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Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri

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Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri
Qays al-Yasiri, 1970s
Qays al-Yasiri, 1970s
Native name
قيس عبد الحسين الياسري
BornQays Abd al-Hussein Aziz al-Yasiri
1941 (1941)
Al-Khayrat, Al-Hindiya, Kingdom of Iraq
Died26 May 2019(2019-05-26) (aged 78)
Baghdad, Iraq
Occupation
  • media historian
  • journalist
  • academic
  • poet
LanguageArabic
Alma materBaghdad University, Cairo University, Warsaw University

Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri (Arabic: قيس عبد الحسين الياسري, romanized: Qays ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn al-Yāsirī; 1941 – 26 May 2019) was an Iraqi media historian, academic and poet, best known for his studies on early Iraqi mass media. He graduated from the universities of Baghdad in 1972, Cairo in 1976 and Warsaw in 1986. In his professional career, he moved between several jobs, as he worked as journalist, media official and assistant professor. His only poetry collection published in 1970. He left several books about media and wrote various essays. Al-Yasiri died at the age of 78 in Baghdad.[1][2][3][4] [5]

Biography

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Qais Abd al-Hussein Aziz Al-Yasiri was born in 1941 in the village of Al-Khayrat, Al-Hindiya, Karbala Governorate, where he grew up and studied. Then he went to Baghdad and obtained a Bachelor of Journalism from the College of Arts at Baghdad University in 1972, and a Master of Mass Communication from the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Journalism from Warsaw University, 1986.[2]

He returned to his homeland and worked in journalism as an editor and editor-in-chief. He worked for the Iraqi News Agency from 1960 to 1978. After that, he began his academic career as an assistant professor of journalistic editing in the Department of Media, College of Arts, University of Bagdad. He began writing poetry in 1956 and published his first poems in 1959, and continued to publish his poetry and critical and cultural essays in 1960s and 1970s.[2] He left Ba'athist Iraq to Libya in 1997. He was appointed as a teacher at Al-Fateh University and the Libyan Academy for Postgraduate Studies. He taught media economics, specialized media, and educational media. Al-Yasiri returned to Iraq in 2011,[6] worked as head of the journalism department at Ahl al-Bayt University in Karbala.[7]

Al-Yasiri died on 26 May 2019 in Baghdad.[8]

Works

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  • Arabic: الصحافة العراقية والحركة الوطنية:من نهاية الحرب العالمية الثانية حتى ثورة 14 تموز 1958, romanized: Ṣiḥāfah al-ʻIrāqīyah wa-al-ḥarakah al-waṭanīyah : min nihāyat al-Ḥarb al-ʻĀlamīyah al-Thānīyah ḥattá Thawrat 14 Tammūz 1958, lit. 'Iraqi journalism and the national movement, as from the end of the 2nd world war up the revolution of 14th. July 1958', 1978
  • Arabic: أولويات الحزن والفرح, romanized: Awlawīyāt al-ḥuzn wa-al-faraḥ, poetry collection, 1970
  • Arabic: حرية الصحافة في العراق 1921 - 1932, 1981
  • Arabic: الخبر الصحفي دراسة نظرية وتطبيقات, 1987
  • Arabic: فن المقابلة والتحقيق الصحفي, 1991
  • Arabic: الفنون الصحفية, 1993

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Yaʻqub, Imil (2004). Muʻjam al-shuʻarāʼ : mundhu badʼ ʻaṣr al-Nahḍah معجم الشعراء منذ بدء عصر النهضة [Dictionary of poets since the beginning of Nahda] (in Arabic). Vol. 2 (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Sader. p. 928.
  2. ^ a b c Al-Jaburi, Kamel Salman (2003). Mu'jam Al-Shu'ara' min Al-'Asr Al-Jahili Hatta Sanat 2002 معجم الشعراء من العصر الجاهلي حتى سنة 2002 [Dictionary of poets from the pre-Islamic era until 2002] (in Arabic). Vol. 4 (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah. p. 206.
  3. ^ Al-Jaburi, Kamel Salman (2003). Mu'jam Al-Udaba' min Al-'Asr Al-Jahili Hatta Sanat 2002 معجم الأدباء من العصر الجاهلي حتى سنة 2002 [Dictionary of poets from the pre-Islamic era until 2002] (in Arabic). Vol. 4 (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah. p. 494.
  4. ^ Matba'i, Hamid (1995). al-Mawsūʻat aʻlām al-ʻIrāq fī al-qarn al-ʻishrīn موسوعة اعلام العراق في القرن العشرين [Encyclopedia of eminents of Iraq in the twentieth century] (in Arabic). Vol. 1 (first ed.). Baghdad, Iraq: Dār al-Shuʼūn al-Thaqāfīyah al-ʻĀmmah. p. 166.
  5. ^ Lexicographers of al-Babatin dictionary (1995). Muʻjam al-Bābaṭīn lil-shuʻarāʾ al-ʻArab al-muʻāṣirīn معجم البابطين للشعراء العرب المعاصرين / (in Arabic). Vol. 4 (first ed.). Kuwait: Muʾassasat Jāʾizat ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Saʻūd al-Bābaṭīn lil-Ibdāʻ al-Shiʻrī. p. 26. Archived from the original on 6 September 2022.
  6. ^ "د. قيس الياسري: حملني الشوق إلى بغداد بعد غياب 14 عاماً لأسهم في الإعلام العراقي". almadapaper.net (in Arabic). 14 August 2011. Archived from the original on 6 September 2022.
  7. ^ "جامعة أهل البيت تعقد مؤتمراً عن اللغة العربية" (in Arabic). 28 April 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  8. ^ "مواساة المكتب السياسي الى عائلة الفقيد الدكتور قيس الياسري". iraqicp.com (in Arabic). 27 May 2019.
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