Arab News
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Turki bin Salman Al Saud |
| Founder(s) | Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) |
| Publisher | Saudi Research and Publishing Company |
| Editor | Faisal J. Abbas |
| Founded | 20 April 1975 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| Circulation | 51,481 |
| Sister newspapers |
Al Eqtisadiah Asharq al Awsat |
| ISSN | 0254-833X |
| OCLC number | 4574467 |
| Website | Arab News |
Arab News is an English-language daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia. It is published simultaneously from Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam. The target audiences of the paper which is published in broadsheet are businessmen, executives and diplomats.
Arab News was founded in Jeddah on 20 April 1975 by Hisham Hafiz and his brother Mohammad Hafiz. It was the first English-language daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia.Arab News is also the first publication of SRPC. The daily was jointly named by Kamal Adham, Hisham Hafiz and Turki bin Faisal.
The paper is one of twenty-nine publications published by Saudi Research and Publishing Company (SRPC), a subsidiary of Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG). The chairman of SRMG and therefore, Arab News is Turki bin Salman Al Saud.
Muhammad Ali Hafiz and Zuhair Al Fakeeh were two early editors of Arab News in 1976. Jihad Khazen is the first editor-in-chief of the paper. Muhammad Al Shibani became the editor-in-chief of the paper in 1981. Later, Khaled Almaeena served as editor-in-chief from 1982 to 1993. Then, Farouk Luqman worked as editor-in-chief beginning in 1993 for a short period. In 1994, Abdul Qader Tash became the editor-in-chief and his tenure lasted for four years.Jamal Khashoggi also worked for the daily as an editor.
The editor-in-chief was again Khaled Almaeena from 1998 to October 2011. The next editor-in-chief was Abdul Wahab Al Faiz until January 2013, former chief editor of Al Eqtisadiah that is another daily paper published under SMRG and former editor of the internationally distributed weekly magazine Al Majalla, another publication of SMRG. Faiz was replaced by Mohammed Fahad Al Harthi in January 2013 as editor-in-chief of the daily. In September 2016, Faisal J. Abbas followed him as editor-in-chief.
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