About: Al-Quds (Ottoman period newspaper)

Al-Quds (Arabic: القدس) was an Arabic language newspaper published in Ottoman period Jerusalem between 1908 and 1914. The first issue of the paper appeared on 18 September 1908. Its publisher was Jurji Habib Hanania (1864-1920). 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. 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. With the rule of Djemal Pasha freedom of the press worsened and the newspaper was eventually discontinued.