Alrai Alaam

{{Short description|Kuwaiti newspaper}} {{about|the Kuwaiti daily newspaper|the Jordanian daily newspaper|Al Ra'i (Jordanian newspaper)|the oldest newspaper in Sudan|Al-Rai Al-Aam}} {{see also|Al Rai (Kuwaiti newspaper)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{infobox newspaper | name = Al Rai Alaam <br/> الرأي العام | logo = | image = | caption = | type = Daily (launched as a weekly) | format = | owners = Almasaeed Family | founder = Abdulaziz Almasaeed | publisher = | editor = Yousef Al masaaeed | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | seniorstaff = | staff_writers = | founded = {{start date and age|1961|4|16|df=yes|paren=yes}} | political_position = | language = Arabic | ceased_publication = 1995 | relaunched = | headquarters = Kuwait City <br />(previously headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon) | circulation = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | website = {{URL|alrayalaam.com}} (in Arabic) }}

'''''Al Ray Alaam''''' ({{Langx|ar|الرأي العام|lit=Public Opinion}}) was a Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily newspaper that ceased publication in 1995.

==History and operations== The newspaper was launched by Abdulaziz Al Massaeed on 16 April 1961 as a weekly with the name of '''''Al Rai Aam'''''.<ref name=sel>{{cite journal|author=Kjetil Selvik|title=Elite Rivalry in a Semi-Democracy: The Kuwaiti Press Scene|journal= Middle Eastern Studies|year=2011|volume=47|issue=3|pages=477–496|doi=10.1080/00263206.2011.565143|s2cid=154057034}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Haya Al Mughni|author2=Mary Ann Tétreault|editor=Naomi Sakr|title=Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression|year=2004 |publisher=I.B.Tauris|location=London|page=122|chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755604838.ch-008|doi=10.5040/9780755604838.ch-008 |chapter=Engagement in the Public Sphere: Women and the Press in Kuwait|isbn=978-1-85043-545-7}}</ref> Al Masaeed was both the owner and the publisher of the newspaper that was initially published in Beirut, Lebanon.<ref name=sel/><ref>{{cite thesis|title=The Effect of Online Journalism on the Freedom of Press: The Case of Kuwait|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1893/794|location=University of Stirling|author=Ali Abdulsamad Dashti|degree=PhD|year=2008|hdl=1893/794}}</ref> Later it was relaunched as a daily based in Kuwait.<ref name=sel/> ''Alrai Alaam'' ceased publication for ten days on 26 January 1970 when it was suspended by the Kuwaiti authorities due to its harsh criticism of the editorial of Mohamed Heikal published in the Egyptian newspaper ''Al-Ahram''.<ref>{{cite journal|issue=2 |title=Chronology November 16, 1969-February 15, 1970|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Spring 1970|volume=24|page=192|jstor=4324584}}</ref> The license of ''Alrai Alaam'' was rented to ''Jassim Al Boodai'' and in 1995, and it was re-published as ''Al Rai'' in 2006 after the new press law and under new ownership''.<ref name="alar">{{cite news|title=Abdullah Kamal|publisher=Al Arabiya|access-date=5 October 2014|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/authors/Abdullah-Kamal.html}}</ref>''

==See also== {{portal|Journalism|Kuwait|Lebanon}} * List of Arab newspapers * List of newspapers in Kuwait * List of newspapers in Lebanon

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{URL|alrayalaam.com}}, the newspaper's official website (in Arabic)

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