# Assawt

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{{Short description|Arabic-language newspaper based in Kuwait}}
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'''''Assawt''''' (in Arabic الصوت meaning ''The Voice'' in English), also known as ''Al Sawt'' was an Arabic-language newspaper based in Kuwait.

==History==
''Assawt'' was established in 2008 and its first issue appeared on 21 October 2008.<ref name=iaa>{{cite web|title=Al Sawt Newspaper launched in Kuwait|url=http://www.iaauae.org/en/news/al-sawt-daily-newspaper-launched-in-kuwait.html|work=IAA|accessdate=2 October 2013|date=22 October 2008|archive-date=5 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005002848/http://www.iaauae.org/en/news/al-sawt-daily-newspaper-launched-in-kuwait.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It became the fifteenth daily in the country.<ref name=iaa/><ref>{{cite web|title=The effect of online journalism on the freedom of press: The case of Kuwait|url=https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/794/1/AliDashti01.pdf|publisher=University of Stirling|accessdate=5 October 2013|author=Ali Abdulsamad Dashti|format=PhD Thesis|year=2008}}</ref> Youssef Al Someit, former information minister of Kuwait, headed the daily.<ref name=iaa/>

However, ''Assawt'' was disestablished in January 2009 due to economic reasons.<ref>{{cite news|title=Kuwait's Awan Daily Closes for Economic Reasons |url=http://old.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/3A881DFBCC4FD9BCC225771800220883?OpenDocument&PRINT |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214232/http://old.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/3A881DFBCC4FD9BCC225771800220883?OpenDocument&PRINT |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 October 2013 |accessdate=2 October 2013 |newspaper=Naharnet |date=4 May 2010 |location=Beirut }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Kuwaiti Arabic daily Awan shuts down|url=https://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/kuwaiti-arabic-daily-awan-shuts-down-1.621674|accessdate=2 October 2013|newspaper=Gulf News|date=3 May 2010|author=Habib Toumi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kuwait. Media Market Description|url=http://www.warc.com/Pages/Store/PDF/Newspaper_trends_sample_Kuwait.pdf|work=WARC|accessdate=2 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215451/http://www.warc.com/Pages/Store/PDF/Newspaper_trends_sample_Kuwait.pdf|archive-date=4 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
[List of newspapers in Kuwait](/source/List_of_newspapers_in_Kuwait)

==References==
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Category:2008 establishments in Kuwait
Category:2009 disestablishments in Kuwait
Category:Arabic-language newspapers
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Kuwait
Category:Newspapers established in 2008
Category:Newspapers disestablished in 2009

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