Paul Ajlouny
Paul A. Ajlouny (born 1933) is a Palestinian-American publisher and businessman known for launching the now-defunct Palestinian newspaper Al Fajr in 1972 in Jerusalem.
Biography
Ajlouny was born in Ramallah, British Mandate Palestine in 1933, but immigrated to the United States in 1946. He earned a degree in engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1963.[citation needed]
Aljouny founded Al Fajr newspaper in 1967 to respond to the educated Palestinian professional elite who saw the PLO as their representative. The media environment in Palestine at that time was dominated by broadsheets published by the Jordanian government. By 1993, the Columbia Journal Review described Al-Fajr as "gradually turning into a Palestinian version of Pravda", and the publication lost readership to the more independent-minded Al-Quds and An-Nahar. While running Al Fajr, Ajlouny was living in New York. Al Fajr was shut down on June 23, 1993, and Ajlouny claimed he was losing $25,000 per month to keep it operational.[1]
In the 1970s, while living in New York, Ajlouny claimed to be an advisor to the PLO.
References
- ^ Hadar, Leon (November–December 1993). "A free Palestinian press? The death of a daily marks a turning point". Columbia Journalism Review. 32: 4.
External links
- Profile of Paul Ajlouny at the Institute for Middle East Understanding Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine.
- Personality: Paul A. Ajloluny, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 24 February 1986
- Justia.com
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