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Hadiqat al-Akhbar (The News Garden in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858. [1] From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. [2] Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400. [3] However, the number reduced to 53 due to the 1963 press law. [3] [4]
Censorship of the press in the country occurred during the Ottoman era. [5] It was also frequent in 1976 following the intervention of Syrian military in the Lebanese Civil War on behalf of Maronite Christians. [6] As of 2012, the newspapers were being published in three major languages of Arabic, English and French [7] and there were 12 Arabic dailies. [3]
The following is a list of well-known newspapers published in Lebanon.
All published in Beirut