Inventory of the Arabic newspaper collection
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Arabic newspaper collection
Date (inclusive): 1861-2001
Collection Number: 2019C158
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Arabic
Physical Description:
39 oversize boxes
(39.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The newspapers in this collection were originally collected by the Hoover Institution Library and transferred to the Archives
in 2019. The Arabic newspaper collection (1861-2001) comprises ten different titles of publication. All of the titles within
this collection have been further analyzed in Stanford University Libraries catalog.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
Due to the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across its scope. Copyright is assumed to be held
by the original newspaper publications, which should be contacted wherein public domain has not yet passed. The Hoover Institution
can neither grant nor deny permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2019 from the Hoover Institution Library.
Preferred Citation
[Title/Date of Publication], Arabic newspaper collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Historical Note
The Hoover Institution's collecting history regarding newspapers spans over 80 years. Newspapers became an integral core component
of the "Hoover War Collection" soon after it was established in 1919 as a repository of materials on World War I and the states
and societies involved in it. The subsequent widening of focus to cover the themes of "War, Revolution, and Peace" caused
the collection to grow further in scope and volume into a variety of directions.
As a result, over the course of 80 years, thousands of newspaper titles from close to a hundred different countries were collected.
They document major political and historical events, such as military conflicts and wars, the collapse of political systems,
states, and empires, the establishment of radical and revolutionary regimes, and the corollaries of all these developments,
including economic crises, famines, and migration for political reasons.
In 2000-2001, the Hoover Library's newspaper collection activities came to an almost complete halt. Around that time, the
"realignment" of library activities and collections at Stanford saw the transfer of more than 2,000 newspaper titles from
specific (mostly non-European) countries from the Hoover Library to other libraries at Stanford. Moreover, prior to the realignment,
a significant but unknown volume of paper copies of newspapers (including many Russian/Soviet titles) were discarded after
being microfilmed.
In totality, the remaining paper copies of newspapers at Hoover - excluding microfilm holdings - comprise more than 5,000
unique titles, of which at least many hundreds can be considered rare or very rare. These remaining newspaper collections
at Hoover contain materials dating from all periods of the 20th century, with some titles reaching back into the 19th century.
While the variety and diversity of papers is considerable, most titles fall into one of three groups: 1) general daily and
weekly newspapers; 2) party and propaganda newspapers; 3) newspapers addressing national or ethnic minorities, émigré newspapers,
veterans' papers, professional and union papers.
The largest number of newspaper runs include copies from the first half of the 20th century. Newspapers from this period illuminate
in particular the two world wars and their consequences as well as political, social, and economic developments in Europe
and beyond, including the rise of Socialist, right-wing, and Fascist ideologies and movements. Among the late 20th century
holdings, a significant number of papers reflect political change in various regions, most prominently the end of Socialist
and Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but also revolutionary or radical political movements in non-European states, e.g.
in Latin America.
Very few holdings of individual newspaper titles possess complete or near-complete runs. However, in cases of chronologically
holdings or gaps, supplementation can sometimes be found in the form of microfilm copies available at the Hoover Library or
holdings at Stanford University Libraries.
Scope and Content of the Collection
The Arabic newspaper collection consists of ten (10) unique titles, some possibly émigré. Some titles are also available on
microfilm. Microfilm availablity and analyzed title information can be found in Stanford University Libraries catalog.
Arrangement Statement
The collection is organized into ten (10) series, one for each existing title.
You will also notice a string of numbers within the series information. These numbers represent the library catalog ID for
that particular newspaper title. If input into Stanford's library catalog you will be directed to the full catalog record.
We have preserved this information within our finding aid for both the benefit and ease of the researcher, as well as our
intention to utilize it via automated linking in the future.
The materials in this collection are part of an Offsite Move Project spanning 2018-2019. The items were acquired from the
Hoover Institution Library as "news collections" and were originally housed, unboxed, on shelves via their call number (normally
a country) and ordered alphabetically by title. In some cases, newspapers were not assigned a particular country, but instead
a language designation.
