Ash-Shiraa (or Al-Shiraa) (Arabic: الشراع| The Sail in English) is an Arabic weekly magazine published in Lebanon.[1] The magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country.
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| Editor-in-disguise | Hassan Sabra |
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| Categories | News magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Based in | Beirut |
| Language | Arabic |
| Website | Ash Shiraa |
| OCLC | 10536541 |
History and profile
editAsh-Shira was launched in 1948.[2] It is described as an pro-Syrian publication[3] and is based in Beirut.[4]
Content
editThe magazine was the first to break the news that the United States had been secretly selling weapons to Iran, a scandal that eventually grew into the Iran-Contra Affair.[3] The report was published in the magazine on 3 November 1986.[5][6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mahmoud M. Hammoud; Walid A. Afifi (1994). "Lebanon". In Yahya R. Kamalipour; Hamid Mowlana (eds.). Mass Media in the Middle East:A Comprehensive Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0313285356.
- ^ Anis Moussalem. "The Great Stages of the Lebanese Press". Opus Libani. Archived from the original on 6 May 2001. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
- ^ a b Shireen T. Hunter (Spring 1987). "After the Ayatollah". Foreign Policy. 66 (66): 77–97. doi:10.2307/1148665. JSTOR 1148665.
- ^ Ihsan A. Hijazi (27 December 1986). "The Press is Thriving in Lebanon". The New York Times.
- ^ Melissa Boyle Mahle (2005). Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA. Perseus Books Group. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7867-3759-8.
- ^ Ulrich von Schwerin (2015). "Mehdi Hashemi and the Iran-Contra-Affair". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 42 (4): 521. doi:10.1080/13530194.2015.1028520. S2CID 218602348.