Type Daily newspaper Editor-in-chief Charles Ayoub | Format Broadsheet Language Arabic | |
Publisher Al-Nahdah Publishing House Founded 1941; 76 years ago (1941) | ||
Ad-Diyar (Arabic: الديار meaning The Home) is an Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Beirut, Lebanon.
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History
Ad Diyar was first published in 1941 as an Arabic political daily that is published in broadsheet format.
The editor-in-chief of the paper is Charles Ayoub. Leading Lebanese caricaturist Pierre Sadek worked for the daily.
The circulation of Ad Diyar was 20,000 copies in 2003, making it the third best selling newspaper in Lebanon.
Orientation
The paper is reported to be pro-Syrian. In addition, the daily has close ideological links to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP). The daily gained significant popularity in 1987 when it publicly criticized the militia leaders.
Ad Diyar was temporarily closed by Michel Aoun, then interim Lebanese prime minister and army commander, in January 1990 due to its clash with Aoun policies. The newspaper resumed publication much later.