Al Anbaa (Lebanon)

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Al Anbaa
TypeOnline newspaper
Founder(s)Kamal Jumblatt
Founded15 March 1951 (1951-03-15)
Political alignmentSocialist
LanguageArabic
Ceased publication2012 (2012) (print)
HeadquartersBeirut
CountryLebanon
WebsiteAl Anbaa

Al Anbaa is a newspaper based in Beirut, Lebanon. Founded in 1951 the print edition of the paper ceased publication in 2012. Since then it has been published as an online newspaper.

History and profile[edit]

Al Anbaa was established by Kamal Jumblatt, and the first issue appeared on 15 March 1951.[1][2] As of 2008 the publisher and director-in-charge was Aziz El Metni who survived an arson attack in Qornet Shehwan on 19 January 2008.[3][4] As of 2010 the editor-in-chief was Rami Hassib Rayess who was also a senior media officer at the Progressive Socialist Party.[1][5]

The paper is close to the Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party.[3][6][7] Jumblatt publishes editorials in the paper.[8] His father and the founder of the paper, Kamal Jumblatt, also regularly published articles in Al Anbaa.[9] Some of them contained harsh criticisms against President Bechara El Khoury in the early 1950s.[9] For instance, he argued in an article that Bechara El Khoury and his family were like an "octopus with three heads: injustice, corruption and vanity."[10] Following the publication of his articles dated 30 May 1952 in which he attacked the Lebanese regime this issue of Al Anbaa was confiscated by the government.[11]

Al Anbaa also attacked the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in the early 1950s.[12] The paper was critical of Syrian ruler, Hafez Assad, and Kataeb Party in the 1970s.[13] It was a weekly print newspaper until 2012 when it became an online-only publication.[1][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Rami Hassib Rayess (November 2018). The Lebanese National Movement (LNM) Political Reform Program: An Assessment (MA thesis). American University of Beirut. p. viii. hdl:10938/21567.
  2. ^ "Timeline. Al Anba'". Kamal Jumblatt Digital Library. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Newspaper publisher's car torched in intimidation attempt". Reporters Without Borders. 23 January 2008.
  4. ^ "Lebanon: Newspaper director's car set on fire". Committee to Protect Journalists. 15 February 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  5. ^ Sarah El-Richani (2016). The Lebanese Media: Anatomy of a System in Perpetual Crisis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-137-60183-4.
  6. ^ "The Latest: First death reported in Lebanon's protests". Associated Press. Beirut. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  7. ^ Rabah Makram Rabah (2020). Conflict on Mount Lebanon: The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-1-4744-7420-7.
  8. ^ "Jumblatt to Al Anbaa: To Start War against Corruption in all Institutions". National News Agency. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  9. ^ a b Jens Hanssen; Hicham Safieddine (Spring 2016). "Lebanon's al-Akhbar and Radical Press Culture: Toward an Intellectual History of the Contemporary Arab Left". The Arab Studies Journal. 24 (1): 201. JSTOR 44746852.
  10. ^ Eyal Zisser (1994). "The Downfall of the Khuri Administration: A Dubious Revolution". Middle Eastern Studies. 30 (3): 505. JSTOR 4283654.
  11. ^ J. L. (April 1953). "Peaceful Change in the Lebanon: The 'Rose-Water' Revolution". The World Today. 9 (4): 164. JSTOR 40392618.
  12. ^ Carl C. Yonker (2021). The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria: A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter. p. 205. ISBN 978-3-11-072914-6.
  13. ^ Lianne P. Elise Wood-Vostermans (2020). Debating 'Religious Violence' in Lebanon: A Comparative Perspective on the Mobilisation of Religious and Secular Militias during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) (PhD thesis). Durham University.

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