''Al Iqtissadiya'' (

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

: الاقتصادية; ''Economy'') is a weekly Arabic newspaper published in

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

. The paper is one of the first privately owned publications in Syria. Its sister paper is '' Al Watan'', a daily newspaper.

History and profile

''Al Iqtissadiya'' was launched in June 2001. The owner of the weekly is

Rami Makhlouf Rami Makhlouf (; born 10 July 1969) is a Syrian businessman and a maternal cousin of former president Bashar al-Assad. At the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, he was considered one of Syria's richest and most powerful men. According t ...

, the cousin of the Syrian President Bashar Assad. The paper, based in Damascus, is published on Sundays. It focuses on financial and business news, including local news, international news, economical research and studies. As of 2012 the paper both exhibited a critical attitude towards slow progress in the economic and social fields and clearly supported the Assad regime's national and foreign policies. In 2005, the editor-in-chief of the paper was Waddah Abed Rabbo. The weekly was the only Syrian publication that paid adequate tribute to

Rafik Hariri Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004. Hariri headed five cabinets during his tenu ...

, the

assassinated Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives. Assassinations are orde ...

prime minister of

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

in February 2005.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iqtissadiya 2001 establishments in Syria Arabic-language newspapers Business newspapers Mass media in Damascus Newspapers established in 2001 Weekly newspapers published in Syria