using the pen name lumo skendo, he began publishing the weekly newspaper ""lirija"" in salonika, which lasted until 1910. he participated in the congress of monastir in 1908, and in january of the next year, he began editing a monthly magazine entitled ""diturija"", a magazine based on the cultural, literary and scholarly interest of albania. in 1908, the albanian club dealing with cultural and political issues was founded in salonika and frashëri was voted by 400 albanian delegates as its president. frashëri favoured the salonika club being the headquarters of the bashkimi (union) society however other albanian clubs concerned about young turk influence in the city rejected that view and instead opted for the monastir club. ottoman authorities forbid writing in albanian that resulted in publications being published abroad and like other writers of the time frashëri used a pseudonym mali kokojka to bypass those restrictions for his works. by late 1911, frashëri had joined the freedom and accord party which was founded by him and ten others who were opponents of the young turks and advocated for ottomanism, government decentralisation and the rights of ethnic minorities.