Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (66 page)

^27.
Ha-
erut
and
Filas
īn
had regular columns covering the capital.

^28.
For the central role of the press in “imagining community,” see Anderson,
Imagined Communities.
However, Sarah Stein cautions us against assuming that print cultures always led to ethno-national identities. Stein, “Permeable Boundaries of Ottoman Jewry,” 53.

^29.
Ha-
erut
, January 13, 1911.

^30.
Al-Quds
, vol. 1, no. 1, September 18, 1908, quoted in Yehoshu‘a,
Tarikh al-sihafa al-‘Arabiyya
, 10.

^31.
Yehoshu‘a, “Sahifata
al-Taraqqi wa-Filas
īn.”

^32.
“What Is Required of Us After the Constitution,”
Al-Itti
ād al-‘Uthmānī
, vol. 1, no. 37. A similar sentiment was expressed in the Aleppine newspaper
Lisan-i Ahali.
Watenpaugh,
Being Modern in the Middle East
, 54.

^33.
Yehoshu‘a,
Tarikh al-sihafa al-‘Arabiyya
, 18–19.

^34.
Al-Najā
, April 8, 1910.

^35.
Al-Quds al-Sharīf
, December 22, 1908.

^36.
Filas
īn
, December 14, 1911.

^37.
For example, see
Al-Munādī
to the governor, July 9, 1912; January 14, 1913; February 13, 1913; to the city council: February 12, 1912; to the prosecutors: October 15, 1912. For responses to the paper, see
Al-Munādī
, March 8, 1913; April 3, 1913.

^38.
Al-Karmil
, August 24, 1912; August 28, 1912; September 3, 1912; September 7, 1912; September 14, 1912; September 21, 1912.

^39.
Al-Karmil
, September 21, 1912.

^40.
Ha-
vi
, August 1, 1909. An earlier article on the subject was published on January 20, 1909.

^41.
Ha-
erut
, August 4, 1909; August 16, 1909.

^42.
For example,
Al-Munādī
, July 15, 1912, and April 24, 1913; and
Al-Nafir
, March 12, 1912.

^43.
Ha-
vi
, October 27, 1908.

^44.
Al-Munādī
, November 11, 1912.

^45.
See
El Liberal
, March 12, 1909;
El Paradizo
, March 16, 1909;
Ha-
erut
, May 18, 1909, January 28, 1910, February 2, 1910, April 8, 1910, and April 11, 1910.;
Al-Najā
, April 21, 1910. Notices on fundraising for the Ottoman navy were also published in
Al-Quds
, April 5, 1910.