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Journalist Charles Glass argues that An-Nahar is Lebanon's equivalent of The New York Times. [12] The New York Times and Time have called it "the newspaper of record for the entire Arab world". [1] [2] Now defunct Lebanese daily As-Safir was cited as the rival of An-Nahar. [13] In the mid-1990s the latter was described as a moderate and right ...
Hadiqat al-Akhbar (The News Garden in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858. [1] From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. [2] Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400. [3] However, the number reduced to 53 due to the 1963 press law. [3] [4]
Although the text of the agreement was never published, an unofficial text appeared in the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar on 20 April 1970. [1] The agreement established principles under which the presence and activities of Palestinian guerrillas in southeastern Lebanon would be tolerated and regulated by the Lebanese authorities.
After the sudden death of his father Gebran Tueni, Ghassan, just 22 at the time, returned to Lebanon to continue publishing An Nahar. He became editor-in-chief and publisher of the paper from 1947 to 1999, and from 2003 until his death. [1] [4] He was imprisoned in the 1940s for his objections to censorship. [8]
She was a member of the Lebanese Parliament for almost ten years (2009–2018), representing the district of Achrafieh. Tueni is the CEO of one of Lebanon's most famous newspapers, An-Nahar. [1] Tueni is a fourth generation journalist. An Nahar was established by her great-grandfather, Gebran Tueni, in 1933.
In the same study it was also found that the paper was the second most popular paper in Lebanon after An Nahar. [16] The Ipsos study in 2006 revealed that Al-Balad had the largest rate of subscribers with 23.8% whereas An Nahar had only 2.6%. [16] The paper was also found to have the highest circulation in Lebanon in 2006. [16]
Because of his political views, Tueni lived in exile for a while in Paris. Returning to Beirut, he founded the Lebanese newspaper Al Ahrar and in 1933, An Nahar daily newspaper that became the largest circulation daily in Lebanon. [2] He was also among the contributors of the literary magazine Al Adib which was established in 1942. [3]
Sahar Baassiri, also spelled Baasiri (Arabic: سحر بعاصيري; born 1960s) is a Lebanese diplomat and journalist currently serving as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Lebanon to UNESCO in Paris. [1] [2] Ms. Baassiri worked for the leading Lebanese daily An-Nahar newspaper between 1981 and 2009. In 1993, she became the first female ...