Al-Machriq

{{distinguish|text = the Iraqi newspaper Al-Mashriq}}

{{Short description|Jesuit magazine in Beirut (1898–1998)}}

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| founder = Louis Cheikho

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Al-Machriq ({{langx|ar|المشرق}} {{ALA-LC|ar|Al-Mashriq}} 'The East') was a journal founded in 1898 by the Jesuit and Chaldean Catholic priest Louis Cheikho, and published by Jesuit fathers of Saint Joseph University in Beirut (modern-day Lebanon).aziz moussa The subtitle was Revue Catholique Orientale. Sciences, Lettres, Arts. Cheikho edited Al-Bashir in addition to Al-Machriq.{{cite book|author=Marwa Elshakry|title=Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950|year=2013|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago; London

|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo15357214.html|isbn=978-0-2263-7873-2|page=63}} Al-Machriq played a significant role in reviving classical Arabic.{{cite thesis|author=Aida Ali Najjar|id={{ProQuest|288060869}}|isbn=9781083851468

|title=The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948|location=Syracuse University|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/288060869|page=11|degree=PhD|year=1975|author-link=Aida Najjar}} It extensively dealt with the rapport between the Maronites and the Marada, two Christian groups living in the region.{{cite journal|author=A. Kaufman|year=2001|title=Pheonicianism: The Formation of an Identity in Lebanon of 1920|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=37|issue=1|page=177

|doi=10.1080/714004369|s2cid=145206887 }} In the initial phase the magazine also featured literary work.{{cite book|author=Ghenwa Hayek|editor=Jeremy Tambling|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City|year=2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|isbn=978-1-137-54911-2 |page=587|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_37|chapter=Beirut|doi=10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_37 }} It had run through 72 volumes by 1998.