[2] He had to leave his teaching and administrative post at the Orthodox School in 1907 due to a speech he gave in Haifa in which he expressed harsh criticisms against the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid.
[3] Shehadeh returned to Palestine after the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 and continued to work as a teacher and journalist.
He worked as a pharmacist's assistant to his brother, Dr. Niqula Shehadeh, who was serving as the official municipality physician in Jenin and the head of the military hospital.
[1] Shehadeh founded a newspaper entitled Mirat Al Sharq of which the first issue appeared on 17 September 1919.
[6] Shehadeh was married to Mary Sarrouf, and they had three children: two sons, Aziz (1921–1985) and Fouad (born 1925), and one daughter, Najla.