Al Arabi (newspaper)

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Al Arabi
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s) Nasserist Party
Political alignment Nasserist
LanguageArabic
Headquarters Cairo
Country Egypt

Al Arabi is a newspaper based in Cairo, Egypt. It is the organ of the Nasserist Party. [1] In the 1990s the paper was one of the opposition publications. [2] In 1998 one of the editors of the paper was arrested and given six-month prison sentence due to the alleged defamation of a pro-government writer, Tharwat Abaza. [3] In 1999 the party declared that it could not finance the paper anymore, and the Egyptian government proposed to provide financial support to the paper. [1] However, the party did not accept the proposal, but reduced the frequency of Al Arabi from daily to weekly. [1]

Former editors-in-chief of the paper include Abdel Halim Qandil and Nasser Abu Tahoun. [4] [5] Of them Qandil held the post until 2007. [6] Another editor-in-chief was Mahmoud Al Maraghi. [7] Mohamed Fayek, a cabinet member during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser, was among the former chairmen of its board. [8]

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