Kuba Shaaban

Kuba Shaaban
Кубэ Шабан
كوبا شعبان
Кубов Шабан
Born 15 January 1890
Khakurinohabl, Circassia, Russian Empire
Died 20 January 1974
Paterson City, US
Occupation Writer, historian, playwright
Nationality RussianCircassian ethnicity

Kuba Shaaban : ((Adyghe: Кубэ Шабан ); (Arabic: كوبا شعبان); (Russian: Кубов Шабан)) (15 January 1890 – 20 January 1974), was a Russian;(Circassian ethnic) writer, historian, and playwright. famous for his advocacy of the Circassians Culture and he produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, and historical works.

Shaaban spent his life traveling between different countries with Circassians diaspora, like Germany, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, France, and finally to the US; gathering different types of the Circassian heritage, and he succeeded to change the writing alphabet of the Circassian language from Cyrillic script an Latin among the Circassians diaspora.

Shaaban wrote many plays such as "The Circassians battles" and "The Immigration of the Circassians", and many books like "The Grammar of the Circassian Language", "Circassian Alphabet".

The ministry of culture in the Republic of Adygea held in December 2010 a memorial day dedicated to Shaaban on his 120 years anniversary.[1]

References

  1. http://www.natpress.net/index.php?newsid=457 Via Natpress (Russian Language)
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