Al Akhbar newspaper

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Al Akhbar (الأخبار) is an Arabic daily newspaper based in Lebanon. The newspaper started printing its "zero" issues under difficult circumstance during the Israeli war on Lebanon (July 12 - August 14), and printed its first issue the day the UN-brokered cease-fire went into effect.

Two of the newspaper founders, its Editor-In-Chief Joseph Samaha and Politics Editor Ibrahim Al-Amine were previously working for the Lebanese daily Assafir, which was the second largest newspaper in Lebanon after Annahar. The newspaper license was leased from the Lebanese Communist Party, and the newspaper was funded by a number of mostly Lebanese investors.

The political orientation of Al-Akhbar is considered to be liberal, democratic, and against the US project in the Arab region. In October, 2006 it was joined by Ziad Rahbani, one of the most famous Arab musicians and theatre directors, and the son of legendary Fairuz. The newspaper is printed on an A3 paper size.

The newspaper's website is the only newspaper site in Lebanon and perhaps the Arab region that fully adopted open-source technologies.