1820 - History of the First Gazette published in Lebanon
This pamphlet presents the elements of the publication of the first periodical in Lebanon in 1820 under the title L’Ermite du Mont-Liban.
It aims to highlight the cultural heritage of this country which has been profoundly concerned by culture and education throughout its long history, despite the hazards and misfortunes of its political history. Thus, as the reader will notice, at the time of the publication of this periodical, the publications edited by Bonaparte’s French army in Egypt had ceased to appear for more than twenty years. No review in the history of the press in the Arab and Near Eastern world reports any publication of this kind before 1820. This shows the eminent testimony of L’Ermite du Mont-Liban during the several years of its publication. Unfortunately, at this present time, we do not dispose of a collection of this periodical. After long and patient research, I discovered the reproduction of one of its numbers in the work of English traveler Frederick Henniker. This is why, by offering this pamphlet to the reader, I wish for the discovery of a complete collection which could be available somewhere in the world for its cultural and moral contribution to the heritage of Lebanon.
Trilingual book: French, English, and Arabic
Histoire de la première Gazette publiée au Liban
History of the first Gazette published in Lebanon
صدور أوّل دوريّة في لبنان
Hyam Mallat
- Lawyer, member of the Beirut Bar Association
- President of the Board of the National Archives from 1999 to 2002
- President of the Board of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) from 1993 to 1999
- Professor of Telecommunications, Environmental and Water Laws at Saint-Joseph University since 1984
- Awards by the 'Académie Française' in 2002 and 2009
- Author of many legal and social books
- Participated in many International Seminars and Conferences among which the Earth Summit Conference of Rio de Janeiro in 1992
- Legal advisor on different projects to the FAO, UNDP, World Bank, ESCWA, ILO, WHO and European Union
- Speaker at a number of local, regional and international conferences
