non believer 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.[3]
El Alaily's 1945 anthology, The Virtue of Germany, made the case for German romanticism as a precursor of surrealism.[3]
After her husband's death in 1973, she prepared his unpublished work for publication.[3] She died in 1984.[4]
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
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