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Hadiqat al-Akhbar
Issue 173 of the paper dated August 1861
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s) Khalil al-Khuri
Founder(s)Khalil al-Khuri
Publisheral-Matba'a s-Suriyya
Editor-in-chiefKhalil al-Khuri
Founded29 June 1858
Language
  • Arabic
  • French
Ceased publication10 April 1911
Headquarters Beirut
Country Lebanon
OCLC number 213490831

Hadiqat al-Akhbar ( Arabic: حديقة الأخبار, lit. 'The News Garden' ALA-LC: Ḥadīqat al-Akhbār) was a weekly newspaper which was published in Beirut in the period 1858–1911 with a two-year interruption. Its subtitle was Ṣaḥīfat Sūriyya wa-Lubnān (Arabic: Newspaper of Syria and Lebanon). [1] The paper was the first private daily in Beirut, [2] the first Arabic newspaper which had a regular literary section [3] and the first weekly Arabic newspaper in the region. [4]

History and profile

Hadiqat al-Akhbar was launched by Khalil al-Khuri, a Syrian, in Beirut. [5] [6] The first issue appeared on 29 June 1858. [7] Michel Médawar who was a Greek Catholic merchant working at the French Consulate in Beirut as an interpreter financed the paper. [5] Khalil Sarkis who would start his own title Lisan al Hal in Beirut in 1877 worked for the paper. [8] Its publisher was al-Matba' as-Suriyya which was owned by al-Khuri. [9] He also edited the paper which began to be published both in Arabic and French from 1870. [7] [10] The French edition was entitled Hadikat-el-Akhbar. Journal de Syrie et Liban. [3]

Hadiqat al-Akhbar was made a semi-official publication of the Ottoman Empire in 1860 upon the request of Fuad Pasha, Ottoman foreign minister, in the aftermath of the civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus. [11] Its semi-official status continued until the official Ottoman publication Suriya was launched. [11] Hadiqat al-Akhbar also functioned in this status between 1869 and 1870 during the governorship of Franco Pasha in Lebanon. [11] The paper was also supported by the Egyptian Khedive Ismail Pasha, possibly after the Ottoman support ended. [12]

The contributors of the paper and al-Khuri were members of the Médawar Literary Circle. [5] Selim Nauphal was the editor who translated and serialized the French novels in the paper. [5] Antonius Ameuney was the contributor of the paper based in London. [5]

During its lifetime the frequency of Hadiqat al-Akhbar was changed from daily to weekly and then to biweekly. [13] It featured local and international news, reports on mercantile activity and also literary works. [5] [14] Soon after its start the paper became one of the leading publications in Beirut. [9] Hadiqat al-Akhbar was also distributed to other cities, including Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, Alexandria, Cairo, Istanbul, Paris, London and Leipzig. [5] The number of subscribers was nearly 400 within the three months after its start. [5] It gradually increased over time. [5]

In 1907 Hadiqat al-Akhbar temporarily ceased publication. [7] Its publication was restarted in April 1909, but the paper was permanently closed down on 10 April 1911. [7]

References

  1. ^ Ḥadīqat al-akhbār. WorldCat. OCLC  213490831. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ^ Marwan M. Kraidy (1999). "State Control of Television News in 1990s Lebanon". Annenberg School for Communication. 76 (3): 486. doi: 10.1177/107769909907600306. S2CID  144387260.
  3. ^ a b Johann Strauss (2003). "Who Read What in the Ottoman Empire (19th-20th centuries)?". Middle Eastern Literatures. 6 (1): 43. doi: 10.1080/14752620306881. S2CID  162158665.
  4. ^ Fawwaz Traboulsi (2012). A History of Modern Lebanon (2nd ed.). London: Pluto Press. p. 61. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt183p4f5. ISBN  9780745332741. JSTOR  j.ctt183p4f5.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Anthony Edwards (2020). "Serializing protestantism: the missionary Miscellany and the Arabic press in 1850s Beirut". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 49: 2, 14–18. doi: 10.1080/13530194.2020.1765141. S2CID  219498842.
  6. ^ Aida Ali Najjar (1975). The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948 (PhD thesis). Syracuse University. p. 23. ISBN  9781083851468. ProQuest  288060869.
  7. ^ a b c d "Archive". Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  8. ^ Jens Hanssen; Hicham Safieddine (2019). "Butrus al-Bustani: From Protestant Convert to Ottoman Patriot and Arab Reformer". The Clarion of Syria. A Patriot's Call against the Civil War of 1860. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 24. doi: 10.1515/9780520971158-005. ISBN  9780520971158.
  9. ^ a b Ami Ayalon (2008). "Private Publishing in the Nahda". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40 (4): 561–577. doi: 10.1017/S002074380808149X. S2CID  162416226.
  10. ^ "A Chronology of Arabic Periodicals". Project Jara'id. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  11. ^ a b c Caesar A. Farah (2010). Arabs and Ottomans. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. p. 52. doi: 10.31826/9781463225445-007. ISBN  9781617190896.
  12. ^ Adam Mestyan (2014). "Arabic theater in early khedivial culture, 1868-72: James Sanua revisited". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 46 (1): 119. doi: 10.1017/S0020743813001311. hdl: 10161/12572. S2CID  162781557.
  13. ^ Fruma Zachs; Sharon Halevi (November 2009). "From Difāʿ Al-Nisāʾ to Masʾalat Al-Nisāʾ in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858-1900". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 41 (4): 617. doi: 10.1017/S0020743809990390. S2CID  232252692.
  14. ^ Lawrence Pintak (2019). "Middle Eastern and North African Journalism". In Tim P. Vos; Folker Hanusch (eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 1. doi: 10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0173. ISBN  9781118841570. S2CID  155248874.

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