List of newspapers in Kuwait

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Newspapers in Kuwait are published in English, French and Urdu, in addition to Arabic. [1] the publishing reach the peak at 2009 there were 14 Arabic dailies, three English dailies and a dozens weekly newspapers in Kuwait. [2] but the numbers decreased since then either by 2008 financial crisis and the increase of digital news sources or by government censorship.

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Al-Kuwait Al-Yawm  [ ar ], first published in 1954, [3] is solely the government gazette used for public matter and not used for journalistic reporting. Publishing certain actions in the gazette is necessary for them to become legally valid, like in instances of name changes.

This is an incomplete list of newspapers in Kuwait.

Arabic language daily newspapers

English language daily and weekly newspapers

Non-daily newspapers

Defunct newspapers

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References

  1. ↑ Barrie Gunter; Roger Dickinson (6 June 2013). News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 26. ISBN   978-1-4411-0239-3 . Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Media sustainability index 2009" (PDF). IREX. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Kuwait Alyawm Online
  4. ↑ Al-Seyassah Online
  5. ↑ Al-Qabas Online Archived 2010-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Al-Anbaa Online
  7. ↑ Al Rai Online
  8. ↑ Annahar Online
  9. ↑ Al-Shahed Online
  10. ↑ Al-Jarida Online
  11. ↑ Al-Sabah Online
  12. ↑ Kuwait Times Online
  13. ↑ Arab Times Online
  14. ↑ Kuwait Magazine Online
  15. ↑ Al-Arabi Online
  16. ↑ Sout AlKhaleej Online
  17. ↑ AlBayan Online
  18. ↑ Afaaq Online
  19. ↑ The Times Kuwait Online
  20. ↑ Al Dustor Online
  21. ↑ DarkPolitics Online
  22. ↑ Al Taleea Online
  23. ↑ Al-Watan Online
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