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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]
An Ordnance QF 25-pounder used as the Iftar Cannon at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. The Iftar Cannon (Madfa al-ifṭār, Arabic: مدفع الافطار, literally "cannon for breaking the fast") is a long-held tradition that began in Egypt and spread to several surrounding Muslim countries.
There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, [1] such as Turkish, French and English. [2] By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. [1] By 2011, daily newspaper circulation in Egypt increased to more than 4.3 million copies. [3]
The 2009 Ipsos Stat survey revealed that the paper is the most popular newspaper in Lebanon and one of the five most popular in the Middle East. [9] An-Nahar is the first Arab paper which regularly covers news on environmental issues. [10] Since 1997, the daily contains a daily page for the environment. [10]
The word iqāma itself is multivalent, but its most common meaning outside the inauguration of prayer is in the context of immigration law, referring to a long-term visa for a foreign national. In some cases, as in Egypt , it is a stamp on the foreigner's passport; in others (as in Morocco and Saudi Arabia ) it is a separate identity document ...
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 ...
Adhān, Arabic for 'announcement', from the root adhina, meaning 'to listen, to hear, be informed about', is variously transliterated in different cultures. [1] [2]It is commonly written as athan, or adhane (in French), [1] azan in Iran and south Asia (in Persian, Dari, Pashto, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi), adzan in Southeast Asia (Indonesian and Malaysian), and ezan in Turkish, Bosnian ...
The paper covers politics, local and international news, finance and economics, culture, entertainment as well as sports. [7] According to the Arab Press Network , an offshoot of WAN-IFRA , it is the most widely read Francophone daily newspaper in Lebanon and is "partisan to a liberal, Christian leaning line."