Nida-yi Vatan
{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Qajar Iran (1906–1908)}}
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| founder = Ahmad Majd Al Islam Kirmani
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| foundation = 27 December 1906
| political = Liberal
| language = Persian
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Nida-yi Vatan ({{langx|fa|ندای وطن||The Country's Call}}) was a weekly newspaper being one of the publications that were started following the Iranian constitutional revolution in 1906.{{cite book|author=Peter Avery|doi=10.1017/CHOL9780521200950.023
|editor1=Peter Avery |editor2=Gavin R. G. Hambly|editor3=Charles Melville|title=The Cambridge History of Iran|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9781139054997|pages=837–838|volume=7|chapter=Printing, the press and literature in modern Iran}} The paper supported a constitutional rule in Iran and appeared until 1908.
History and profile
Nida-yi Vatan was established by the journalist Ahmad Majd Al Islam Kirmani who also edited the paper.{{cite journal
|author=Negin Nabavi|title=Spreading the Word: Iran's First Constitutional Press and the Shaping of a 'New Era'|journal=Middle East Critique
|year=2005|volume=14|issue=3|pages=314,316|doi=10.1080/10669920500280656|s2cid=144228247}}{{cite journal|author=Shiva Balaghi
|title=Print Culture in Late Qajar Iran: The Cartoons of "Kashkūl"|journal=Iranian Studies|year=2001|volume=34
|issue=1–4|page=167|doi=10.1080/00210860108702003|s2cid=161066518}} Its first issue appeared on 27 December 1906. Nida-yi Vatan was headquartered in Tehran.
Kirmani described the paper as a liberal publication which attempted to make the notion of constitutionalism much more popular in the country. In each issue the statement hubb al-watan min al-iman ({{langx|fa|love of homeland is of the faith}}) was put under its title.{{cite book|author=Afsaneh Najmabadi|title=Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity|year=2005|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London
|author-link=Afsaneh Najmabadi|isbn=9780520931381|pages=101,107,113|doi=10.1525/9780520931381|url=https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520931381}} This sentence is attributed by the Sufi Muslims to Prophet Mohammad which refers to the Sufis' attempt to reach unity with the divine. In the paper, this statement was employed to encourage patriotism among its readers.
The paper frequently featured brief biographies of the deputies. It also published patriotic poems and letters from its readers.{{cite journal|author=Valentine M. Moghadam|title=Hidden from History? Women Workers in Modern Iran|journal=Iranian Studies|date=Summer–Autumn 2000|volume=33|issue=3–4|page=385|doi=10.1080/00210860008701987|jstor=4311379|s2cid=161877886}} Unlike other publications established in the same period such as Majlis the paper was strictly controlled by the state. Nida-yi Vatan folded in June 1908.
Some of its issues are archived by the University of Chicago Library.{{cite web|title=Persian Journals and Periodicals|date=28 April 2015|url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/mideast/medoc-cat/persian-pjpp.html|publisher=University of Chicago Library|access-date=22 April 2023}}
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