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Al-Quds (Ottoman period newspaper)

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

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.

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  1. ^ a b c 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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