Salīm al-Naqqāsh

Salīm al-Naqqāsh was a Lebanese journalist, historian, and playwright who worked in Egypt during the late nineteenth century. He helped establish Arabic-language theatre there, leading a troupe to Alexandria in 1876, and later founded the newspaper *al-Maḥrūsa*. His historical work *Miṣr lil-Miṣriyyīn* documented the events of the ʿUrābī revolt and the British intervention in Egypt.