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Meraat-ul-Gharb
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Founder(s)	Najeeb Diab
Founded	1899
Language	Arabic
Ceased publication	1961-2013
Headquarters	New York City
Country	United States
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Meraat-ul-Gharb (Arabic: مرآة الغرب, romanized: mirʾāt al-ġarb, lit. 'Mirror of the West') is an Arabic-language newspaper founded and published in New York City by Najeeb Diab in 1899.^[1] By 1911, it was considered "the best Arabic newspaper" published in the United States.^[2] In 1908, Meraat-ul-Gharb was reported to be "one of the instruments which incited the Turkish military to its recent revolt" against the Ottoman Sultan's Government.^[3]

The newspaper published many of the Mahjar (emigree) writers in its columns, and was an early vehicle for the writing of Kahlil Gibran (1910), Mikhail Naimy (1915), Ameen Rihani (1916), and Ilya Abu Madi (1918). The paper's political views and editorials were, in its earliest issues, anti-Ottoman and then anti-Turk. Later it supported a federal Middle East, to include Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. It was strongly against French colonialism in the region.

Its printing house published such works as Kahlil Gibran's novel Broken Wings in 1912.

The magazine initially ceased publication in 1961, but has since been revived in New York City in 2013 with the same Arabic name as an apolitical online and physical Arabic language literature, poetry, culture, and medicine magazine.^[4]

Editors: 1899-1916: Najeeb Diab; 1916-1918: William Catzeflis; 1918-1928: Iliya Abu Madi; 1928-1936: Najeeb Diab; 1937-1946: Nasib Arida; 1946-1961: Farid Ghosn ^[5]

Post-Revival:

2013-present: Kamal Taoube, M.D.

References

^ Sawaie, Mohammed (1992). "Arabic in the Melting Pot". The Arabic Language in America. p. 96. ISBN 0814322840.
^ Houghten, Louise Seymour (1911). "Syrians in the United States". The Survey. Vol. 27. p. 792.
^ "The Man the Sultan Meant to Behead". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 12, 1908. p. 7.
^ "مرآة الغرب | Meraat Algharb". meraatalgharb.com. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
^ Library of Congress: Microfilm 1570, Orient Near East

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Collection (Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies)
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v t e Mahjar
The Pen League	Kahlil Gibran Mikhail Naimy Nasib Arida Abd al-Masih Haddad Nadra Haddad Elia Abu Madi Rashid Ayyub Wadi Bahout William Catzeflis Ameen Rihani
Usba	Shafiq al-Ma'luf
Riwaq al-Ma'arri	Sa'id Abu Hamza
Others	Afifa Karam Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
Publishers	Naoum Mokarzel Salloum Mokarzel Nageeb Arbeely Najeeb Diab
Newspapers	Al-Hoda Kawkab America Meraat-ul-Gharb
Magazines	Al-Funoon As-Sayeh The Syrian World
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