an-Nahar
An-Nahar ( Arabic النهار, DMG an-Nahār 'the day') is a leading Arabic- language daily newspaper in Lebanon . It was first published on August 4, 1933 as a four-sided, hand-set sheet.
The newspaper was made by five employees, including its founder Gebran Tueni, and had a circulation of just 500 copies. Gebran's son Ghassan Tueni and grandson Gebran Tueni were later publishers and editors.
An-Nahar is a newspaper of record , with a right-wing liberal orientation and a strictly anti-Syrian stance. It is banned in Syria , where the other major Lebanese daily newspapers are freely available.
Gebran, Ghassan's son and editor- in- chief of an-Nahar , who was elected in a Beirut constituency in the 2005 parliamentary elections in Lebanon , was assassinated by a car bomb on December 12, 2005 in Mkalles near Beirut . Gebran, a strong critic of Syria and its hegemony , had just returned from Paris, where he lived fearing assassination. “Deputy General Manager” of the newspaper has been Nayla Tueni , the daughter of the murdered Gebran Tueni , since 2007 .
Prominent authors for an-Nahar included the writer and critic Elias Khoury , who edits the weekly cultural supplement al-Mulhaq (which appears on Thursdays), and, prior to his assassination, the historian, journalist and political activist Samir Kassir .
With a circulation of 40,000 copies, An-Nahar is the largest Lebanese daily newspaper and is considered the “liberal flagship of the country”.
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- ↑ Markus Bickel: The revolution is not completed , in: FAZ April 27, 2011, page 33 (article about Nayla Tueni, the daughter of Gebran Tueni).