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.