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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 ...

() is the plural of ''khabar'' (), meaning ''news'' or, in

Classical Arabic Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic () is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, e ...

, ''reports'' about significant past events. The Arabic term occurs in the titles of many newspapers and other media, and may refer to:

Journals

Middle East and North Africa

Akhbar el-Yom ''Akhbar el-Yom'' (, ) is an Arabic language government weekly newspaper published in Egypt. History and profile ''Akhbar el-Yom'' was founded by the Amin brothers, Mustafa Amin and Ali Amin, on 6 November 1944. The paper is released weekly on ...

, an Egyptian weekly newspaper, founded 1944 *

Al Akhbar (Egypt) ''Al-Akhbar'' (; ''The News'' in English) is an Arabic daily newspaper based in Egypt. It is a state-owned semi-official newspaper. History and profile ''Al-Akhbar'' was first published in May 1952 as a part of '' Akhbar el-Yom''. The founders ...

, an Egyptian daily, founded 1952 *

Akhbar Al-Adab ''Akhbar Al Adab'' (; ''Cultural News'' in English) is an Arabic weekly literary magazine which is published by state-run Akhbar Al Yawm publishing house. History and profile ''Akhbar Al Adab'' was established by Gamal Al-Ghitani in 1993 as a pl ...

, an Egyptian literary weekly newspaper *

Al Akhbar (Lebanon) ''Al Akhbar'' (; ) is a daily Arabic language newspaper published in a semi tabloid format in Beirut. The newspaper's writers have included Ibrahim Al Amine, As'ad AbuKhalil, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Sharmine Narwani, Pierre Abi Saab, and Amer Moh ...

, a Lebanese daily newspaper, founded 2006 *

Akhbar Al Khaleej ''Akhbar Al Khaleej'' (in Arabic أخبار الخليج meaning ''The Gulf News'') is a Bahraini daily publication. It is the sister paper of the English-language daily, '' Gulf Daily News''. History and profile The first issue of ''Akhbar Al ...

, a Bahrain daily newspaper * Akhbar Al Arab, a daily newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates * 'Akhbar ha-'Ir (lit., 'City Mouse'; also a pun on the Arabic term), an Israeli weekly entertainment guide

South Asia

Akhbarul Hind Akhbarul Hind (in Arabic اخبار الهند meaning ''The News of India'') is an Arabic language fortnightly publication from Mumbai, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of c ...

, an Arabic-language fortnightly newspaper published in Mumbai, India *

Akhbar-e-Jahan Jang Media Group (), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. It has headquarters in Printing House, Karachi. It is the publisher of the Urdu language new ...

, an Urdu-language weekly family magazine from Karachi, Pakistan *

Al Akhbar (Pakistan) ''Al Akhbar'' () is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan. The newspaper is published from Islamabad, with an edition published in Muzaffarabad as well. As of 2004 Ghulam Akbar was the editor of the newspaper. See also * List of newspapers in Pakis ...

, an Urdu-language daily from Pakistan *

Khalsa Akhbar Lahore The ''Khalsa Akhbar'' ( (Gurmukhi), (Shahmukhi)), Lahore, was a weekly newspaper and the organ of the Lahore Khalsa Diwan, a Sikh society. Published from Lahore in the Punjabi language (Gurmukhi script), the newspaper was established in 188 ...

, a Punjabi-language weekly Sikh newspaper, published 1886-1905 *

Koshur Akhbar ''Koshur Akhbar'' () is an online newspaper from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that carries news and literary pieces in the Kashmiri language. There is no daily newspaper published in print media in this language, however there are weekl ...

, a Kashmiri-language online newspaper from Indian Jammu and Kashmir

Other

Akhbar (Shia Islam) In Twelver Shia Islam, ''Akhbar'' refers to the transmission of ''hadith'', which are traditions regarding the actions and teachings of Muhammad, and his twelve successors. It is the foundation of Akhbari Twelver Shia Islam, which uses it to giv ...

, in Shia Islam refers to the transmitting of hadith. It is the foundation of Akhbari Twelver Shia Islam *

Akhbari Akhbarism () is a branch of Twelver Shia Islam, whose adherents do not perform imitation ( ''taqlid'') of an islamic jurist ( ''marja''). Akhbaris rejects the use of intercessory reasoning via trained Islamic jurists to derive verdicts in ...

, Twelver Shī‘a Muslims who reject the use of reasoning in deriving verdicts *Akhbar Ali, villain in the 1983 Indian film ''

Andhaa Kanoon ''Andhaa Kaanoon'' () is a 1983 Hindi-language action film directed by T. Rama Rao, starring Rajinikanth, Hema Malini, Reena Roy in leading roles and featuring an ensemble cast in supporting roles including Prem Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Pran, M ...

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Danny Denzongpa Danny Denzongpa (born Tshering Phintso Denzongpa; 25 February 1948) is an Indian actor, playback singer, film director, and liquor baron. His film career was primarily in Hindi, but also occasionally in Bengali, Nepali, and Tamil films. In a ...