Barid Al Sharq was launched in October 1939.[2] The headquarters of the newspaper was in Berlin, and the founding publisher was the foreign language service of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, Nazi broadcasting corporation.[2] From 1941 Barid Al Sharq was published directly by the Propaganda Ministry.[2] The paper was distributed to Arabs countries and European countries where Arab exiles lived.[2]
The editor of the paper was Kamal al Din al Galal who was working at the Islamic Culture Center in Berlin.[3] Shakib Arslan and Abdurreshid Ibrahim were among the contributors.[3] One of its goals was to promote Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, as the leader of Arabs, emphasizing the similarities between National Socialism and Islam.[1] It often published the speeches of Adolf Hitler and Amin al-Husseini and articles about the ideology of Nazism as well as about the colonial ambitions of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union over Arab countries.[1] In 1943 Barid Al Sharq had a circulation of nearly 5,000 copies.[2] It folded in 1944.[1]
The issues of Barid Al Sharq are archived by the German National Library in Leipzig and the Berlin State Library.[4]