Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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A selection of Jordanian daily papers (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Jordanian newspapers facing financial crisis

by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Jul 18, 2013 | Media

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—Jordan’s daily newspapers are facing a severe financial crisis resulting from the repercussions of the global economic downturn’s knock-on effects on advertising and marketing, as well as the rise of electronic media, which threatens...

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Asharq Al-Awsat file photo. (James Hanna/Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: The little green acorn that became an oak

by Amir Taheri | Jul 4, 2013 | Opinion

It was hard to miss: a green newspaper in a crowded news stand. I knew of the pink paper, London’s Financial Times, but a green paper was unexpected. It was the autumn of 1978 and I was on my way back to Tehran from Paris. The green intruder was Asharq Al-Awsat, a...

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The front pages of the Sunday edition of Iranian newspapers, published with pictures of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a hopeful for the upcoming presidential election, are seen on Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran seeks tighter control of visiting foreign journalists

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 29, 2013 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iranian culture minister Mohamed Hosseini will seek to tighten rules to supervise visiting foreign journalists, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday. Hosseini was quoted as saying that tighter measures overseeing the...