Al-Alam

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Al-Alam
العَلـــم
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"al-Alam: Tongue of the Istiqlal Party"
Type Daily newspaper
Editor-in-chiefOmar Al Darkoli
Founded1946;78 years ago (1946)
Language Arabic
Headquarters Rabat
Sister newspapers L'Opinion
Website Al Alam

Al-Alam (Arabic : العَلم, lit.  'The Flag') is an Arabophone Moroccan daily newspaper. [1]

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History and profile

Al Alam was founded in September 1946. [1] [2] The paper, based in Rabat, [3] is the organ of the nationalist Istiqlal party. [4] [5] [6] The party also publishes L'Opinion . [4]

During the mid-1970s, the paper was frequently banned by the Moroccan authorities together with its sister publication, L'Opinion, and Al Muharrir , another opposition paper. [7]

The 2001 circulation of Al Alam was 100,000 copies, making it the second largest daily in the country. [8] The circulation had fallen to 18,000 copies in 2003. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Thomas K. Park; Aomar Boum (2006). Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Scarecrow Press. p. 243. ISBN   978-0-8108-6511-2.
  2. ↑ Valérie K. Orlando (2009). Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 135. ISBN   978-0-230-62259-3.
  3. ↑ "Media landscape. Morocco". Menasset. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  4. 1 2 Moha Ennaji (2005). Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Education in Morocco. Springer. p. 103. ISBN   978-0-387-23979-8.
  5. 1 2 William A. Rugh (2004). Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics. Westport: Praeger. p. 98. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2017.[ ISBN missing ]
  6. ↑ Loubna H. Skalli (2011). "Constructing Arab Female Leadership Lessons from the Moroccan Media". Gender & Society. 25 (475): 473–495. doi:10.1177/0891243211411051. S2CID   145483355.
  7. ↑ Mohammed Ibahrine (2005). "The Internet and Politics in Morocco" (PDF). Hamburg: University of Hamburg. Archived from the original (PhD Thesis) on 17 October 2014.
  8. ↑ Morocco Press Press Reference. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
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