Tag Archives: Jaffa

Football, Franco and Atatürk

Posted on January 6, 2013 by af

Photographs were not that common in the 1930s Mandate Palestine press. Two newspapers that did feature them were the Christian-owned Filastin, in print since 1911, and the Muslim-owned al-Difa’, in print since 1935. These Jaffa-based dailies had some of the highest circulation rates of … Continue reading →

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A story of Jewish-Arab journalistic cooperation

Posted on December 26, 2012 by af

For about 15 years from the mid-1930s onwards, Jewish and Arab journalists based in Tel Aviv and Jaffa worked together – somewhat in secret – to report the news.

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