Al Fallah
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founder(s) | Umar Shakir |
| Founded | 31 October 1919 |
| Political alignment | Nationalist |
| Language | Arabic |
| Ceased publication | October 1924 |
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Al Fallah (Arabic: The Peasant) was a weekly newspaper which was first published in Damascus and then in Mecca. The paper existed between 1919 and 1924.
History and profile
[edit]Al Fallah was first published in Damascus on 31 October 1919.[1] The owner of the paper was Umar Shakir who was sentenced to death by the French authorities.[1] He fled Damascus and settled in Mecca where he restarted Al Fallah on 8 September 1920.[1][2] The paper consisted of four pages published in broadsheet format twice per week, but became a weekly publication from 17 October 1920.[1] It covered readers’ letters, entertaining articles, general and scientific articles and photographs which were not common in other Hejazi newspapers.[1]
Al Fallah had a pan-Arabist political stance, and its subtitle was an inclusive Arabic newspaper in the service of Arabs and Arabic.[1] The paper was also circulated in Palestine.[3] Its early emphasis was on the independence of Syria, but later it became closer to Al Qibla, a newspaper of Sharif Hussein.[1] Therefore, Al Fallah began to support his cause.[1] The paper folded in October 1924 shortly after the Hashemite forces lost the rule of Mecca and Hejaz.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i Thomas Aplin (2015). Ambivalence and the National Imaginary: Nation and Canon Formation in the Emergence of the Saudi Novel (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. pp. 67–68. hdl:1842/21006.
- ^ Hala T. Alsudairy (2020). The Role of the Social Media in Empowering Saudi Women's Expression. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-5275-5353-8.
- ^ Ami Ayalon (2010). Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-292-78281-5.