New issue of Al Qibla reprinted

AMMAN — A reprint of the 36th issue of Al Qibla newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Great Arab Revolt, is  distributed with today’s Jordan Times issue. 

The newspaper, which was being printed in Mecca a century ago, dedicated its front page to two articles, the first focusing on the Hajj season and how safe and secure pilgrims were, “unlike the situation when the Turks were in charge of securing the routes to the holy shrines in Hijaz.”

The second article is a report about the return of King Hussein Bin Ali to Mecca, the capital of his newly born Kingdom from Jeddah, where he checked on the situation there and visited facilities in the city.

On page two, the paper ran a letter to the editor signed by the principal of a school the King had visited in the Red Sea town. It also comments on stories and op-eds printed in anti-Turkey Arab newspapers in Egypt and Sudan. 

The four-page paper, which stopped printing in 1924, also runs local stories about the daily life in Hijaz and at-a-glance news about developments in World War I.

The distribution of the paper (1916-1924) by The Jordan Times and other local dailies is part of celebrations of the centennial of the Great Arab Revolt.