Al Arab

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Not to be confused with Alarab News Channel or Al-Arab.
Al Arab
العرب
Type Daily
Format e-newspaper
Editor-in-chief Ahmed Al Romaihi
Associate editor Mohammed Haji
Founded 6 March 1972; 52 years ago (1972-03-06)
Language Arabic
Headquarters Doha
Website Al Arab

Al Arab (in Arabic العرب meaning The Arabs) was the first Arabic daily following the independence of Qatar. It was printed between 1972 and 1995 and was relaunched on 18 November 2007 as an e-newspaper which is based in Doha, Qatar.[1][2]

History and profile

Al Arab was first published on 6 March 1972 as a weekly tabloid and became Qatar's first post-independence Arabic publication.[3][4] The paper is also the first political paper of the country.[5]

The founder and the first editor-in-chief of the daily was Qatari intellectual Abdullah Hussein Nemma,[6] known as "Dean" of the Qatari press.[3] The publisher was Dar Al Orouba.[6] Al Arab was converted into a broadsheet daily on 22 February 1974.[3] It was closed down in 1995.[7] The license of the paper was sold by Nemma's family to then Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani in the 1990s.[7]

It was relaunched on 18 November 2007 as online newspaper.[8] Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud who also contributed to the foundation of the daily was named as editor-in-chief and served in the post until November 2009.[9] Ahmed Al Romaihi is the editor-in-chief of the paper[10][11] and his deputy is Mohammed Haji.[12]

Political stance and content

Al Arab both in its first and second periods has had an independent political stance.[3][13] However, BBC describes it as a pro-government paper.[14]

In 2009, Al Arab contributor Samar Al Mogren, a Saudi Arabian novelist and feminist, received death threats due to her article in which she criticized Saudi cleric Mohammed Al Arifi for vilifying Shiites and calling Iraqi Ayatollah Sistani "an Infidel”.[15] In August 2013, Faisal Al Marzoqi published an article in the daily, accusing the officials of the Qatar Museums Authority of power misuse.[10] The criticism also indirectly targeted Shaikha Al Mayassa Al Thani, chairperson of the authority and caused reaction by the Qatari officials.[10]

Activities

The daily became one of the media sponsors for the Schools Olympic Program (SOP)in March 2013.[12]

See also

References

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