After the Ottoman Empire and Italy began to fight over the province of Libya in 1911, Naum like other Christians in the region felt a backlash from the Muslim community and in 1912, he fled to United States, where he began to write for the newspaper "Intibah" ܐܢܬܒܗ ("Cirutho" ܥܝܪܘܬܐ, in English: Awakening), published by Gabriel Boyaji from 1909-1915. He went on to establish various Assyrian newspapers including "Beth-Nahrin" in 1916 and became the head of the editorialship of "Huyodo", a magazine that is still published today under the same name in by the Assyrian Federation in Sweden.