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The owner, editor and key writer for the newspaper was [[Najib Nassar]],<ref>Fleischmann, 2003, p. 273, note 107.</ref> a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] [[Arab Christian]] and staunch [[anti-Zionism|anti-Zionist]], whose editorials warning of the dangers posed by Zionism to the [[Palestinian people]] were often reprinted in other [[Ottoman Syria|Syrian]] newspapers.<ref name=Khalidip125>Khalidi, 1997, p. 125.</ref><ref name=Khalidip136>Khalidi, 1997, p. 136.</ref>
Beginning in the 1920s, Najib's wife, [[Sadhij Bahaa Nassar|Sadhij Nassar]] (c.1900 – c.1970) was also a key editor, administrator and journalist for the newspaper. Besides writing, she also translated articles from the foreign press, and was editor from 1941 to 1944, when the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] authorities refused to grant her a permit.
After the demise of the Ottoman empire in the wake of World War I, ''Al-Karmil'' continued to be published during [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandatory rule]] in British Palestine well into the 1940s.<ref name=Fawazp107>Fawaz et al., 2002, p. 107.</ref>
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Najib Nassar, owner, editor and journalist for the paper, not only printed news items and editorials concerning Zionism and its aims, but also re-published articles on Zionism from other Arabic newspapers based in [[Cairo]], [[Beirut]] and [[Damascus]], such as ''al-Muqattam'', ''[[al-Ahram]]'', ''al-Mufid'', ''al-Ittihad al-'Uthmani'', and ''al-Muqtabas'', as well as from [[Istanbul]]-based ''al-Hadara'' and [[Jaffa]]-based ''Filastin''.<ref name=Khalidip125/> Further, Nassar devoted detailed coverage to the activities and aims of Zionist organizations in Palestine and abroad. Between March and June 1911, ''al-Karmil'' published a sixteen-part series on "Zionism: Its history, objective, and importance" that was later released as a 65-page booklet. The material included condensed translation of the article on Zionism from the ''[[Encyclopedia Judaica]]'', and Nassar's comments.<ref name="academia.edu"/><ref>Beška, Emanuel: ARABIC TRANSLATIONS OF WRITINGS ON ZIONISM PUBLISHED IN PALESTINE BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR. In Asian and African Studies, 23, 1,2014. [https://www.academia.edu/7236697/ARABIC_TRANSLATIONS_OF_WRITINGS_ON_ZIONISM_PUBLISHED_IN_PALESTINE_BEFORE_THE_FIRST_WORLD_WAR]</ref> The booklet concluded by describing the efforts of [[Theodor Herzl]] on behalf of Zionism, calling for men like Herzl, "...who will forget their private interests in favor of the public good," to step forth from among the Palestinian population to oppose Zionism.<ref name=Khalidip125/> Nassar's purpose was to incite public opinion against Zionism, whose aims and activities he viewed as a threat to the [[Arab]] character of Palestine, but he also focused on alerting the public to instances in which the ruling Ottoman and later British authorities were colluding with Zionists to facilitate Jewish land purchases.<ref name=Seikalyp38>Seikaly, 2002, p. 38.</ref>
At the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in 1914, Najib Nassar spoke out against Turkish entry into the conflict and was put on a wanted list. Accused of spying for the British against Ottoman [[Turkey]] and its German allies, he fled from his home in [[Haifa]] to [[Nazareth]], and from there, wandered over the [[Galilee]] and the eastern bank of the [[Jordan River|River Jordan]]. He went on the run for three years, living with [[Bedouin]] goat herders in the hills of what is now the Israeli Galilee, West Bank and northern [[Jordan]], narrowly escaping capture.<ref>[[Raja Shehadeh|SHEHADEH, Raja.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=FhhHotZsuoMC&q=A+Rift+in+Time ''A rift in time: travels with my Ottoman uncle'']. Profile Books, 256 pages, {{ISBN|978-1-84668-330-5}}</ref>
===Women's rights===
[[File:Karimah abboud in elcarmel newspaper 1924 عن كريمة عبود في صحيفة الكرمل.jpg|thumb|[[Karimeh Abbud]] advertising her photography business in Al-Karmil in 1924]]
In 1926, ''al-Karmil'' began publishing a "women's page" (''Safhat al-nisa'') that was edited by Sadhij Nassar, Najib Nassar's wife, who also served as an editor and director of administration for the newspaper as a whole.<ref>Fleischmann, 2003, p. 71.</ref> Her journalistic contributions between 1926 and 1933 have been characterized as a kind of "one-woman press", wherein she commented on a wide range topics, including women's activities locally, regionally, and internationally.<ref name=Fleischmannp72/> Encouraging women to raise their male and female children equally and to take up work to facilitate their economic independence,
==Relationship with the ruling authorities==
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===British Mandate rule===
In the late 1930s, Sadhij Nassar was described by the British authorities as "a menace to public security" and a "prominent agitator".
== Ongoing Influence ==
In August 2020, [[The Palestinian Museum]] in [[Birzeit]], [[West Bank]] hosted 'theatrical narrative' based on
In 2022, ''[[Middle East Eye]]'' called the newspaper 'monumental' and argued that it 'contributed widely to the shaping of Palestinian national consciousness'.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In pictures: Palestinian women and anti-colonial resistance in the 1930s |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/palestine-women-anti-colonial-resistance-pictures |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Middle East Eye |language=en}}</ref>
==References==
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