Al Jamia Al Arabiya (Arabic: الجامعة العربية, romanized: Al-Jami'a al-'Arabiyya, lit. 'The Arab League') was a nationalist newspaper which was in circulation from 1927 to 1935 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. It was the first official newspaper of the Palestine Arab Party.
| Type |
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|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Munif Al Husseini |
| Editor-in-chief |
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| Founded | 20 January 1927 |
| Political alignment | Arab nationalism |
| Language | Arabic |
| Ceased publication | 27 December 1935 |
| Headquarters | Jerusalem |
| Country | Mandatory Palestine |
History and profile
editAl Jamia Al Arabiya was started as a weekly by Munif Al Husseini in Jerusalem in 1927.[1][2] Its first issue appeared on 20 January that year.[3] Munif was a member of the Al Husseini family and was a nephew of Amin Al Husseini.[2][4] The editor of the paper was Munif Al Husseini.[4][5] Later Taher Al Fitiani joined the paper as its editor.[6][7] It appeared five times per week from 1929[2] and became a daily publication in 1933.[6]
Al Jamia Al Arabiya adopted a nationalist political stance.[3][6] Because of this the paper was banned by the British many times.[2][8] It also had a Pan-Arab and Pan-Islamic leaning.[6] The paper began to support the Italian Fascists, and the British government in Palestine argued that it was a result of La Nation Arabe's influence.[7] It frequently attacked the Falastin and Mirat Al Sharq newspapers due to their editorial policy.[1] Al Jamia Al Arabiya published many articles criticizing the meeting of the International Missionary Council held in Jerusalem in March/April 1928.[4] One of its contributors was a Zionist spy, Abdulkadir Rashid, who gave information about the Husseinis, their newspapers and the national institutions to the Jewish Agency for Israel.[7]
Al Jamia Al Arabiya was an organ of the Supreme Moslem Council[9] and then, of the Arab Executive Committee.[6] The paper also became the official media outlet of the Palestine Arab Party in 1935 when it was established.[1] Al Jamia Al Arabiya folded on 27 December 1935 after producing 1,711 issues.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Aida Ali Najjar (1975). The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948 (PhD thesis). Syracuse University. pp. 77, 210, 220. ISBN 9781083851468. ProQuest 288060869.
- ^ a b c d Sarah Ozacky-Lazar; Mustafa Kabaha (2002). "The Haganah by Arab and Palestinian Historiography and Media". Israel Studies. 7 (3): 57–58. doi:10.1353/is.2003.0008. JSTOR 30245595.
- ^ a b c "Al-Jami'a al-'Arabiyya". National Library of Israel. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Daniel Rickenbacher (2017). Arab states, Arab interest groups and anti-Zionist movements in Western Europe and the US (PhD thesis). University of Zurich. p. 37. doi:10.5167/uzh-153223.
- ^ Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August, 1929. Vol. 1. H.M. Stationery Office. 1930. p. 91.
- ^ a b c d e Walaa AlGhussein (2020). Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s (MA thesis). City University of New York. p. 27.
- ^ a b c Steven Wagner (2023). "Espionage and the 1935 Press War in Palestine: Revisiting Factionalism, Forgeries and Fake News" (PDF). The English Historical Review. 138 (592): 27–28, 30. doi:10.1093/ehr/cead105.
- ^ Yehuda Taggar (1973). The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine: Arab politics, 1930-1937 (PhD thesis). London School of Economics. p. 335.
- ^ "Title list" (PDF). brill.com. p. 4. Retrieved 20 October 2023.