Al-Bayan Newspapers, البيان‎ 1911-1926 and 1938

Materials in this collection are in Arabic.

Al-Bayan, البيان [The Explanation] was a weekly Arabic newspaper published by Suleiman Baddour out of Brooklyn, New York. The newspaper started in 1911 and lasted until 1967.

Al-Bayan primarily had a Druze readership and was one of the few means of communication across the Druze community. After Baddour died in 1941, the newspaper was moved to Washington, D.C. and was owned by Ameen David Fayad in 1946. Raji Daher bought the paper in 1950 and moved it back to New York in 1953, combining it with the weekly Arabic newspaper As-Sayeh (produced by Abd al-Masih Haddad) and Mira’at Al-Gharb (the second oldest Arabic newspaper in the United States founded by Najeeb Diab). Al-Bayan was moved into a two-room space at 139 Atlantic Avenue, in the heart of Brooklyn’s “Little Syria,” where it operated utilizing two Linotype machines and a small press.

Al-Bayan Newspapers collection includes issues dating from January 24, 1911 to January 22, 1916, January 25, 1917 to July 31, 1926, and January 25 to December 31, 1938.

This collection is arranged chronologically.

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[Identification of item], Al-Bayan Newspapers, البيان‎, NS 0017, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

As-Sayeh Newspapers, السائح‎ 1912-1918 and 1940-1945, NS 0012

Mira'at al-Gharb Newspapers, مرآة الغرب‎ 1910-1961, NS 0015

Materials digitized through a collaboration between the Khayrallah Center and the Center for Research Libraries, 2017 October (Accession No. 2017.023).

Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2017-2018. Finding aid created by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October. Addition to the collection processed by Sarah Bernstein, Regan Everett, and Ginni Leeman, 2023-2024. Finding aid updated by Laura Lethers, 2024 February.