Butrus al-Bustani
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He is considered to be the first Syrian nationalist, due to his publication of ''Nafir Suriyya'' which began following the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war. In 1870, he founded ''Al-Jinan'', the first important example of the kind of literary and scientific periodicals which began to appear in the 1870s in Arabic alongside the independent political newspapers. Provided by Wikipedia
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