Type Daily | Editor Mohammad Hassan Altali Website Ad-Dustour website | |
Founded 28 March 1967; 49 years ago (1967-03-28) | ||
Ad-Dustour (Arabic: الدستور, meaning The Constitution) is an Arabic daily newspaper published in Jordan. Its headquarters is in Amman, Jordan.
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History and profile
The first issue of Ad-Dustour (in Arabic الدستور) was published on 28 March 1967 as a result of a merger of two publications: Filastin (in Arabic فلسطين) and Al Manar (in Arabic المنار) published in the West Bank and that had ceased publication in 1967 because of the Six-Day War.
The daily was a private company until 1986 when the Jordanian government bought a share of it. The daily has nearly 600 staff.
From 1991 to 1995 Musa Keilani served as the editor-in-chief of the paper. Its editor was Nabil Sharif until February 2009. Its current editor-in-chief is Muhammad Hasan Altali.
In 1998, the daily went online, the first in the Arab world to do so.
The estimated circulation of Ad-Dustour was 40,000 whereas it was 90,000 copies in 2003.
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The daily contains four or five sections: