Al-Quds (Ottoman period newspaper) explained

Al-Quds
Language:Arabic
Owner:Jurji Habib Hanania
Founder:Jurji Habib Hanania
Editor:Ali Rimawi
Foundation:18 September 1908
Ceased Publication:1914
Publisher:Jurji Habib Hanania
Headquarters:Jerusalem
Publishing Country:Ottoman Empire
Circulation:1,500
Circulation Date:1908
Free:Al-Quds archives

Al-Quds (Arabic: القدس) was an Arabic language newspaper published in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire from 1908 until 1914.[1]

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.[2] 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.

The newspaper started with issues twice a week in four pages and printed in 1,500 copies. Among the authors of the published articles were Khalil al-Sakakini, Isaaf Nashashibi, and Shaykh Ali Rimawi. 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. Mohammed Basil Suleiman. Early Printing Presses in Palestine: A Historical Note. Jerusalem Quarterly. 36. 79. Winter 2009.
  2. Web site: Culture and its Dependencies. Sadia Agsous-Bienstein. 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..