List of Arab newspapers

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This is a list of Arabic-language and other newspapers published in the Arab world. The Arab newspaper industry started in the early 19th century with the Iraqi newspaper Journal Iraq published by Ottoman Wali, Dawud Pasha, in Baghdad in 1816. [1]

Contents

International Arab papers

Algeria

Algerian newspapers in Arabic

Algerian newspapers in French

Bahrain

Egypt

Eritrea

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Libya

Mauritania

Morocco

Oman

Palestine

1948 Palestine

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Somalia

South Sudan

Sudan

Syria

Tunisia

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

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References

  1. Abdallah Shalaby, Salah al Din al Jurshi, Mostafa El Nabarawy, Moheb Zaki, Qays Jawad Azzawi, Antoine Nasri Messarra (2010). Towards a Better Life: How to Improve the State of Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. GPoT. p. 123. ISBN   978-605-4233-21-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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