Al Hawadeth

Al Hawadeth (Arabic: الحوادث; 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] Al Hawadeth continued its publication in London for a while.[6] 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.[7]

Later Al Hawadeth was relocated in Beirut and owned and edited by the leading Lebanese journalist Melhem Karam until 2010.[8] He died from a heart attack on 23 May 2010.[9] Under his ownership its publisher was Dar Alf Leila Wa Leila which also published Al Bayrak, La Revue du Liban and Monday Morning.[10] Al Hawadeth ceased publication in 2014.[11]

Contributors

Syrian novelist Ghada Samman joined the magazine as a correspondent in 1969.[12] One of the contributors of Al Hawadeth during its London period was Nahida Nakad who started her journalistic career in the magazine.[6] Palestinian writer Samira Azzam was another regular contributor of the magazine.[13]

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. "Nahida Nakad". Takreem. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  7. Tine Gade (2015). "Sunni Islamists in Tripoli and the Asad regime 1966-2014". Syria Studies. 7 (2): 48. hdl:10023/7174. ISSN 2056-3175.
  8. Who's Who in Lebanon 2007-2008 (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 189. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.fm. ISBN 9783598077340.
  9. "'Pillar of journalism' Melhem Karam dies at age 78". The Daily Star. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  10. "Melhem Karam passed away at 76". Ya Libnan. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  11. "The Lebanese Print Media Landscape". Media Ownership Monitor. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
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