Akhbar

Akhbar in Arabic (أخبار) is the plural of khabar (خبر), meaning news. 'Akhbar in Hebrew (עכבר) means mouse (singular). 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, an Egyptian weekly newspaper, founded 1944
• Al Akhbar (Egypt), an Egyptian daily, founded 1952
• Akhbar Al-Adab, an Egyptian literary weekly newspaper
• Al Akhbar (Lebanon), a Lebanese daily newspaper, founded 2006
• Akhbar Al Khaleej, a Bahrain daily newspaper
• Akhbar Al Arab, a daily newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates
• El Akhbar, an Algerian daily newspaper [1]
• 'Akhbar ha-'Ir (lit., City Mouse ;also a pun on the Arabic term), an Israeli weekly entertainment guide

South Asia

• Al Akhbar (India), an Arabic-language monthly from Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Akhbarul Hind, an Arabic-language fortnightly newspaper published in Mumbai, India
• Akhbar e Jahan, an Urdu-language weekly family magazine from Karachi, Pakistan
• Al Akhbar (Pakistan), an Urdu-language daily from Pakistan
• Akhbar e Khawateen, a weekly news magazine published from Karachi, Pakistan
• Khalsa Akhbar Lahore, a Punjabi-language weekly Sikh newspaper, published 1886-1905
• Koshur Akhbar, a Kashmiri-language online newspaper from Indian Jammu and Kashmir

Other

• Akhbar (Shia Islam), in Shia Islam refers to the transmitting of hadith. It is the foundation of Akhbari Twelver Shia Islam
• Akhbari are Twelver Shī‘a Muslims who reject the use of reasoning in deriving verdicts
• Akhbar Helwa, an album by Diana Haddad

See also

• Akbar (disambiguation)