LEBANON'S "AL-AKHBAR" AND RADICAL PRESS CULTURE: TOWARD AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARAB LEFT

[...]this left-wing radicalism is precisely the attitude to which there is no longer in general any corresponding political action.1 In December 2010, Robert F. Worth of the New York Times asked al-Akhbar editor-in-chief Ibrahim al-Amin about the paper's founding ambitions. Add splashy full-pag...

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Veröffentlicht in:Arab studies journal 2016-04, Vol.24 (1), p.192-227
Hauptverfasser: Hanssen, Jens, Safieddine, Hicham
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Zusammenfassung:[...]this left-wing radicalism is precisely the attitude to which there is no longer in general any corresponding political action.1 In December 2010, Robert F. Worth of the New York Times asked al-Akhbar editor-in-chief Ibrahim al-Amin about the paper's founding ambitions. Add splashy full-page color photos and witty tabloid-style headlines, and you have an alluring product.5 Al-Akhbar's allure grew, and caught global attention in 2010, after it became the first Arabic paper to obtain and publish exclusive WikiLeaks cables that exposed the decadence and corruption of Arab regimes in general and the Gulf states' warmongering against Iran in particular.6 The subsequent outbreak of the Arab uprisings in 2010-11 would further boost the paper's credentials as a radical progressive voice of the Arab left.
ISSN:1083-4753
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