al-Hayat
| Al-Hayat | |
|---|---|
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| description | Arab daily newspaper |
| First edition | 1988 |
| Widespread edition | 166,650 copies |
| (2006) | |
| Web link | alhayat.com |
| ISSN |
0967-5590 |
Al-Hayat ( Arabic الحياة al-Ḥayāt 'Das Leben') is a pan- Arabic and western- oriented daily newspaper in the Arab region . She appears in London.
history
The newspaper was founded in 1988 by Jemil Mrowa and Adel Bishtawi in Beirut and sold to the Saudi crown prince Sultan al-Saud during the Lebanese civil war in 1990 . Its headquarters are in Saudi Arabia . With a circulation of almost 170,000 copies, it is one of the largest Arabic-language newspapers in the world . It has an office in Riyadh and is also a local edition in Saudi Arabia.
Content
Al-Hayat is a preferred platform for left or liberal intellectuals . In August 2007, the newspaper was temporarily banned by the Saudi government for criticizing the Saud royal family and disregarding instructions from the Ministry of Information and Culture.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The press in Saudi Arabia BBC News Monitoring, December 13, 2006
- ↑ Statistics on Arab Media Arab Reform Bulletin, December 2004 (Vol. 2, Issue 11), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- ^ Al Hayat Arabic Daily Newspaper , Allied Media Corp.
- ↑ Saudi Arabia: Cultural and Educational Policy, Media Foreign Office (as of June 2014)
- ^ Bernhard Schmid: "Greater Middle East" - Democratization or Rule Project? In: TREND online newspaper. trend.infopartisan.net, June 5, 2005, accessed March 5, 2015 .