[1] Al Liwaa was founded in Jerusalem in 1935, and its first issue appeared on 2 December 1935.
[2] Othman Qassim, and Mahmud Chirqas also served as editors of the paper[4] which featured both local and international news.
[3] The paper adopted a nationalistic political stance[3] and was close to the Palestine Arab Party.
[5] Therefore, it was among the supporters of the Al Husayni family[1] and was a fierce critic of the British rulers whom it blamed for the sale of lands to the Jewish migrants.
[4] Some issues of Al Liwaa are archived by the National Library of Israel.