Daoud El-Issa

{{Short description|Palestinian journalist (1903–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Daoud El-Issa | image = File:داود بندلي العيسى.png | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|9|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Jaffa, Ottoman Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|10|22|1903|9|10|df=y}} | death_place = Amman, Jordan | occupation = Journalist }} '''Daoud Bandaly El-Issa''' ({{langx|ar|داود بندلي العيسى}}) was a Palestinian journalist. For a period of time he managed the newspaper Falastin, which was established by his uncle Issa El-Issa in 1911 and based in their hometown of Jaffa.<ref name="PASSIA">{{Citation|url=http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_i.htm|title=Palestinian Personalities|publisher=Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)|accessdate=25 Jul 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316145232/http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_i.htm|archive-date=16 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Falastin'' became one of the most prominent and long-running newspapers in the country at the time, dedicated to Arab nationalism and the cause of the Arab Orthodox in their struggle with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. It was passionately opposed to Zionism.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tamari |first=Salim |title=Issa al Issa's Unorthodox Orthodoxy: Banned in Jerusalem, Permitted in Jaffa |year=2014 |journal=Jerusalem Quarterly |issue=59 |pages=16-36 |publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies |doi=10.70190/jq.I59.p16 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="palestineremembered">{{cite web|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/Jaffa/|title=Jaffa - يافا -Jaffa - Palestine Remembered|publisher=palestineremembered.com|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}</ref><ref name="cosmos">{{cite web|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/journal.php?joid=2079|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026015329/http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/journal.php?joid=2079 |archive-date=2012-10-26 |url-status=dead|title=Filastin (journal)|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}</ref><ref name="eltaher">{{cite web|url=http://www.eltaher.org/docs_photos/correspondencePS_ar.html|title=محمد علي الطاهر : فلسطين – صور ، وثائق|publisher=eltaher.org|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}</ref><ref name="eyeonmediajo">{{cite web |url=http://www.eyeonmediajo.net/%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7 |title=إبراهيم سكجها « عين على الإعلام |publisher=eyeonmediajo.net |accessdate=6 Sep 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925175117/http://www.eyeonmediajo.net/%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7 |archivedate=25 September 2015 }}</ref>

El-Issa established the first Arab Orthodox Club in Jaffa with some of his friends on 4 September 1924. The administration of this club was in the Shuhaibar Building, Butmeh Road. He then worked as the general manager of ''Falastin''. He published the newspaper ''Al-Bilad'' on 23 September 1951. He was later appointed general manager of the Jordanian Ad-Dustour newspaper, of which he was a part owner.<ref name="geni">{{cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Daoud-El-Issa/6000000008905770283|title=Daoud El Issa (1903 - d.) - Genealogy|publisher=geni.com|accessdate=6 Sep 2015}}</ref> El-Issa became a member of Jordan Press Association in 1976.<ref name="jpa">{{cite web|url=http://www.jpa.jo/List.aspx?lng=2&Pa=Page&ID=3|title=نقابة الصحفيين الاردنيين - مجلس النقابة|publisher=jpa.jo|accessdate=6 Sep 2015|archive-date=3 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903004351/http://jpa.jo/List.aspx?lng=2&Pa=Page&ID=3|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:EXILED KING ALI OF HEJAZ WITH THE EDITOR OF THE JAFFA ARAB DAILY "PALESTINE" ABOARD A SHIP AT THE JAFFA PORT. עלי מלך חג'אז בצילום משותף עם עורך העיתוD813-101.jpg|thumb|left|King Ali bin Hussein with Daoud El-Issa at the Jaffa port, sometime in 1933]]

==See also== *Falastin *El-Issa family

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{{History of Palestinian journalism}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Issa}} Category:1903 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Eastern Orthodox Christians from Palestine Category:People from Jaffa Category:20th-century Palestinian journalists Category:Palestinian newspaper founders Category:Palestinian newspaper publishers (people) Category:20th-century newspaper founders Category:20th-century newspaper publishers (people)