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Lisan al-Hal

Lisan al-Hal or Lissan ul-Hal (Arabic: لسان الحال 'Mouthpiece') is a Lebanese Arabic language daily newspaper established by Khalil Sarkis in 1877.[1][2] It is the oldest Lebanese publication still published in Lebanon.[3]

Lisan al-Hal
TypeWeekly newspaper
Founder(s)Khalil Khattar Sarkis
PublisherLebanese National Congress
Founded1877; 147 years ago (1877)
Political alignmentLebanese nationalism
LanguageArabic
HeadquartersBeirut
CountryLebanon
WebsiteOfficial website

History

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Khalil Khattar Sarkis (also known as Khalil Zayniyya)[4] had established his own printing house called Al-Adabiyya through which he printed his newspaper, Lisan al-Hal, and a magazine entitled Al-Mishkat.[1] Said Aql also took part in the establishment of these papers.[4] Khalil Khattar Sarkis was part of the Reform Society of Beirut and the society of the Lebanese Revival whereas Said Aql was a member of the latter.[4] The former was a secret group promoting the independence of Lebanese as a state.[5] During the Ottoman era, the paper was censored several times.[6]

Lisan al-Hal was published twice per week for a long time until the 1900s.[7] One of the early editors of the paper was Salim Sarkis.[6] Yūsuf al-Asir was also one of the early editors.[8] Khalil Khattar Sarkis continued as editor until his death in 1915. Then his son Ramez Khalil Sarkis took over the task until 1941 when he was elected as a member of Parliament from Beirut and was assigned as minister of education. Khalil Ramez Sarkis was also a literary figure and had a series of literary works published. After Khalil Ramez Sarkis, editing and publishing was taken over by Gebran Hayek.[9][10]

Jean Obeid began to write for the paper in 1960.[11] Bishop George Khodr wrote for the daily in his column called Hadith al-Ahad (The Sunday Talk) from 11 March 1962 to 25 January 1970.[12] The newspaper stopped publication during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s.

The daily was disestablished in 1999.[13] The circulation of the paper just before its closing was 33,000.[14] The name and the licence of the paper was acquired by the Lebanese National Congress that resumed its publication as a weekly newspaper.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b معجم المطبوعات العربية - اليان سركيس - ج ١ - الصفحة ١٠٢٠ (in Arabic)
  2. ^ Europa World Year. London; New York: Europa Publications. 2004. p. 2614. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  3. ^ a b "Media Landscape". Menassat. Archived from the original on 20 February 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Eliezer Tauber (1990). "The Press and the Journalist as a Vehicle in Spreading National Ideas in Syria in the Late Ottoman Period". Die Welt des Islams. 30 (1/4): 165. doi:10.2307/1571051. JSTOR 1571051.
  5. ^ Hicham Tohme (October 2014). The Press in the Arab World. A Bourdieusian critical alternative to current perspectives on the role of the media in the public sphere (PhD thesis). University of Sheffield. p. 158.
  6. ^ a b Donald J. Cioeta (May 1979). "Ottoman Censorship in Lebanon and Syria, 1876-1908". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 10 (2): 167–186. doi:10.1017/s0020743800034759. JSTOR 162125. S2CID 163019820.
  7. ^ "Arabic newspapers held by the British Library" (PDF). British Library. May 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Tributes to al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-Asir" (PDF). Louaize, Lebanon: Notre Dame University. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  9. ^ نبذة تاريخية عن بلدة عبيه (in Arabic)
  10. ^ Nabil Dajani (Summer 2013). "The Myth of Media Freedom in Lebanon" (PDF). Arab Media and Society (18). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013.
  11. ^ Who's Who in Lebanon 2007-2008 (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 274. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.328. ISBN 9783110945904.
  12. ^ "Articles". George Khodr website. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  13. ^ "Lisan al-Hal". UKIRA. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  14. ^ "Lebanon Press". Press Reference. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
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