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Isa al-Isa
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Person · Founder of the newspaper Filastin in Jaffa, 1911
Isa al-Isa
عيسى العيسى1878–1950
Born in Jaffa in 1878 to an Orthodox Christian family in the oil and soap trade, he studied at the American University of Beirut and founded the newspaper Filastin in Jaffa in 1911. The Ottoman authorities closed it in 1913 and exiled him to Anatolia in 1916; he reissued it in 1921 and made it a daily in 1930. He took part in founding Jaffa’s Muslim-Christian Association against the Balfour Declaration, and founded the Palestine Free Party in 1927. He died in Beirut on 29 June 1950.
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PersonIsa al-Isa was born in PlaceJaffa
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