Yousef El-Issa

{{Short description|Palestinian journalist (1870–1948)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Yousef El-Issa

| image = File:يوسف عبدالله العيسى.png

| birth_date = {{Birth year|1870}}

| birth_place = Jaffa, Jerusalem Sanjak, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1948|1870}}

| death_place = Damascus, Syria

| occupation = Journalist

}}

Yousef El-Issa (alternative: Yusuf al-‘Isa) ({{langx|ar|يوسف العيسى}}) was a Palestinian journalist.{{cite web|url=https://www.rienner.com/uploads/5253231615868.pdf|title=The Palestinian People: Seeking Sovereignty and State |author=Mustafa Kabha |website=Rienner.com|access-date=2016-12-25}} He established the Falastin newspaper with his cousin Issa El-Issa 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)|access-date=25 Jul 2007|archive-date=16 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316145232/http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_i.htm|url-status=dead}} Falastin became one of the most prominent and long running in the country at the time, was dedicated to Arab Nationalism and the cause of the Arab Orthodox Movement in its struggle with the Greek clergy of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. They were passionately opposed to Zionism and Jewish immigration to Palestine.[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|publisher=Palestine Remembered |access-date=2016-12-25}}{{cite web|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/journal.php?joid=2079 |title=Filastin (journal)|website=Cosmos.ucc.ie |date=1911-01-14|access-date=2016-12-25|archive-date=2012-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026015329/http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/journal.php?joid=2079 |url-status=dead }}{{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}} He has been described by a researcher to be "a founder of modern journalism in Palestine". He founded a newspaper entitled AlifBa in Damascus in March 1930.{{cite journal|author1=Sarah Ozacky-Lazar|author2=Mustafa Kabaha|title=The Haganah by Arab and Palestinian Historiography and Media|journal=Israel Studies|volume=7|issue=3|year=2002|doi=10.1353/is.2003.0008|page=58|jstor=30245595}}

Al Muqattam, one of the most read dailies in Egypt, commented in an editorial when El-Issa was editor-in-chief (1911-1914): “Heads of Arabs in all major cities bend to the editorials of Ustad Yousef EL-Issa.{{cite journal |last1=Beska |first1=Emanuel |title=Yusuf al-'Isa: A Founder of Modern Journalism in Palestine |journal=Jerusalem Quarterly |date=2018 |volume=74 |issue=74 |pages=7–13 |url=https://www.academia.edu/37202922}}