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Al-Quds
Owner(s)Jurji Habib Hanania
Founder(s)Jurji Habib Hanania
PublisherJurji Habib Hanania
EditorJurji Habib Hanania
Founded18 September 1908
LanguageArabic
Ceased publication1914
HeadquartersJerusalem
CountryOttoman Empire
Circulation1,500 (as of 1908)[1]
Free online archivesAl-Quds archives

Al-Quds (Arabic: القدس) was an Arabic language newspaper published in Ottoman period Jerusalem between 1908 and 1914.[2] The first issue of the paper appeared on 18 September 1908.[2] Its publisher was Jurji Habib Hanania (1864-1920).[2] According to the Hanania's editorial in the first issue of the newspaper on 18 September 1908 he had already applied several times for the permit to publish a newspaper starting in 1899 without success.[3] In 1908 al-Quds was the first of many new newspapers that could be established after the Young Turk Revolution newly improvement of freedom of the press. It started with issues twice a week in four pages and printed in 1,500 copies.[1] With the rule of Djemal Pasha freedom of the press worsened and the newspaper was eventually discontinued.

Among the authors of the published articles were Khalil al-Sakakini and Shaykh Ali Rimawi.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Hanania 2007, p. 62.
  2. ^ a b c Mohammed Basil Suleiman (Winter 2009). "Early Printing Presses in Palestine: A Historical Note". Jerusalem Quarterly. 36: 79.
  3. ^ Hanania 2007, p. 61.

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