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| Al Arab |
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Language: Arabic
Established: 1977 Published daily A Libyan-funded and London-based newspaper, Al Arab adopts a pan-Arab nationalist stance, which is increasingly colored with Islamic rhetoric. The newspaper opens its pages to harsh criticism of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf dynasties. Mainly distributed in the north-African Arab countries. Website: http://www.alarabonline.org |
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| Al Hayat |
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Language: Arabic
Established: 1946 Published dailyThe leading liberal pan-Arab newspaper, owned by the Saudi prince Khaled Bin Sultan, Al Hayat is based in London but produces special editions in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The Saudi edition is very adapted to fit the Saudi market; lots of news on the royal family, plenty of advertisements and colored pictures. Al Hayat has a wide network of correspondents covering most of the globe, especially in crisis area in the Middle East. What make Al Hayat special is the contributions it gets from leading thinkers and writers for its culture, analysis and opinion pages; writers such as Hazem Saghiyeh, Waddah Sharara, Adel Malek and Nazek Yared. Website: http://www.daralhayat.com |
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| Al Quds al Arabi |
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Language: Arabic
Established: 1978 Published daily The leading nationalist pan-Arab newspaper, whose ownership is not quite known. Al Quds Al Arabi is based in London. It champions all the so-called Arab and Islamic causes, from Palestine to Afghanistan, including Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan, always taking on an anti-Western perspective. Its editor-in-chief, Abdel Bari Atwan, has achieved quite a notoriety after he interviewed Ousama Bin Laden in Afghanistan during the Jihad years against the Soviet Union in the 1980s and following which he became a familiar face on satellite televisions all over the world. In spite of its hard to stomach defense of anti-Western icons such as Saddam Hussain and his likes, Al Quds Al Arabi often provides news on scandals involving Arab rulers that many other newspapers controlled by Arab governments do not dare or wish to publish. Website: http://www.alquds.co.uk |
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| Al Sharq al Awsat |
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Language: Arabic The leading conservative pan-Arab newspaper, the Saudi-owned Asharq Alawsat is based in London but has special editions for Morocco, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. The newspaper especially covers crisis areas such as Palestine, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan. Besides a nearly exhaustive coverage of political news in all Arab countries, which however consist almost exclusively of news agency wires translated into Arabic, Asharq Alawsat provides in-depth analysis and well-argued opinions pieces by leading Arab, Muslim and Western writers, such as the leading liberal writer Abdel Rahman Rashed, the media expert Diana Miqdad and the Egyptian writer Anis Mansour. Asharq Alawsat was the first Arabic newspaper to introduce satellite transmission for simultaneous printing in a number of major cities worldwide, and is currently the only newspaper to own the Arabic copyright of international print syndications of the Washington Post, USA Today and Global Viewpoint. Website: http://www.asharqalawsat.com |
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