Al Arabi (newspaper)
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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]
References
- ^ S2CID 145021477.
- S2CID 143395325.
- ISBN 978-3-319-16700-8.
- ^ Nabil Fahmi (8 November 2011). "Egypt Elections: Nasserist Party". The Cairo Review. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- JSTOR 41859016.
- ^ "Abdel Halim Kandil General Coordinator of the Kefaya Movement". Masress. Youm7. 15 May 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
- ^ Hesham Sallam (26 October 2020). "From the State of Vanguards to the House of Kofta: Reflections on Egypt's Authoritarian Impasse". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- ^ "Mr. Minister / Mohamed Fayek". Boutros Ghali Foundation. Retrieved 4 November 2022.