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The paper was launched in 1974. [2] [3] Al Watan was suspended by the Kuwaiti government on 30 August 1976. [4]In April 2014, the paper and Alam Al Youm were temporarily closed down for two weeks by the Kuwaiti government due to the publication of a videotape showing former senior officials plotting a coup in Kuwait. [5]
The number of newspapers published reached the peak in 2009, when there were 14 Arabic dailies, three English dailies and a dozens weekly newspapers in Kuwait. [2] But the numbers decreased since then either on account of the 2008 financial crisis and the increase of digital news sources or by government censorship.
Most schools in Kuwait are public schools which educate in the Arabic language. There are, however, a few schools which run under Indian Central Board of Secondary Education , British , American and French systems, or a combination of languages.
The first issue of Al-Watan Daily was published on 3 March 2008. [1] [2] The paper was established and was printed by the Dar Al-Watan publishing house, which also publishes the Arabic language daily newspaper Al Watan. In 2006 Dar Al Watan had published the English language daily "The Daily Star – Kuwait edition" in cooperation with The ...
Al-Watan, a Kuwaiti Arabic-language defunct daily published by the Al Watan publishing house; Al-Watan Daily, a daily English-language newspaper published in Kuwait; Alwatan, an Arabic daily newspaper published in Oman; Al Watan, a Hamas-owned newspaper shut down by Palestinian authorities in 1996
The state broadcaster Kuwait Television operates the domestic channels, including KTV1 (music shows, internal news, current affairs and official conferences coverage), KTV2 (family programmes in English, Kuwaiti TV series subbed in English and English Movies subbed in Arabic), Al Akhbar (the main international news coverage channel), and KTV Sport (formerly KTV3).
Al Qabas had a weekly supplement on environmental issues, which can be translated into English as Our Environment is Our Life. [8] The daily had a circulation of 120,000 copies before the invasion of Kuwait in 1991. [9] Its 2001 circulation was 79,000 copies and the paper was the third best selling newspaper in Kuwait.
Kuwait, [a] officially the State of Kuwait, [b] is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. [14]