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Echo of Babylon

Title	Echo of Babylon
Publication Date:	1909
Subject	Economics, Iraq, Literature, Politics and government
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Harvard Library
Library Asset ID	LCCN: 2020741464
Record ID	TN_cdi_loca_primary_2020741464
Library Location	ONLINE ACCESS
Date	1909
Notes	Seda Babel (Echo of Babylon), first published in 1909 in Baghdad, was among Iraq's earliest newspapers. It appeared weekly on Friday. Until the end of World War I, Iraq was part of the Ottoman Empire and was subject to Ottoman law. In 1908, in line with the liberalizing revolution of the Young Turks, imperial press regulation loosened, allowing Iraq's intellectuals and writers the freedom to publish newspapers, magazines, and books. Seda Babel was one of more than a dozen newspapers to appear as a result, and part of a trend that spread throughout the empire. Although the newspaper was owned and operated by two literary personalities from the Chaldean Christian community, its content was of general interest and had no specifically Christian orientation. In this sense it was similar to Al-Zaura, a newspaper published in Baghdad between 1869 and 1917. According to the masthead, Seda Babel aimed to cover "political, literary, and commercial news in service of the nation's progress." The articles and commentary adhered to this mission. The paper was not radically political and was intended to inform rather than persuade. Editor-in-chief (mudir) Yusuf Ghanimah was an amateur historian. Da'ud Sliwa, the publisher (sahib al-imtiaz), was a teacher and poet who during World War I was exiled from Iraq for his political writing.
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Echo of Babylon

Publication Date 1909

Subject Economics, Iraq, Literature, Politics and government

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Harvard Library

Library Asset ID LCCN: 2020741464

Record ID TN_cdi_loca_primary_2020741464

Library Location ONLINE ACCESS

Date 1909

Notes Seda Babel (Echo of Babylon), first published in 1909 in Baghdad, was among Iraq's earliest newspapers. It appeared weekly on Friday. Until the end of World War I, Iraq was part of the Ottoman Empire and was subject to Ottoman law. In 1908, in line with the liberalizing revolution of the Young Turks, imperial press regulation loosened, allowing Iraq's intellectuals and writers the freedom to publish newspapers, magazines, and books. Seda Babel was one of more than a dozen newspapers to appear as a result, and part of a trend that spread throughout the empire. Although the newspaper was owned and operated by two literary personalities from the Chaldean Christian community, its content was of general interest and had no specifically Christian orientation. In this sense it was similar to Al-Zaura, a newspaper published in Baghdad between 1869 and 1917. According to the masthead, Seda Babel aimed to cover "political, literary, and commercial news in service of the nation's progress." The articles and commentary adhered to this mission. The paper was not radically political and was intended to inform rather than persuade. Editor-in-chief (mudir) Yusuf Ghanimah was an amateur historian. Da'ud Sliwa, the publisher (sahib al-imtiaz), was a teacher and poet who during World War I was exiled from Iraq for his political writing.

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Başlık Echo of Babylon