Umm Al-Qura (newspaper)
Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Publisher | Ministry of Media |
Founded | 12 December 1924 |
Language | Arabic |
Headquarters | Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
Website | http://www.uqn.gov.sa/ |
Umm Al-Qura (Arabic: أُم القُرى, The Mother of Villages) was the first Arabic language Saudi Arabian daily newspaper based in Mecca,[1] and the official gazette of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The paper was established by King Abdulaziz, the Kingdom’s founder, and the first issue was published on 12 December 1924.[2][3] In fact, the paper was a successor of Al Qibla which was the official gazette of the Kingdom of Hejaz.[4]
It was initially a weekly newspaper issued in four hand-printed pages before it had turned into a government gazette – an announcer of royal decrees and other state-related news.[5][6]
The founding editor-in-chief of the paper was Yusuf Yasin, an advisor to King Abdulaziz.[7] Ghalib Hamza Abulfaraj, a Saudi businessman, also served as the editor-in-chief of the paper.[8]
Significant events covered by the paper[]
- The significant events that the paper covered, sometimes in special issues, included:[2]
- Unification of Hejaz and Nejd (1926)
- Establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1932)
- Discovery of oil (1938)
- The historic meeting between King Abdulaziz and President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States (1945)
- First Arab-Israeli war (1948)
- Death of King Abdulaziz (1953)
Financial crisis[]
During World War II all newspapers at that time, , , and Umm Al Qura had financial crisis leading to the suspension of them from 1941-1946 except Um Al Qura which continued to be issued.[9]
References[]
- ^ Mark J. R. Sedgwick (November 1997). "Saudi Sufis: Compromise in the Hijaz, 1925-40" (PDF). Die Welt des Islams. 37 (3): 360. doi:10.1163/1570060972597039. JSTOR 1570657.
- ^ a b "Umm al-Qurá, Number 1131, 1 November 1946". www.wdl.org. 1 November 1946. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Leading monitor of crucial events in the Saudi Arabia for 100 years: Umm Al-Qura newspaper". Arab News. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Joshua Teitelbaum (2020). "Hashemites, Egyptians and Saudis: the tripartite struggle for the pilgrimage in the shadow of Ottoman defeat". Middle Eastern Studies. 56 (1): 43. doi:10.1080/00263206.2019.1650349. S2CID 202264793.
- ^ Joseph A. Kechichian (21 January 2011). "Nationalist adviser". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ Sebastian Maisel and John A. Shoup. (2009). Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Arab States. Greenwood Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-313-34442-8.
- ^ C. C. Lewis (July 1933). "Ibn Sa'ūd and the Future of Arabia" (PDF). International Affairs. 12 (4): 523. JSTOR 2603605.
- ^ Publitec Publications, ed. (2007). Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008 (18th ed.). K. G. Saur. p. 48. doi:10.1515/9783110930047. ISBN 9783598077357.
- ^ William A. Rugh (2004). Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-275-98212-6.
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