Al-Rai Al-Aam

Al-Rayaam
الرأي العام
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Publisher	Ali Ismail Al Atabani
Editor	Kamal Hassan Bakhiet
Founded	March 15, 1945
Political alignment	Independent
Language	Arabic
Headquarters	Khartoum
Price	SDG 0.50 Sudan ; SAR 2 Saudi Arabia
Website	www.Rayaam.info

Al-Rayaam (also transliterated as Al-Rae Al-Aam, Al-Rai Al-Aam, and Al-Ra'y al-Amm) (Arabic: الرأي العام meaning Public Opinion) is the oldest newspaper in Sudan. It was founded on March 15, 1945, by Ismail Al Atabani.^{[citation needed]} As of 2011, it had a daily circulation of about 18,000.

It is an Islamist paper and had strong links to the government of Omar al-Bashir, but also employed columnists who were anti-government.

References

↑ "Online Journals from the Middle East, primarily in Arabic". Yale University Library. Archived from the original on 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
1 2 3 Shinn, David H. (2015). "Information Media" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan: a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 271–275. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
↑ Sudan Profile; Media, United Kingdom: BBC News, 2012, retrieved 13 September 2012

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[1] "Online Journals from the Middle East, primarily in Arabic". Yale University Library. Archived from the original on 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

[loc2015-2] 1 2 3 Shinn, David H. (2015). "Information Media" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan: a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 271–275. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

[BBC-3] Sudan Profile; Media, United Kingdom: BBC News, 2012, retrieved 13 September 2012