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''Al Ray Alaam'' () was a
Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
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Arabic-language Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
daily newspaper that ceased publication in 1995.


History and operations

The newspaper was launched by Abdulaziz Al Massaeed on 16 April 1961 as a weekly with the name of ''Al Rai Aam''. Al Masaeed was both the owner and the publisher of the newspaper that was initially published in
Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
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Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
. Later it was relaunched as a daily based in Kuwait. ''Alrai Alaam'' ceased publication for ten days on 26 January 1970 when it was suspended by the Kuwaiti authorities due to its harsh criticisms over the editorial of Mohamed Heikal published in the Egyptian newspaper ''
Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...
''. The license of ''Alrai Alaam' was rented to Jassim Al Boodai and in 1995, and it was re-published as '' Al Rai'' in 2006 after the new press law and under new ownership.


See also

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List of Arab newspapers A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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List of newspapers in Kuwait Newspapers in Kuwait are published in English, French and Urdu, in addition to Arabic. the publishing reach the peak at 2009 there were 14 Arabic dailies, three English dailies and a dozens weekly newspapers in Kuwait. but the numbers decreased si ...
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List of newspapers in Lebanon ''Hadiqat Al Akhbar'' (''The News Garden'' in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858. From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400 ...


References


External links

*, the newspaper's official website (in
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