''Al-Arab'' or ''Alarab'' ( meaning ''The Arabs'') is a pan-Arab

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published from

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, England, and sold in a number of countries.

History and profile

The paper was launched in London on 1 June 1977, as a

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pan-Arab daily. Ahmed el-Houni, a former Libyan minister of information, was the owner and editor-in-chief of the daily. ''Al-Arab'' sometimes reflected official Libyan government views and was run, as of 2004, by the Hounis as a family business, producing 10,000 copies that were also being printed in

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and distributed throughout the Arab world, with the exception of some countries where it was banned. It has undergone a series of expansions over the years, which included the launching of sister publications such as the magazine ''Al-Jadid'' and ''The Arab Weekly''. Its 10,000th issue, consisting of 24 pages, was published on 7 August 2015 and featured Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the New Suez Canal on its front page. The ''Al-Arab'' media organization also helped fund Ahval, a news website launched by Yavuz Baydar, a Turkish journalist who left Turkey following the

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. Qantara.de suspects ''Al-Arab'' and the government of the United Arab Emirates of influencing the creation of Ahval's Arabic language service.

Notes and references

External links

Al Arab Online
- official webpage, Arabic * 1977 establishments in the United Kingdom Arabic-language newspapers Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom Newspapers established in 1977 Newspapers published in London {{UK-newspaper-stub