Hadiqat al-Akhbar

Hadiqat al-Akhbar
Issue 173 of the paper dated August 1861
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Khalil al-Khuri
Founder(s)Khalil al-Khuri
Publisheral-Matba'a s-Suriyya
Editor-in-chiefKhalil al-Khuri
Founded29 June 1858
Language
  • Arabic
  • French
Ceased publication10 April 1911
HeadquartersBeirut
CountryLebanon
OCLC number213490831

Hadiqat al-Akhbar (Arabic: حديقة الأخبار, lit.'The News Garden' ALA-LC: Ḥadīqat al-Akhbār) was a weekly newspaper which was published in Beirut in the period 1858–1911 with a two-year interruption. Its subtitle was Ṣaḥīfat Sūriyya wa-Lubnān (Arabic: Newspaper of Syria and Lebanon).[1] The paper was the first private daily in Beirut,[2] the first Arabic newspaper which had a regular literary section[3] and the first weekly Arabic newspaper in the region.[4]

  1. ^ Ḥadīqat al-akhbār. WorldCat. OCLC 213490831. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ^ Marwan M. Kraidy (1999). "State Control of Television News in 1990s Lebanon". Annenberg School for Communication. 76 (3): 486. doi:10.1177/107769909907600306. S2CID 144387260.
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  4. ^ Fawwaz Traboulsi (2012). A History of Modern Lebanon (2nd ed.). London: Pluto Press. p. 61. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183p4f5. ISBN 9780745332741. JSTOR j.ctt183p4f5.