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As-Safir (Arabic: السفير, lit. 'The Ambassador') was a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper in Lebanon.The headquarters of the daily was in Beirut. [1] It was in circulation from March 1974 until December 2016. [2]
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]
Samaha joined Al-Hayat newspaper in 1992, rising to become deputy editor in chief. He moved to be managing editor in chief at As-Safir newspaper from 1995 until 1998, when he returned to Al-Hayat. He headed the department of politics in London before moving to Lebanon in 2000 as director of Al-Hayat's Beirut office.
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-of-center paper, while the former as a left-of-center paper. [14]
This is a list of Arabic-language and other newspapers published in the Arab world. The Arab newspaper industry started in the early 19th century with the Iraqi newspaper Journal Iraq published by Ottoman Wali, Dawud Pasha, in Baghdad in 1816. International Arab papers Al-Arab (United Kingdom) Al-Hayat (United Kingdom) Al-Quds al-Arabi (United Kingdom) Asharq Alawsat (United Kingdom) Hoona ...
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On 7 June 2012, Lebanese daily newspaper As Safir reported on the progress of Saad Haddad's daughter Arza (meaning "Cedar Tree" in Arabic) (born 1980 or 1981) as a researcher in ballistics and rocket science at the Technion University in Haifa. [12] She obtained a master's degree in aeronautics in June 2012. [13]
Said Akl wrote as a journalist in a number of publications, notably the Lebanese Al-Jarida newspaper and the weekly Al-Sayyad magazine. In the 1990s, Akl also wrote a front-page personal column in the Lebanese As-Safir newspaper.