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An-Nahar provided a platform for various freethinkers to express their views during the years of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. The paper can be best expressed as centre-left, though its writers' views range across the political spectrum. [11] Journalist Charles Glass argues that An-Nahar is Lebanon's equivalent of The New York Times. [12]
As-Safir had the second highest circulation in Lebanon in the 1990s after An-Nahar. [18] Its circulation was 45,000 copies in 2003, making it the second best selling paper in Lebanon. [10] The paper sold more than 50,000 copies in 2010. [21] In 2012, the Lebanese Ministry of Information reported that the daily had a circulation of 50,000 copies.
Eight layers showed occupation from the Hellenistic period onwards and the remains of five, possibly six, successive churches. Another site investigated was BEY 215, the An-Nahar building, revealing six levels of occupation dating from the Persian to Byzantine eras, showing continuous inhabitation since the 4th century BC.
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 ]
The execution prompted Tueni to write a front-page column in the Nahar newspaper where he hailed Saadeh as a national hero forsaking his life for the national cause and condemning the execution. The article created a widespread political storm that caused much worry among the establishment ,and was soon sent to prison.
Samir Kassir (Arabic: سمير قصير, 5 May 1960 – 2 June 2005) was a Lebanese-Palestinian journalist of An-Nahar [1] and professor of history at Saint-Joseph University, [2] who was an advocate of democracy and prominent opponent of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. [1]
Gebran Ghassan Tueni (Arabic: جبران تويني ; 15 September 1957 – 12 December 2005) was a Lebanese politician and the former editor and publisher of daily paper An Nahar, established by his grandfather, also named Gebran Tueni, in 1933. He was assassinated in 2005 [1] as part of a series of assassinations of Syria's critics in ...
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 ...