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In the year following
the re-imposition of the Constitution, 35 new newspapers were
founded
in Greater Syria
(another name for the Levant-i.e Syria, Palestine and Lebanon).
In Palestine alone,
eight newspapers were established-the first two were Al-Quds in
Jerusalem and AlAsma’i
in Jaffa. 21 new periodicals prospered in Palestine between 1908
and 1914-plus dozens of
other shorter-lived publications.
The number of schools (&
the literacy rate) was steadily rising, partly because of the
missionary schools: by
1914 there were almost 80,000 students in French and Russian
schools in Syria and
Palestine. The local governments also opened new, modern schools.
A total of 221 state
schools had been established by the World War I in the Beirut /
Northern
Palestine area.
According to 1914 Ottoman figures, in Palestine alone there were 98
state
and 379 private Muslim
schools. |
