Description

History of Printing and Journalism in Aden, Arabia is a five-page typescript report written by A.Y. Khan in 1940. It tells the story of the slow development of printing and publishing in Aden (in present-day Yemen) from the 1850s, when prisoners from British India were ordered to establish and operate a press in the then-British colony, until 1940. By that year printing had been placed on a sound commercial basis and a weekly Arabic newspaper, Fatat al-Jazirah (Youth of the Peninsula), had been founded. Khan stresses the role played ...