The Kodak (1904)
A magazine specializing in photography, the Kodak was edited by Iskandar Makarius, B.A 1904, SPC. Constitutes one of the editor’s first stabs at photo journalism. Makarius later worked at Al Mukattam newspaper in Cairo, Egypt and then went on to manage the Sudan Printing Press and publish Al Lataef al Mousawarah, Feb. 15, 1915. He founded several "firsts" in Arabic: the first magazine for Children, AI Awlad; the first women's newspaper, AI Arusa; the first monthly detective story magazine, and the first monthly digest, Ala Kayfak. Makarius took a photo of President Daniel Bliss with his grandson Dan, 1903, which later won an important prize.
The enthusiastic young student started a monthly college publication which he named Kodak, that contained photos of college events, field days, AUB social life as well as social and political events in Greater Syria, and as such, constitutes one of the early examples of reporter photojournalism.
Some of the most noteworthy events covered in the three issues of Kodak that were handed down to the Libraries were the celebration of the anniversary of the coronation of the Ottoman Sultan in Beit Eddine (summer 1903) and the fire of the Petroleum Store House in Beirut (January 1904).