Owner(s) | Jurji Habib Hanania |
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Founder(s) | Jurji Habib Hanania |
Publisher | Jurji Habib Hanania |
Editor | Jurji Habib Hanania |
Founded | 18 September 1908 |
Language | Arabic |
Ceased publication | 1914 |
Headquarters | Jerusalem |
Country | Ottoman Empire |
Circulation | 1,500 (as of 1908)[1] |
Free online archives | Al-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]