Upon transfer to the Archives, the collection's materials were housed in archival boxes according to size, and afforded item
level descriptive information. Intellectual arrangement was then imposed to each collection both alphabetically by title and
chronologically by date. When searching for a title alphabetically it is important to remember that all initial articles,
particularly ones used in varying languages, are excluded in alphabetical arrangement, and the title is organized based on
the first word (despite the initial article still remaining at the beginning of the title). The formatting of the dates preserves
the packet title holdings information, which was the format used by Hoover Library Staff for decades. As a result, some dates
may appear out of order by month. In the 1980s, Hoover grew less detailed in their capturing of holdings information, resulting
in generalized statements of "many issues missing" or sometimes not recording a missing issue at all.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Arabic newspapers
al-ʻAhd. ([Beirut] : Markaz al-Thaqāfah wa-al-Iʻlām, [1984-2001], 1984-2001) 3136640
box 1
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1984:Jun 28-1985:Jun 22
box 3
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1985:Jun 29-1986:Jun 21
box 10
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1986:Jun 28-1987:Jun 20
box 9
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1987:Jun 27-1988:Jun 19
box 14
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1988:Jun 25-1989:jun 17
box 5
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1988:Jun 25-1989:Mar 3
box 17
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1989:Jun 23-1990:Jun 15
box 7
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1989-1990
box 16
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1990:Jun 22-1991:Jun 21
box 19
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1990:Sep 14-1991:Mar 31
box 19
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1991:Apr 11-1991:Sep 27
box 12
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1991:Jun 28-1992:Jun 10
box 7
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1992:Dec 18-1993:Jun 11
box 6
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1992:Jun 19-Dec 11
box 2
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1993:Dec 10-1994:Apr 29
box 2
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1993:Jun 18-Dec 3
box 6
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1994:May 2-Oct 7
box 5
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1994:Oct 14-1995:Apr 21
box 11
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1995:Apr 28-Sep 29
box 11
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1995:Oct 6-1996:Apr 30
box 10
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1996:Dec 20-1997:Jul 18
box 9
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1996:May 3-Dec 6
box 8
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1997:Jul 25-1998:Jan 2
box 8
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1998:Jan 9-Jul 24
box 3
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1998:Jul 31-1999:Jan 29
box 15
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1999:Aug 13-2000:Feb 25
box 14
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
1999:Feb 5-1999:Aug 6
box 4
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
2000:Mar 3-Sep 1
box 13
al-ʻAhd (Beirut)
2000:Sep 8-2001:Apr 6
al-Hadīyah = al-Hadyat. (Bayrut : Georges Atyeh, 1922) 14248331
box 38
al-Hadīyah (Beirut)
1922:Apr 11
al-Ḥaqīqah. (Beirut, 1919) 432665
box 38
al-Ḥaqīqah (Beirut)
1919:Jul-Dec
al-Siyāsah : mulḥaq khāṣṣ bi-al-adab wa-al-ʻulūm wa-al-ijtimāʻ. (Miṣr : Ḥizb al-Aḥrār al-Dustūrīyīn, 1926-1932,
1934, 1937)
14263482
box 39
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1926:Mar 13-Oct 23
box 34
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1926:Nov 6-1927:Mar 5
box 32
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1926:Nov 6-1927:May 28
box 30
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1927:Jun 4-1927:Oct 27
box 33
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1927:Mar 12-Aug 27
box 36
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1927:Nov 5-1931:Jan 24
box 31
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1927:Sep 17-1928:Mar 10
box 39
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1928:Mar 24-Sep 8
box 34
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1928:Sep 15-Mar 9
box 33
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1929:Mar 23-Sep 7
box 35
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1929:Sep 7-1930:Apr 5
box 37
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1930:Apr 12-1931:Jan 24
box 31
al-Siyāsah (Cairo)
