''Barid Al Sharq'' (

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: ''Orient Post'') was an Arabic propaganda publication published in Berlin in the period 1939–1944. It was distributed in the Arab countries and

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to improve the relations between

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and

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History and profile

''Barid Al Sharq'' was launched in October 1939. The headquarters of the newspaper was in Berlin, and the founding publisher was the foreign language service of the

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, Nazi broadcasting corporation. From 1941 ''Barid Al Sharq'' was published directly by the Propaganda Ministry. The paper was distributed to Arabs countries and European countries where Arab exiles lived. The editor of the paper was Kamal al Din al Galal who was working at the Islamic Culture Center in Berlin.

Shakib Arslan Shakib Arslan ( ar, شكيب أرسلان, 25 December 1869 – 9 December 1946) was a Druze prince (amir) in Lebanon who was known as ' (Arabic for "Prince of Eloquence") because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential writ ...

and

Abdurreshid Ibrahim Abdurresid Ibrahim ( tt-Cyrl, Габдрәшит Ибраһимов, Siberian Tatar. ''Әптрәшит Ипрағимов'' 1857 in Tara, Tobolsk Governorate (in today's Omsk oblast) – 1944) was a Russia-born Tatar Muslim Alim (singular of ...

were among the contributors. One of its goals was to promote

Amin al-Husseini Mohammed Amin al-Husseini ( ar, محمد أمين الحسيني 1897 – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab notable ...

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, as the leader of Arabs, emphasizing the similarities between

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and Islam. It often published the speeches of

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and Amin al-Husseini and articles about the ideology of Nazism as well as about the colonial ambitions of the United States, the United Kingdom and the

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over Arab countries. In 1943 ''Barid Al Sharq'' had a circulation of nearly 5,000 copies. It folded in 1944. The issues of ''Barid Al Sharq'' are archived by the

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in Leipzig and the

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