''Al-Wafd'' ( meaning ''the Mission'' in English) is the daily newspaper published by the
Wafd
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party in
Giza
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, Egypt.
History and profile
''Al-Wafd'' was launched in 1984.
As the house organ of the liberal-democratic neo-Wafd party, the paper is considered an opposition paper, although both party and paper have oscillated between support and opposition for the regime.
It is one of the highest circulated papers among those dailies owned by a political party in the country. The paper sold more than half a million copies in the 1990s. The circulation of the daily in 2000 was 600,000 copies.
Mohamed Ali Ibrahim was named as the
editor-in-chief
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of the paper in 2005. Then Abbas Al Tarabili served as the editor-in-chief until February 2009.
[ During the Egyptian revolution in 2011 Osama Heikal was the editor-in-chief.][
The paper has also an online version, called ''Al Wafd Gate''.]
Controversy
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as Satan
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due to his support for opposition forces in Syria
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.
See also
* List of newspapers in Egypt
The number of Arabic newspapers in Egypt was about 200 in 1938. There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, such as Turkish language, Turkish, French language, French and English language, English. By 1951 Arabic langua ...
References
External links
Official website
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1984 establishments in Egypt
Newspapers established in 1984
Arabic-language newspapers
Daily newspapers published in Egypt
Egyptian nationalism
Mass media in Giza
National liberalism