Nasim-e-Shomal

Nasim-e-Shomal (Persian: Northern Breeze) was a Persian language weekly newspaper that existed between September 1907 and 1933 with intervals. It was one of the publications started following the Iranian constitutional revolution in addition to others, including Sur-e Esrafil and Majalleh-ye Estebdad.[1]

Nasim-e-Shomal
TypeWeekly
Owner(s)Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini
Founder(s)Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini
FoundedSeptember 1907
Political alignmentIndependent
LanguagePersian
Ceased publication1933
HeadquartersRasht
Tehran

Sorour Soroudi describes the paper as "one-man weekly newspaper".[2] The weekly is pioneer in using poems and satire in presenting the political and social situation of Iran at that period of time and was identified with its founder and editor, Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini, a well-known poet. Over time Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini was called Mr. Nasim-e-Shomal.[2]

History and profile

The founder of Nasim-e-Shomal was an Iranian poet, Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini, mostly known as Gilani.[3][4] The title was a reference to the Russian revolution of 1905.[2] The paper was launched by Gilani in Rasht in September 1907 soon after the Iranian constitutional revolution.[3] The first issue appeared on 10 September.[5] Gilani designed the paper to fight against despotism and to this end, he avoided publishing a mainstream publication.[3] Instead, he covered his poems, satire and other literary work to disseminate his views in an attractive way.[3][6] His writings were also about women and their functions.[3] The paper was published weekly in Rasht until 1912 when Gilani had to move to Tehran due to the destruction of his publishing house by Russians.[3][6] In Tehran Gilani published the paper in a publishing house owned by Jewish people and continued to criticise the existing political environment through his poems.[6] During his period Nasim-e-Shomal became the most-read paper in the country selling over 4,000 copies although it was consisted of only two pages.[3]

Nasim-e-Shomal ceased publication in 1933.[3]

Spin off

Following the death of Gilani the title was published by other journalists from 29 May 1934 to November 1940.[5] However, this spin off was not closely similar to original Nasim-e-Shomal since it became a regular newspaper without its successor's attraction and originality.[7]

References
  1. Ali Gheissari. "Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press: Introducing the Majalleh-ye Estebdat". Foundation for Iranian Studies. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  2. Sorour Soroudi (Winter–Spring 1979). "Poet and Revolution: The Impact of Iran's Constitutional Revolution on the Social and Literary Outlook of the Poets of the Time: Part I". Iranian Studies. 12 (1/2): 32. doi:10.1080/00210867908701549.
  3. Serhan Afacan (2021). "Between Law and Tradition: Women and Womanhood in Iran's Nasim-e Shomal". Mukaddime. 12 (1): 123. doi:10.19059/mukaddime.809094.
  4. Ali Asghar Kia (1996). A review of journalism in Iran: the functions of the press and traditional communication channels in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran (PhD thesis). University of Wollongong. pp. 216–220.
  5. "Nasim-e šomāl". Encyclopedia Iranica.
  6. Freydoon Azadeh Tafresh (June 2005). "Seyed Ashrafeddin Gilani (Nasim-e-Shomal). A Satirical Poet in the Guise of a Journalist" (PDF). IFLA (13): 3–5. ISSN 1350-2670.
  7. "Religious rhetoric, the satirical communication mode and the press". Ebrary.net. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
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