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Research page for "Al-Watan"; alwatan (Oman), al watan, al-watan, and Al Watan should all redirect there.

Al-watan newspapers

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  • Al-watan is commonly used as the name of Arabic newspapers.
  • "Watan" means country or nation [1]

Al Watan is a weekly Arab American newspaper dedicated to providing its constituency with up-to-date news breaking information. Al Watan was established in 1992 in Washington DC and has since expanded with three additional locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, California and New York

Bahrain

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Alwatan (Oman)

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Refers to: alwatan.com

Alwatan is the widely disseminated Arabic newspaper in Oman. Although it is a privately owned newspaper, it took the lead even over a state-owned newspaper (Oman newspaper). Many government institutions as well private ones subscribe to it on annual basis and its local and international news are highly credited by Omanis and expatriates in the country.

The newspaper launched its website (www.alwatan.com) quite early compared to the newspapers in the region and gained a lot of viewers in the Sultanate and more importantly outside it. It provide of course daily news and articles most of which are selected from the original printed version. In addition, the online newspaper links to a PDF-formatted archive that can be accessed online too. However, updating this archive is not done daily and sometimes you would find a big gap between the current day news and the latest update in the archive.

All in all, the online version of Alwatan newspaper is an asset to its contribution in disseminating news about Oman in a wider context like the world wide web.

  • the only privately owned daily - owned by a business group; established in 1971; Editor in-chief - Muhammad Ibn Suleiman at-Tani; enjoys high popularity; has a circulation of 40,000. Although the daily is privately owned, the government has a right (by law) to censor materials. Arab Media Review: Index of Arab Newspapers

Qatar

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  • Al-Watan is one of the five Qatari dailies. Al-Watan's chairman is Hamad bin Sahim al Thani, a member of the royal family (All of the papers are owned by different branches of the royal family). The Foreign Minister, Hamed bin Jasem bin Jaber al Thani, owns half of the newspaper. Arab Media Review: Index of Arab Newspapers

Cartoons (also includes a cartoon in the Oman newspaper of the same name; that is now on the article)

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