Al-Quds (Ottoman period newspaper)

Al-Quds (Arabic: القدس) was an Arabic language newspaper published in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire from 1908 until 1914.[2]

This article is about the Ottoman period newspaper. For other uses, see Al-Quds (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Al-Quds (newspaper).

Al-Quds
First issue of al-Quds newspaper on 5 September 1908
Owner(s)Jurji Habib Hanania
Founder(s)Jurji Habib Hanania
PublisherJurji Habib Hanania
EditorAli Rimawi
Founded18 September 1908
LanguageArabic
Ceased publication1914
HeadquartersJerusalem
CountryOttoman Empire
Circulation1,500 (as of 1908)[1]
Free online archivesAl-Quds archives

Al-Quds was the first privately-owned Arabic-language Palestinian newspaper to have emerged following the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, which lifted press censorship in the empire.[3] It was published by Jurji Habib Hanania (1864-1920), who wrote in an editorial in the first issue of the newspaper on 18 September 1908 that he had applied several times for the permit to publish a newspaper since 1899 without success.[4]

The newspaper started with issues twice a week in four pages and printed in 1,500 copies.[1] Among the authors of the published articles were Khalil al-Sakakini, Isaaf Nashashibi, and Shaykh Ali Rimawi.[1] With the rule of Djemal Pasha, the governor of Syria, freedom of the press worsened and the newspaper was eventually discontinued.

See also

References
  1. Hanania 2007, p. 62.
  2. Mohammed Basil Suleiman (Winter 2009). "Early Printing Presses in Palestine: A Historical Note". Jerusalem Quarterly. 36: 79.
  3. Sadia Agsous-Bienstein. "Culture and its Dependencies". p. 231-258. Al-Quds, as its name indicates in Arabic, was the first private Palestinian newspaper to be published in Arabic in Palestine in 1908.
  4. Hanania 2007, p. 61.

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