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List of newspapers in Lebanon. 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]
By 1996, three newspapers from Lebanon were online, Al Anwar, An-Nahar, and As-Safir, and by 2000, more than 200 websites provided news out of Lebanon like the leading Daily Beirut news portal. [2] Internet penetration from 2013 to 2016 has increased rapidly in Lebanon. [ 19 ]
On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an attack that CNN said was the result of a joint operation between Israel’s intelligence service and the Israeli Defense Forces. [9]
Knayzeh, now a lecturer at a university in France, was visiting Lebanon when news broke Tuesday of a deadly attack in which thousands of handheld pagers were blowing up in homes, shops, markets and streets across the country. Israel, local news reports said, was targeting the devices of the militant Hezbollah group. Stuck in Beirut traffic ...
Fear Grips Lebanon After Deadly Twin Pager and Radio Blasts. Justin Salhani / Beirut. September 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM. A funeral ceremony held for four people who were killed in Lebanon when pagers ...
Circulation. 45,000 (2012) Website. www.annahar.com. An-Nahar (Arabic: النهار, lit. 'The Day or The Morning') is a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Lebanon. In the 1980s, An-Nahar was described by The New York Times and Time Magazine as the newspaper of record for the entire Arab world. [1][2]
Knayzeh was in Lebanon visiting when news broke Tuesday that hundreds of handheld pagers had exploded across the country, killing 12, injuring thousands and setting off fires. Israel, local news reports said, was targeting the devices of the militant Hezbollah group. Stuck in Beirut traffic, Knayzeh started panicking that drivers around him ...
The paper covers politics, local and international news, finance and economics, culture, entertainment as well as sports. [7] According to the Arab Press Network, an offshoot of WAN-IFRA, it is the most widely read Francophone daily newspaper in Lebanon and is "partisan to a liberal, Christian leaning line." [8] [9]