Al-Seyassah

Al-Seyassah
السياسة
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Ahmed Al-Jarallah
Founder(s)Abdulaziz F. Al-Masaeed
Ahmed Al-Jarallah
PublisherDar Al Seyassah Company for Printing, Publishing and Distribution WLL
Editor-in-chiefAhmed Al Jarallah
Founded3 June 1965; 59 years ago (1965-06-03)
LanguageArabic
CountryKuwait
Sister newspapersArab Times
AlHadaf Magazine
Hadafnet
OCLC number54902195
Websitealseyassah.com

Al-Seyassah (Arabic: السياسة, romanized: as-Siyāssa, lit. 'Politics'; also transliterated Al-Siyasa) is a Kuwaiti daily newspaper published by Dar Al-Seyassah Press Publishing Printing and Distribution Co.[1] The editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Ahmed Al-Jarallah.[1]

History

Al-Seyassah was launched on 3 June 1965 as a weekly magazine by Ahmed Al-Jarallah and owned by Abdulaziz F. Al-Masaeed.[2][3][4] In 1968, Al-Jarallah bought Al-Seyassah from Al-Masaeed with a bank loan and, with assistance from his friend the minister of information, obtained the license to turn the weekly magazine to a daily newspaper format.[5]<[6]

Naji al-Ali worked for the paperfrom 1968 to 1974.[7] In 1977, Jarallah expanded Al-Seyassah into a media group, which also publishes the English-language Arab Times newspaper and the weekly magazine Al-Hadaf (Arabic: الهدف, lit. 'The Target') in partnership with Syrian businessman Mazen Al-Tarazi.[8]

In 1977, the assets of Al-Seyassah were estimated at more than five million Kuwaiti dinars ($17.25m) in 1977 values, including a printing plant which was at the time the most modern in the region.[9]

In 2003, the newspaper held the 4th circulation ranking in Kuwait, with an adult readership of 302,700, a daily circulation of 75,679 copies, and a market share of 16.82%.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana Nenova, Andrei Shleifer. (October 2003). "Who Owns The Media?" Journal of Law and Economics, XLVI(2). Media data country files.
  2. ^ Kuwait. Press Reference. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. ^ Kjetil Selvik (2011). "Elite Rivalry in a Semi-Democracy: The Kuwaiti Press Scene". Middle Eastern Studies. 47 (3): 477–496. doi:10.1080/00263206.2011.565143. S2CID 154057034.
  4. ^ "Kuwait". The Arab Press network. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  5. ^ Haya Al Mughni; Mary Ann Tétreault (2004). "Engagement in the Public Sphere: Women and the Press in Kuwait". In Naomi Sakr (ed.). Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression. London: I.B.Tauris. p. 122. doi:10.5040/9780755604838.ch-008. ISBN 978-1-85043-545-7.
  6. ^ "21 information ministers have successively assumed responsibility for the ministry since Kuwait's independence". Al-Anbna Newspaper. 11 November 2011.
  7. ^ Arab and Muslim Media Reactions to the Fall of Baghdad MEMRI. 11 April 2003. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  8. ^ Ahmed Al-Jarallah: Bio Archived 30 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, The Emirate Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR).
  9. ^ "The Gulf reporter who became a newspaper tycoon". Events 3. Shore Varrone, Inc., 1977. p. 51.