''Al Arabi'' is a newspaper based in

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

, Egypt. It is the organ of the Nasserist Party. In the 1990s the paper was one of the opposition publications. In 1998 one of the editors of the paper was arrested and given six-month prison sentence due to the alleged defamation of a pro-government writer,

Tharwat Abaza Tharwat Abaza (28 June 1927 – 17 March 2002) was an Egyptian journalist and novelist. His best-known novel, ''A Man Escaping from Time'', was turned into an Egyptian television series in the late 1960s, and ''A Taste of Fear'', a short story ...

. In 1999 the party declared that it could not finance the paper anymore, and the

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proposed to provide financial support to the paper. However, the party did not accept the proposal, but reduced the frequency of ''Al Arabi'' from daily to weekly. Former

editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

of the paper include Abdel Halim Qandil and Nasser Abu Tahoun. Of them Qandil held the post until 2007. Another editor-in-chief was Mahmoud Al Maraghi. Mohamed Fayek, a cabinet member during the presidency of

Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 a ...

, was among the former chairmen of its board.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arabi Arabic-language newspapers Censorship in Egypt Daily newspapers published in Egypt Newspapers published in Cairo Publications with year of establishment missing Weekly newspapers published in Egypt