Alif Ba

{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Damascus (1930–1958)}} {{For|the Persian literary magazine|Alefba}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = | image = | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = | owner = | founder = {{ubl|Yousef Al Issa|Issa Al Issa}} | publisher = | editor = | chief_editor = Yousef Al Issa | founded = 13 March 1930 | political_position = | language = Arabic | ceased_publication = 1958 | relaunched = | headquarters = Damascus | publishing_city = | publishing_country = Syria | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = ''Falastin'' | ISSN = | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = }} '''''Alif Ba''''', also spelled ''AlifBa'' and ''Alef Ba'', ({{langx|ar|ألف باء||letters A B}}) was a daily newspaper published in Damascus between 1930 and 1958. The paper is known for its Palestinian founders Issa Al Issa and Yousef Al Issa who had cofounded the ''Falastin'' newspaper in Jaffa.

==History and profile== ''Alif Ba'' was started by the Palestinian journalists Issa Al Issa and Yousef Al Issa in Damascus in 1930, and its first issue appeared on 13 March that year.<ref name=samu>{{cite journal|author1=Sarah Ozacky-Lazar|author2=Mustafa Kabaha|title=The Haganah by Arab and Palestinian Historiography and Media|journal=Israel Studies|volume=7|issue=3|year=2002|doi=10.1353/is.2003.0008|page=58|jstor=30245595}}</ref><ref name=palstu>{{cite journal|title=Falastin versus the British Mandate and Zionism (1921-1931): Between a Rock and a Hard Place|journal=Jerusalem Quarterly|date=Spring 2011|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78406|author=Noha Tadros Khalaf|issue=45}}</ref> They established it when ''Falastin'' was banned in Jaffa.<ref name=palstu/> Over time ''Alif Ba'' became one of the most influential papers in Arab politics in the late 1930s.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Matthew Kraig Kelly|title=Crime in the Mandate: British and Zionist criminological discourse and Arab nationalist agitation in Palestine, 1936-39|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x61q5jz|location=University of California, Los Angeles |year=2013|page=170|degree=PhD}}</ref>

''Alif Ba'' came out daily.<ref name=Khoury>{{cite journal|author=Philip S. Khoury|title=Divided Loyalties? Syria and the question of Palestine, 1919–39|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|doi=10.1080/00263208508700632|volume=21|issue=3|year=1985|page=326 |jstor=4283074}}</ref> It had an anti–Zionist political stance and was a fierce critic of the British policy in the region.<ref name=Khoury/> Issa Al Issa managed to return to Jaffa where he continued to publish ''Falastine''.<ref name=samu/> Yousef Al Issa stayed in Damascus and edited ''Alif Ba'' until his death in 1948.<ref name=samu/> Then his two sons edited the paper until its closure in 1958.<ref name=samu/>

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