 The restoration in 1908 of the Ottoman constitution allowed for political exiles like Hima to return home.In 1909, he was in Istanbul, where he ran the weekly "Shqipëtari-Arnavud" (The Albanian) with Hilë Mosi and Eqrem Vlora, a periodical in Turkish and Albanian subsidized by Austria–Hungary.In his newspaper Hima stressed the importance of Albanian identity and language by viewing them as being two sides of the same coin.