''Al-Shorouk'', ''Shorouk News'' or ''Al-Shuruq'' ( "The Sunrise") is a prominent Arabic newspaper published in

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and several other Arabic nations. It is a daily independent liberal-oriented newspaper, covering mainly politics, militant affairs and sport.

History

The paper was launched by Dar El Shorouk publishing house in February 2009. The founder and owner of the paper is Ibrahim Al Moellam, who also owns '' El Tahrir'' daily. It was published as an independent newspaper by "the Egyptian Company for Arabic and International Publishing" and founded in Mohamed Kamel Morsi St., Mohandessin. The publisher is Dar Al Shorouk. Following the

2013 Egyptian coup d'état The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat or the Counter-revolutionary, Counter-revolution is an event that took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected President of Egypt ...

which deposed President Mohammed Morsi, it was closed down for two consecutive days due to the publication of an article written by journalist

Belal Fadl Belal Fadl () (born September 5, 1974) is an Egyptian screenplay writer, journalist and a column writer. He was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, but has Alexandria, Egypt, Alexandrian roots. Fadl graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Mass Co ...

who later resigned from the newspaper.

Content

Its coverage ranges from for example the

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to important political issues and activity and interviews of militant Islamists. In late August and early September 2009, it published a document entitled ''al-Badil al-Thalith bayna al-Istibdad wa-al-Istislam'' (The Third Alternative between Despotism and Surrender) written by then incarcerated Abbud al-Zumar and Tarek al-Zumar

Circulation

The printed version of the paper is not among the top ten, but the circulation of the paper became 150,000 copies during the 25 January revolution in 2011. On the other hand, its online version is ranked third among online newspapers in the

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in 2012.

Editors

Between 2008 and 2009

Hani Shukrallah Shukrallah by el-Hamalawy, June 2010 Hani Shukrallah (also spelled ''Hany''; ; 1950 – 5 May 2019) was an Egyptian journalist and political analyst. He was managing editor of ''Al-Ahram Weekly'' from 1991 and 2005 and later founder and until Fe ...

served as the paper's editor-in-chief. As of 2014, the editor-in-chief is Emad El-Din Hussein.

References

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