''Joghovourti Tsayn'' ( hy, Ժողովուրդի Ձայն, meaning "Voice of the People") was an

Armenian language Armenian ( classical: , reformed: , , ) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian Highlands, today Armenian is widely spoken t ...

weekly newspaper, issued as an organ of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party. The first issue appeared on February 6, 1938 in

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

. It was the first Armenian-language organ of the party. Artin (Haroutiun) Madoyan was the editor of the newspaper. As of the 1950s, Ohannes Aghbashian (leader of the Armenian section of the Lebanese Communist Party) was the editor of ''Joghovourti Tsayn''.Laqueur, Walter.
Comunismo y nacionalismo en el Cercano Oriente, con un prólogo del autor especial para ésta edición
'. éxico Costa-Amic, 1957. p. 299

References

Armenian-language newspapers published in Lebanon Communist newspapers Defunct newspapers published in Lebanon Defunct weekly newspapers Newspapers published in Beirut Newspapers established in 1938 Publications with year of disestablishment missing Weekly newspapers published in Lebanon {{asia-newspaper-stub

See also

References