Assahra Al Maghribiya (Arabic: الصحراء المغربية) is a daily Arabic Moroccan newspaper of Maroc Soir Group.[1] The group was acquired by Saudi Arabian media executive Othman Al Omeir.[2] The paper was launched in 1989.[3]

Assahra Al Maghribiya
TypeDaily
Owner(s)Maroc Soir Group
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989)
LanguageArabic
HeadquartersCasablanca
Sister newspapersLe Matin
La Mañana (defunct)
Morocco Times (defunct)
Websitewww.almaghribia.ma

The sister publications of the paper are the royalist francophone Le Matin, the hispanophone La Mañana (defunct)[4] and the online Anglophone newspaper Morocco Times (defunct).

References edit

  1. ^ Rugh, William A. (2004). Arab mass media: newspapers, radio, and television in Arab politics. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 102–103. ISBN 0-275-98212-2.
  2. ^ "The Murdoch of the Middle East". The Majalla. 21 May 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Assahra Al Maghribiya". 4imn. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  4. ^ El Sultán Marroquí cierra un semanario por reproducir una información de Minuto Digital Archived 2 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine Minutodigital.com (La Razón), 19 October 2006 (in Spanish)

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