Issa El-Issa
{{Short description|Palestinian journalist (1878–1950)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Issa El-Issa
| image = عيسى داود العيسى.png
| birth_date = 1878
| birth_place = Jaffa, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1950|06|29|1878||}}
| death_place = Beirut, Lebanon
| occupation = Journalist
}}
Issa Daoud El-Issa ({{langx|ar|عيسى داود العيسى}}, his surname also spelt al Issa and Elissa; 1878 – 29 June 1950){{efn|The name Issa means Jesus in Arabic, and Daoud means David.}} was a Palestinian poet and journalist. With his cousin Yousef El-Issa, he founded and edited the biweekly newspaper Falastin in 1911, based in his 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 in the country at the time, and was dedicated to the cause of the Arab Orthodox Movement in struggle with the Greek clergy of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/32270347|title=From Ambivalence to Hostility: The Arabic Newspaper Filastin and Zionism, 1911–1914|author=Emanuel Beška|journal=Studia Orientalia Monographica|volume=6|year=2016}} The newspaper was the country's fiercest and most consistent critic of the Zionist movement, denouncing it as a threat to Palestine's Arab population. It helped shape Palestinian identity and was shut down several times by the Ottoman and British authorities.{{cite web|url=http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/165351 |title=Issa al Issa's Unorthodox Orthodoxy: Banned in Jerusalem, Permitted in Jaffa|accessdate=2015-08-30}}
Biography
Issa El-Issa was born to the Palestinian Christian El-Issa family."a descendant of an ancient Christian Family of Palestine", El Issa's Open Letter to Herbert Samuel, 1922 Exiled during World War I, al-Issa became chief of the Arab Kingdom of Syria's royal court in Damascus during King Faisal's government that lasted five months. During that time, he required the publishers of Damascus-based newspapers to dedicate half of their newspaper columns to the Palestinian cause as prerequisite to receiving their monthly salaries.
In June 1928, Al-Issa was elected to the 7th Congress of the Arab Executive Committee (AEC) as a representative of Jaffa. During his time on the committee, he joined the National Defense Party, the opposition to Hajj Amin al-Husayni's sympathizers on the AEC. Al-Issa hosted Arab Christian-Orthodox conferences in Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan.{{fact|date=November 2023}}
His son Raja El-Issa succeeded him as the publisher of Falastin. On 29 June 1950, al-Issa died in Beirut, Lebanon.{{cite web |title=عيسى العيسى |url=https://www.paljourneys.org/ar/biography/9732/%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89 |publisher=Paljourneys.org |access-date=7 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101195111/https://www.paljourneys.org/ar/biography/9732/%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89 |archive-date=1 January 2020}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnOhCAAAQBAJ&q=raja+issa+filastin&pg=PT256|title=Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities|isbn=9781317814092|last1=Mehta|first1=Binita|last2=Mukherji|first2=Pia|year=2015|publisher=Routledge }}{{Cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HS8BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104|title=Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day|last1=Toksoz
|first1=Meltem|last2=Kolluoğlu|first2=Biray|year=2014|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=9780857711403}}{{Cite book|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/ironcagestoryofp00khal|title=The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood|last=Khalidi
|first=R.|author-link=Rashid Khalidi|year=2006|publisher=Beacon Press|isbn=9780807003152}} Issa once experienced an assassination attempt in August 1936.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-NKm7nTm_IC&pg=PA292|title=Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948|last=Cohen|first=H.|authorlink=Hillel Cohen|year=2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520252219}}
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|title=From Ambivalence to Hostility: The Arabic Newspaper Filastin and Zionism, 1911–1914 | url=https://www.academia.edu/32270347 |last=Beška|first=Emanuel|year=2016|publisher =Slovak Academic Press|isbn=978-80-89607-49-5}}
- {{cite book|title=Printing Class: 'Isa al-'Isa, Filastin, and the Textual Construction of National Identity, 1911-1931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mdNUoTiLocQC |last=Bracy|first=R. Michael|year=2010|publisher =University Press of America|isbn=978-0761853770}}
- Tamari, S., 2014, [http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/165351 Issa al Issa’s Unorthodox Orthodoxy: Banned in Jerusalem, Permitted in Jaffa], Jerusalem Quarterly, Institute for Palestine Studies
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=rmc1zdiyzEkC Les mémoires de 'Issa al-'Issa: journaliste et intellectuel palestinien (1878-1949)]
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