Flags of the Arab Press

The history of journalism in the Arab East is full of the elite selected from the figures of this press, which confirmed its existence despite its short lifespan compared to the lives of other newspapers. The oldest newspaper known to the Arab world was published in the year 1828 AD, while charitable papers and weekly newspapers were known in central and western Europe several centuries before that.He established the Arab press, and provided it with effort, knowledge, and money by hundreds of literary journalists who were pioneers of the profession and believers in its mission in life, until it reached its place of maturity and leveling in our days.The reader will find in these pages a comprehensive history of some Arab journalists, most of whom held pens in the nineteenth century. Perhaps the history of this elite of journalists is the most difficult thing for a historian to encounter due to the distance between us and them.