Daoud El-Issa

{{Short description|Palestinian journalist (1903–1983)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Daoud El-Issa

| image = File:داود بندلي العيسى.png

| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|9|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Jaffa, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|10|22|1903|9|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Amman, Jordan

| occupation = Journalist

}}

Daoud Bandaly El-Issa ({{langx|ar|داود بندلي العيسى}}) was a Palestinian journalist. For a period of time he managed the newspaper Falastin, which was established by his uncle Issa El-Issa in 1911 and based in their hometown of Jaffa.{{Citation|url=http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_i.htm|title=Palestinian Personalities|publisher=Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)|accessdate=25 Jul 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316145232/http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_i.htm|archive-date=16 March 2016|url-status=dead}} Falastin became one of the most prominent and long-running newspapers in the country at the time, dedicated to Arab nationalism and the cause of the Arab Orthodox in their struggle with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. It was passionately opposed to Zionism.[http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/165351 Issa al Issa's Unorthodox Orthodoxy: Banned in Jerusalem, Permitted in Jaffa], Salim Tamari, 2014, Jerusalem Quarterly, Institute for Palestine Studies{{cite web|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/Jaffa/|title=Jaffa - يافا -Jaffa - Palestine Remembered|publisher=palestineremembered.com|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/journal.php?joid=2079|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026015329/http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/journal.php?joid=2079 |archive-date=2012-10-26 |url-status=dead|title=Filastin (journal)|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eltaher.org/docs_photos/correspondencePS_ar.html|title=محمد علي الطاهر : فلسطين – صور ، وثائق|publisher=eltaher.org|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.eyeonmediajo.net/%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7 |title=إبراهيم سكجها « عين على الإعلام |publisher=eyeonmediajo.net |accessdate=6 Sep 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925175117/http://www.eyeonmediajo.net/%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7 |archivedate=25 September 2015 }}

El-Issa established the first Arab Orthodox Club in Jaffa with some of his friends on 4 September 1924. The administration of this club was in the Shuhaibar Building, Butmeh Road. He then worked as the general manager of Falastin. He published the newspaper Al-Bilad on 23 September 1951. He was later appointed general manager of the Jordanian Ad-Dustour newspaper, of which he was a part owner.{{cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Daoud-El-Issa/6000000008905770283|title=Daoud El Issa (1903 - d.) - Genealogy|publisher=geni.com|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}} El-Issa became a member of Jordan Press Association in 1976.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpa.jo/List.aspx?lng=2&Pa=Page&ID=3|title=نقابة الصحفيين الاردنيين - مجلس النقابة|publisher=jpa.jo|accessdate=6 Sep 2015|archive-date=3 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903004351/http://jpa.jo/List.aspx?lng=2&Pa=Page&ID=3|url-status=dead}}

File:EXILED KING ALI OF HEJAZ WITH THE EDITOR OF THE JAFFA ARAB DAILY "PALESTINE" ABOARD A SHIP AT THE JAFFA PORT. עלי מלך חג'אז בצילום משותף עם עורך העיתוD813-101.jpg with Daoud El-Issa at the Jaffa port, sometime in 1933]]