Al Hawadeth

Al Hawadeth (Arabic: الحوادث, romanized: al-Ḥawādith, lit. 'The Events') was a weekly news magazine which was published in Beirut, Lebanon, in the period 1911–2014 with some interruptions. The magazine is known for its publishers and editors: Salim Lawzi who was assassinated in March 1980, and Melhem Karam, who was a veteran journalist.

Al Hawadeth
Editor-in-chief
CategoriesNewsweekly
FrequencyWeekly
Publisher
  • Latfallah Khyat
  • Dar Alf Leila Wa Leila
FounderLatfallah Khyat
Founded1911
Final issue2014
CountryLebanon
Based inBeirut
LanguageArabic
ISSN0440-4491
OCLC6284723

History and profile

Al Hawadeth was launched in Beirut in 1911.[1][2] The founder was Latfallah Khyat who was also the publisher of the magazine.[2] Salim Lawzi acquired it in 1955 and was its editor-in-chief until his assassination in 1980.[3] It was published on a weekly basis.[4] Al Hawadeth was temporarily stopped publication shortly after the start of unrest in Lebanon in 1958 when Lawzi left Lebanon for Syria.[3] Following his return to Lebanon the magazine was restarted.[3] On 30 September 1961 the offices of the magazine were attacked with the sticks of dynamite which caused slight damages.[5]

It was again temporarily suspended in 1977 when its offices was attacked and Lawzi settled in the United Kingdom.[3][6] Al Hawadeth continued its publication in London for a while.[7] There an English edition of the magazine was started with the title of Events.[3] The magazine had a pro-Saudi political stance during the ownership of Salim Lawzi.[8]

Later Al Hawadeth was relocated in Beirut and owned and edited by the leading Lebanese journalist Melhem Karam until 2010.[9] He died from a heart attack on 23 May 2010.[10] Under his ownership its publisher was Dar Alf Leila Wa Leila which also published Al Bayrak, La Revue du Liban and Monday Morning.[11] Al Hawadeth ceased publication in 2014.[12]

Contributors and content

Syrian novelist Ghada Samman joined the magazine as a correspondent in 1969.[13] One of the contributors of Al Hawadeth during its London period was Nahida Nakad who started her journalistic career in the magazine.[7] Palestinian writers Samira Azzam and Shafiq al-Hout were among its regular contributors.[14][15]

Al Hawadeth issued interviews with various leading figures. One of them was with the Saudi Arabian ruler King Faisal in August 1973 during the oil crisis.[16] In October 1974 Prince Fahd, second deputy prime minister of Saudi Arabia and later King Fahd, also gave an interview to the magazine covertly criticizing King Faisal and other radical Arab leaders using oil as a weapon against the USA.[16] Another significant interview published in Al Hawadeth was with Musa Al Sadr, a Shia figure, in November 1977.[17] Al Sadr's relation with the Imperial Iran was strained due to his speech at the funeral ceremony of Ali Shariati in Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque, Damascus, Syria, on 26 June 1977.[17] Because the leading Iranian revolutionaries who were against the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi participated in the funeral.[17]

References
  1. al-Ḥawādith. WorldCat. OCLC 6284723. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. Zeki Mohammed Al Jabir (1977). The press and conflict in the Middle East: An examination of the relationship between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the attitude of Egyptian and Lebanese news magazines, 1966-1973 (PhD thesis). Indiana University. pp. 32–33. ISBN 979-8-204-73367-1. ProQuest 302881521.
  3. F. Najia (13 January 2012). "Salim al-Lawzi: His dying thoughts". SK eyes media. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  4. "Tomorrow, We Will Enter the City-Ibrahim Salameh". The Monthly. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  5. "Chronology. September 16, 1961 - December 15, 1961". The Middle East Journal. 16 (1): 71. Winter 1962. JSTOR 4323441.
  6. Christine Rosen (1 September 1984). "Beirut & the Great Media Cover-Up". Commentary. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  7. "Nahida Nakad". Takreem. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  8. Tine Gade (2015). "Sunni Islamists in Tripoli and the Asad regime 1966-2014". Syria Studies. 7 (2): 48. hdl:10023/7174. ISSN 2056-3175.
  9. Who's Who in Lebanon 2007-2008 (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 189. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.fm. ISBN 9783598077340.
  10. "'Pillar of journalism' Melhem Karam dies at age 78". The Daily Star. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  11. "Melhem Karam passed away at 76". Ya Libnan. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  12. "The Lebanese Print Media Landscape". Media Ownership Monitor. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  13. Ghada Talhami, ed. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-8108-7086-4.
  14. Kathyanne Piselli (February 1988). "Samira Azzam: Author's Works and Vision". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 20 (1): 94. doi:10.1017/S0020743800057524. JSTOR 163587. S2CID 162612983.
  15. Rashid Khalidi (2009). "Remembering Shafiq Al-Hout (1932-2009)". Journal of Palestine Studies. 39 (1): 43. doi:10.1525/jps.2010.xxxix.1.43.
  16. Samuel E. Willner (2023). Preserving the Saudi Monarchy. Political Pragmatism in Saudi Arabia, c.1973-1979. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 55, 101. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30006-6. ISBN 978-3-031-30006-6. S2CID 259196372.
  17. Arash Reisinezhad (2019). The Shah of Iran, the Iraqi Kurds, and the Lebanese Shia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 272–274. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89947-3. ISBN 978-3-319-89947-3. S2CID 187523435.
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