Along with Sur-e Esrafil,Majalleh-ye Estebdad and others, it was one of the publications started following the Iranian constitutional revolution.
[2] The weekly was a pioneer in using poems and satire in presenting the political and social situation of Iran at the time and was identified with its founder and editor, Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini, a well-known poet.
[3][5] Gilani designed the paper to fight against despotism and to this end, he avoided producing a mainstream publication.
[3] The paper came out weekly in Rasht until 1912 when Gilani had to move to Tehran due to the destruction of his publishing house by Russians.
[6] During his period Nasim-e-Shomal was the most-read paper in the country selling over 4,000 copies although it was consisted of only two pages.