Al Nahla was a monthly newspaper that contained anti-Ottoman propaganda directed at Muslims and inciting them to renounce the authority of the Ottoman ruler Abdulhamid II as a religious Caliph.
[4] Following his graduation Sabunji became an ordained priest and was among the first Turkish and Latin instructors of the newly established Syrian Protestant College.
[4] Then he began to work as a priest in Beirut where he launched a weekly journal entitled Al Nahla in 1870.
[2] Sabunji permanently left Beirut and settled in London in 1876 due to his anti-Ottoman political stance.
[2] In London Sabunji worked as the political editor of a publication entitled Mirat Al Ahwal which was launched by Rizk Allah Hassun on 19 October 1876.