Al-Madina (Israeli newspaper)
Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Rana Asali |
Founder(s) | Kamil Silbak |
Founded | 2004 |
Language | Arabic |
Headquarters | Haifa, Israel |
Country | Israel |
Circulation | 27,000 |
Website | www.almadina.co.il |
Al-Madina (Arabic: المدينة, meaning The City) is an Arabic local newspaper, printed weekly in tabloid format, published and distributed for free in Israel.
History
[edit]Al-Madina appears in two editions. One edition is published in Haifa and distributed in the north of Israel in 15,000 copies since 2004. Its editor-in-chief is Firas Khatib.[1] Until 2006, the editor-in-chief was Ala Hlehel, an Arab-Israeli writer and two-time winner of the[2] A. M. Qattan Foundation Literature Awards. The other edition is published in Tel Aviv, with 12,000 copies distributed throughout central Israel since 2006. The editor-in-chief is Ghaleb Kiwan, who is also a news reporter for Arabic-language broadcasts on the Israeli cable provider HOT.[3]
In addition to international, national and local news coverage, the paper publishes opinion pieces and articles on health, sports, arts and culture.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. University of Oxford
- ^ "BANIPAL 2006- Contributors". Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Arab-Israelis and War. Kishkushim
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