1937:Jan 16, 1930:Feb 1, 1934:Feb 2, 1929:Mar 30, 1930:Feb 8, 1930:Feb 15
al-Ummah al-ʻArabīyah. (Aleppo, 1949-1950) 406100
box 30
al-Ummah al-ʻArabīyah (Aleppo)
1949:Nov 29-1950:Dec 14
box 23
al-Ummah al-ʻArabīyah (Aleppo)
1950:Apr 12-Dec 7
Bayt al-Maqdis. (Jerusalem, 1919-1921) 424322
box 1
Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem)
1919:Dec 26-1921:Apr 18
Filasṭīn. (Yāfā : [ʻĪsá Dāwūd al-ʻĪsá], 1911-1967., 1921-1922, 1929-1932) 14263522
box 38
Filasṭīn (Jaffa)
1921:Mar 8-1922:Apr 1
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 31
Filasṭīn (Jaffa)
1929-1931
box 36
Filasṭīn (Jaffa)
1931:Sep-1932:May 31
Ḥadīqat al-akhbār. (Beirut, 1861) 413108
box 23
Ḥadīqat al-akhbār (Beirut)
1861:Jan 5-Oct 31
Nīnawā. (Mawsil, 1909) 432740
ام القرىUmm al-Qurá. (Makkah al-Mukarramah : [publisher not identified], 1924-, 1924-1933, 1938-1953, 1958-1963) 14263941
box 27
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1924:Dec 12-1925:Dec 18
box 27
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1925:Oct 27-1926:Nov 12
box 27
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1926:Nov 19-1927:Nov 4
box 27
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1927:Nov 11-1928:Oct 26
box 29
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1928:Nov 2-1929:Sep 27
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 29
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1929
Oct 18-1930:Oct 3
box 28
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1930:Oct 3-Sep 13
box 28
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1931:Sep 25-1932:Sep 23
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 29
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1932:Sep 16-Dec 29
box 29
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1933:Jan 6-Jun 9
box 28
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1938:Dec 30-1939:Dec 29
box 23
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1940:Jan 5-Dec 27
box 22
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1941:Jan 3-Dec 29
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 1
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1942:Jan 2-Dec 25
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 26
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1943
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 26
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1944:Jan 7-Dec 1
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 25
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1945:May 4-Dec 28
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 25
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1946:Jan 4-Dec 13
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 25
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1947:Jan 3-Dec 26
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 26
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1948:Jan 2-Dec 31
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 26
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1949:Jan 7-Dec 30
box 25
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1950:Jan 6-Dec 29
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 24
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1951:Jan 5-Dec 28
box 24
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1952:Jan 4-Dec 26
box 24
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1953:Jan 2-Dec 17
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 21
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1957:Jan 6-Dec 27
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 22
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1958:Jan 3-Nov 21
Scope and Contents
Missing:Mar 21-Apr 4, 25, May 30, Jul 11, Aug 8, Sep 5-12, 26, Oct 17-31, Nov 14
box 22
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1959:Jul 17-Nov 6
Scope and Contents
Missing:Jul 31-Aug 14, Oct 23
box 22
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1959:Nov 13-1961:Dec 19
Scope and Contents
Missing:1960:Jan 8, Feb 26-Apr 1, Jun 17-Jul 1, 29-Aug 5, Sep 23-30, Dec 31, 1961:Jan 13, Feb 10-17, May 12, Jul 9
box 22
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1962:Jan 5-Dec 28
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
box 21
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1963:Jan 4-1964:Dec 25
Scope and Contents
Missing:1963:Jul 26, Aug 16, Dec 6, 1964:May 8, 22, Jun 12, Jul 3, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, Oct 2, 16, Nov 6, 13, 27
box 21
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1965:Jan 8-1966:Aug 12
Scope and Contents
1965:Mar 12, Apr 16, Jul 23, Aug 20, Sep 3, Nov 19-1966:Jan 7, 21, Feb 11, Apr 5, 22, May 13-Jun 24, Jul 27
box 21
Umm al-Qurá (Mecca)
1968:Sep 6- 1970:Feb 6
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
