| Raja El-Issa | |
| Native Name: | رجا عيسى ﺍﻟﻌﻴﺴﻰ |
| Birth Date: | 14 October 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Jaffa |
| Death Date: | 1 December 2008 |
| Death Place: | Amman, Jordan |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Spouse: | Nadia Elissa |
Raja Issa El-Issa (Arabic: رجا عيسى ﺍﻟﻌﻴﺴﻰ) (1922 – December 1, 2008) was a Palestinian journalist.
El-Issa was born in Jaffa to the prominent Palestinian Christian El-Issa family.[1] [2] [3] The family is known for its 'intellect, politics and literature'.[4] Eleven years before his birth, his father Issa El-Issa founded the pioneering Falastin newspaper.
El-Issa took the managers position of the newspaper after his father's death, and later became the first chairman of the Jordan Press Association in Amman, Jordan, 1956.[5] The slogan El-Issa advocated in the press sector for nearly a quarter of a century was the saying of Mustafa Kemal: "Freedom is not dear to a people who work to obtain it. They strive to achieve it... the rock melts and crumbles as the water falls on it drop by drop."[6]
On Falastin,
The newspaper continued to be published in East Jerusalem until 1967 when it was merged with Al-Manar to produce the Jordanian-based Ad-Dustuor newspaper based in Amman, which is still published today. El-Issa wrote an influential opening editorial for the paper in 1967 titled “Between Me and Her, Companionship and Life.” It reflects on his childhood dreams, the emotions of a bully, and youthful determination. As El-Issa said,
On the attempted assassination of his editor-in-chief by rebel elements,
El-Issa was married to Nadia, a Syro-Lebanese woman.[7] He died on 1 December 2008 at the age of 86 in Amman.[8]