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:
40 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 40
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