Shukri al-Asali (1868-1916), the editor of al-Qabas newspaper in Damascus. Asali became a deputy in the Ottoman Parliament, and supported the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) when they revolted against Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1908. He fell out with the CUP, joined al-Fatat, the leading underground movement in Ottoman Syria, and was executed in public in Damascus on May 6, 1916 by Jamal Pasha, the Military Governor of Syria.