Lisan al-Hal

History

(also known as Khalil Zayniyya) had established his own printing house called Al-Adabiyya through which he printed his newspaper, Lisan al-Hal, and a magazine entitled Al-Mishkat. Said Aql also took part in the establishment of these papers. Khalil Khattar Sarkis was part of the Reform Society of Beirut and the society of the Lebanese Revival whereas Said Aql was a member of the latter. The former was a secret group promoting the independence of Lebanese as a state.{{cite thesis|author=Hicham Tohme|title=The Press in the Arab World. A Bourdieusian critical alternative to current perspectives on the role of the media in the public sphere |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8593/|location=University of Sheffield|page=158|degree=PhD

Lisan al-Hal was published twice per week for a long time until the 1900s. One of the early editors of the paper was Salim Sarkis.{{cite journal|author=Donald J. Cioeta|title=Ottoman Censorship in Lebanon and Syria, 1876-1908|volume=10|issue=2|jstor=162125|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|date=May 1979|pages=167–186

Jean Obeid began to write for the paper in 1960.{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Lebanon 2007-2008|year=2007|page=274|location=Beirut

The daily was disestablished in 1999. The circulation of the paper just before its closing was 33,000. The name and the licence of the paper was acquired by the Lebanese National Congress that resumed its publication as a weekly newspaper.

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