Yaqub Sanu (Arabic: يعقوب صنوع, ALA-LC: Yaʻqūb Ṣanūʻ, anglicized as James Sanua), also known by his pen name "Abu Naddara" (Arabic: أبو نظارةAbū Naẓẓārah "the man with glasses";[1] January 9, 1839 – 1912), was an Egyptian Jewish journalist, nationalist activist and playwright.[2] He was also a polyglot, writing in French, English, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, and Italian as well as both Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
^Sadgrove, Philip (1996). The Egyptian Theatre in the Nineteenth Century: 1799-1882. ISBN 9780863722028.
^"Heroes – Trailblazers of the Jewish People". Beit Hatfutsot.
YaqubSanu (Arabic: يعقوب صنوع, ALA-LC: YaʻqūbṢanūʻ, anglicized as James Sanua), also known by his pen name "Abu Naddara" (Arabic: أبو نظارة Abū Naẓẓārah...
human rights activist. Mohamed Sanu (born 1989), American American football player V. P. Sanu Indian politician YaqubSanu (1839-1912), Egyptian journalist...
Paris, France. Its title, Abu Naddara, was the pseudonym of the founder, YaqubSanu. The magazine was the first Arabic publication which employed cartoons...
nationalist journalist YaqubSanu in his popular underground newspaper Abu-Naddara Zarqa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sanu's cartoons depicted...
Constitution in 1923. Another famous Egyptian Jew of this period was YaqubSanu, who became a patriotic Egyptian nationalist advocating the removal of...
Egyptian poets known for their literary use of the popular zajal form are YaqubSanu, 'Abd Allah al-Nadim, Bayram al-Tunisi, and Ahmed Fouad Negm. Well-known...
economic and political life; one of the most ardent Egyptian nationalists, YaqubSanu' (Abu Naddara), was Jewish, as were the musician Dawoud Husni, popular...
the 1870s and 1880s, such as the influential Abu Naddara. Published by YaʻqūbṢanūʻ, a Jew of Italian and Egyptian origins also known as "James Sanua", this...
Arabic and adapted them as well as ten fables by Jean de La Fontaine. YaqubSanu translated to and wrote plays on himself in Egyptian Arabic. Many plays...
the key figures in opposing British rule was the Egyptian journalist YaqubSanu whose cartoons from 1870s onward satirizing first the Khedive, Ismail...
Egypt knew thousands of years before this date. The beginning was by YaqubSanu and Abu Khalil Qabbani, then the situation was divided into free theatrical...
Nationalist activists such as Mostafa Kamil Pasha, Abdullah an-Nadeem and YaqubSanu fought for greater autonomy for Egypt. The phrase "Egypt for the Egyptians"...
serially often presented satirical political commentary in the vein of YaqubSanu's Abu Naddara or Abdullah an-Nadeem's at-Tankit wat-Tabkit. The work is...
as sardonic narratives mixed with colloquialisms, as in the works of YaqubSanu (1839–1912) and Abdullah al-Nadim (died 1896), gained their socio-literary...
after exhibiting his dual portrait of Sheikh Abu-Nadra (pen name of YaqubSanu, an Egyptian Jewish playwright and journalist). After serving in the French...
written in the colloquial prose like those in Abu Naddara, a magazine by YaqubSanu. In the articles published in Al Ustadh Al Nadim frequently referred to...
Wends "These men have blue eyes, ruddy faces, and long hair". Ibrahim ibn Yaqub mentioned the Slavs were bearded. Procopius wrote that the Slavs "are all...
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