''NOW News''
(sometimes abbreviated NOW, formerly ''NOW Lebanon'') is a
Beirut
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-based Lebanese
news website
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Goin ...
focused on the
Middle East
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founded in late 2012 and published in both
English and
Arabic
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by M Publishing SAL.
The site offers reports, news, features, and analysis on
Lebanon
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, the
Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. The website offers minute-by-minute news updates as well as a special section and live
blog
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on
the civil war in
Syria
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.
History
On 14 March 2005 an estimated 1 million Lebanese took to the streets concentrated in
Martyrs' Square, Beirut
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primarily to protest
Syrian military occupation of Lebanon and Syrian intelligence and political domination of Lebanon since 1976. The mass mobilization was triggered by widespread unrest following accusations of Syrian involvement in the 14 February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafic Hariri
Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon, prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.
Hariri headed fi ...
.
The New Opinion Workshop (NOW) was created to provide news reports and opinion pieces as well as a digest of relevant news and opinion from a variety of media outlets. It aims to enable
Lebanese citizens and the
Lebanese diaspora to stay informed on a wide range of issues.
NOW News is the redesigned website that was known as "NOW Lebanon".
[ The change came in late 2012 as the site's publisher decided to widen the scope of coverage to include the wider Middle East region.
NOW News has a large online readership mainly from the ]United States
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, Canada
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, European Union
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, and Australia
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.
Due to a financial crisis, the NOW website was taken down in December 2017.
On 15 June 2021, NOW Lebanon was officially put back online, but the old archives were lost due to the destruction of the main servers after the 2020 explosion.
Contributors
Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese author and commentator.
Hussein Ibish,["Hussein Ibish on American Task Force on Palestine"](_blank)
/ref> a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine.
Michael Weiss,["Michael Weiss on Henry Jackson Society"](_blank)
/ref> former director of communications at the Henry Jackson Society.
Tony Badran,["Tony Badran on Foundation for Defense of Democracies"](_blank)
/ref> a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Michael Young,
Staff
Publisher
:M Publishing, Sal
Managing Editor
:Hanin Ghaddar (English)
:Alex Rowell (English)
:Ana Maria Luca (English)
: Okab Sakr
Production Editors
:Ranya Radwan (English)
:Saleh Hodeifi (Arabic)
News Desk Editors
:Albin Szakola (English)
:Liliana Mihaila (English)
Blog Editor
:Liliana Mihaila (English)
Reporters
:Alex Rowell
:Ana Maria Luca
:Myra Abdallah
:Amin Nasr
Fixer
:Myra Abdallah (English)
:Amin Nasr (English)
See also
* The Daily Star (Lebanon)
References
External links
English Site
Arabic Site
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2012 establishments in Lebanon
Internet properties established in 2012
Lebanese news websites
Arabic-language websites
English-language websites
Mass media in Beirut