Ash-Shiraa

Ash-Shiraa
Editor-in-disguiseHassan Sabra
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1948; 78 years ago (1948)
CountryLebanon
Based inBeirut
LanguageArabic
WebsiteAsh Shiraa
OCLC10536541

Ash-Shiraa (or Al-Shiraa) (Arabic: الشراع| The Sail in English) is an Arabic weekly magazine published in Lebanon. The magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country.

History and profile

Ash-Shira was launched in 1948. It is described as a pro-Syrian publication and is based in Beirut.

Content

The 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. The report was published in the magazine on 3 November 1986.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Anis Moussalem. "The Great Stages of the Lebanese Press". Opus Libani. Archived from the original on 6 May 2001. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 Shireen T. Hunter (Spring 1987). "After the Ayatollah". Foreign Policy. 66 (66): 77–97. doi:10.2307/1148665. JSTOR 1148665.
  4. ↑ Ihsan A. Hijazi (27 December 1986). "The Press is Thriving in Lebanon". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.