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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.
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]
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]
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.
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 ...
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]