Ottoman press censorship in Bilād al-Shām, 1875–1915

This repository holds supporting data sets and plots on Ottoman press censorship between 1875 and 1915 in Bilād al-Shām and particularly the cities of Beirut and Damascus. The data is serialised as CSV. For more information see the included readme.

My article ‘Investigating Ottoman Press Censorship in the Eastern Mediterranean through Conceptual History: The Peculiar Use of “incident” (Hāditha)’. Die Welt Des Islams, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-20240040 utilises this data set and reproduces one of the plots.