'The News Garden' ALA-LC: Ḥadīqat al-Akhbār) was a weekly newspaper which was published in Beirut in the period 1858–1911 with a two-year interruption.
[8] Michel Médawar who was a Greek Catholic merchant working at the French Consulate in Beirut as an interpreter financed the paper.
[6] Khalil Sarkis who would start his own title Lisan al Hal in Beirut in 1877 worked for the paper.
[14] It featured local and international news, reports on mercantile activity and also literary works.
[10] Hadiqat al-Akhbar was also distributed to other cities, including Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, Alexandria, Cairo, Istanbul, Paris, London and Leipzig.