L'Orient-Le Jour
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| description | Lebanese daily newspaper |
| language | French |
| publishing company | Société Générale de Presse et d'Édition SAL ( Lebanon ) |
| Headquarters | Beirut |
| First edition | 15th June 1971 |
| Frequency of publication | Mondays - Saturdays |
| Sold edition | 15,000 copies |
| Editors-in-chief | Emilie Sueur, Elie Fayad, Michel Touma |
| editor | Michel Eddé |
| Manager | Nayla de Freige |
| Web link | www.lorientlejour.com |
| ZDB | 352540-5 |
L'Orient-Le Jour is a Lebanese daily newspaper in French . It contains the monthly culture supplement L'Orient littéraire .
history
On June 15, 1971, the two French-language newspapers L'Orient (founded in 1924 by Gabriel Khabbaz and Georges Naccache ) and Le Jour (founded in 1934 by Michel Chiha ) merged to form L'Orient-Le Jour .
According to information from 2020, the daily newspaper has a circulation of 15,000 copies and an average of one million unique visits per month on its website. It is the only French-language daily newspaper in Lebanon and the Middle East with the exception of Egypt ( Le Progrès égyptien ).
L'Orient-Le Jour deals with Lebanese domestic politics as well as international politics, culture, economy, sport etc. It gives writers, thinkers and intellectuals the opportunity to publish their thoughts.
A literary magazine founded by Georges Schehadé in 1929 appears every first Thursday of the month under the name L'Orient-Littéraire as a literary supplement to the newspaper. The youth supplement L'Orient-Le Jour Junior for twelve to sixteen year old readers is also added every last Saturday of the month .
The publishers of the newspaper were and are:
- 1971–1985 Pierre Eddé
- 1985–1990 Ghassan Tuéni
- 1990 - Michel Eddé
The business magazine Le Commerce du Levant, founded by Toufic Mizrahi in 1929, is published monthly by the same publisher .
Web links
- L'Orient-Le Jour (French)
- L'Orient littéraire literature supplement (French)
- L'Orient-Le Jour Junior youth supplement (French)
- Le Commerce du Levant (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Nous contacter. Retrieved August 9, 2020 (French).
- ↑ a b Qui Sommes-nous. Retrieved May 4, 2020 (French, English).
- ↑ Jeanne Dussueil: Liban: L'Orient-Le Jour, un quotidien face à la catastrophe, lance un appel. In: La Tribune . August 6, 2020, accessed on August 9, 2020 (French).