Al Fallah
{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Syria and Hejaz (1919–1924)}}
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| format = Broadsheet
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| founder = Umar Shakir
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| foundation = 31 October 1919
| political = Nationalist
| language = Arabic
| ceased publication = October 1924
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| headquarters = {{ubl|Damascus | Mecca}}
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Al Fallah (Arabic: The Peasant) was a weekly 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.{{cite thesis|author=Thomas Aplin|pages=67–68|degree=PhD
|title=Ambivalence and the National Imaginary: Nation and Canon Formation in the Emergence of the Saudi Novel|location=University of Edinburgh|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/21006|year=2015|hdl=1842/21006}} The owner of the paper was Umar Shakir who was sentenced to death by the French authorities. He fled Damascus and settled in Mecca where he restarted Al Fallah on 8 September 1920.{{cite book|author=Hala T. Alsudairy|title=The Role of the Social Media in Empowering Saudi Women's Expression|page=114
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92bpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA114|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2020|isbn=978-1-5275-5353-8
|location=Newcastle upon Tyne}} The paper consisted of four pages published in broadsheet format twice per week, but became a weekly publication from 17 October 1920. It covered readers’ letters, entertaining articles, general and scientific articles and photographs which were not common in other Hejazi newspapers.
Al Fallah had a pan-Arabist political stance, and its subtitle was an inclusive Arabic newspaper in the service of Arabs and Arabic. The paper was also circulated in Palestine.{{cite book|author=Ami Ayalon|title=Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-292-78281-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cB7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|page=50|location=Austin, TX}} Its early emphasis was on the independence of Syria, but later it became closer to Al Qibla, a newspaper of Sharif Hussein. Therefore, Al Fallah began to support his cause. The paper folded in October 1924 shortly after the Hashemite forces lost the rule of Mecca and Hejaz.
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Category:1919 establishments in Asia
Category:1924 disestablishments in Asia
Category:Defunct Arabic-language newspapers
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Saudi Arabia
Category:Defunct weekly newspapers
Category:Mass media in Damascus
Category:Newspapers established in 1916