Al Fallah

Al Fallah
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Founder(s)	Umar Shakir
Founded	31 October 1919
Political alignment	Nationalist
Language	Arabic
Ceased publication	October 1924
Headquarters	Damascus ; Mecca
Country	Syria ; Kingdom of Hejaz

Al Fallah (The Peasant in English) was an Arabic newspaper which was first published in Damascus and then in Mecca. The paper existed between 1919 and 1924.

History and profile[]

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 was 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 all 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 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[]

^ ^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 (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. pp. 67–68. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2021.
^ Hala T. Alsudairy (2020). The Role of the Social Media in Empowering Saudi Women's Expression. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-5275-5353-8.
^ Ami Ayalon (2010). Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948. University of Texas Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-292-78281-5.

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[thoap-1] ^ ^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 (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. pp. 67–68. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2021.

[2] Hala T. Alsudairy (2020). The Role of the Social Media in Empowering Saudi Women's Expression. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-5275-5353-8.

[3] Ami Ayalon (2010). Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948. University of Texas Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-292-78281-5.

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