Tawfiq Kezma and Mikha'il Nu'Ayme: Acquaintance and Cooperation (On the Basis of Archival Documents)
Тауфік Кезма і Михаїл Нуайме: знайомство та співробітництво (за матеріалами архівних документів)

Yu. Petrova, A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, NAS of Ukraine. 4, Hrushevskoho Str., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine
2021 The World of the Orient  
The article examines the history of acquaintance and cooperation between Tawfiq Kezma , the Arabist of Syrian descent who lived in Kyiv, and the outstanding Lebanese writer Mikha'il Nu'ayme (Mikhail Naimy) , on the basis of unpublished archival materials. Kezma's correspondence with the Academician Ignaty Krachkovsky illustrates that, upon the request of the latter, he made effort to find information about Nu'ayme in the late 1920s. It was Kezma who found out that a different surname (Yuzefa)
more » ... d been attached to Nu'ayme during his study at Poltava Theological Seminary (1906)(1907)(1908)(1909)(1910)(1911).
doi:10.15407/orientw2021.02.084 fatcat:vvmqwfoxtvcrvgtuhqbhz53hr4