Yousef El-Issa

Yousef El-Issa
Born 1870
Jaffa, Palestine
Died 1948
Damascus, Syria
Occupation Journalist

Yousef Hanna El-Issa (alternative: Yusuf al-‘Isa) (Arabic: يوسف حنا العيسى) was a Palestinian journalist. [1] He established the Filastin newspaper with his cousin Issa El-Issa in 1911, based in his hometown of Jaffa.[2] Filastin 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 in their struggle with the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. They were passionately opposed to Zionism and Jewish immigration to Palestine.[3][4][5]

See also

Falastin newspaper

References

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