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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 ...
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.
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]
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]
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 ...
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]
About half the population of the Mount Lebanon subdivision, overwhelmingly Maronites, starved to death (200,000 killed out of 400,000 of the total populace) throughout the years of 1915–1918 during what is now known as the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon, [52] as a consequence of a mixed combination of crop failure, punitive governance ...