''Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki'' ( ar, الإتحاد الإشتراكي meaning ''The Socialist Union'')
is a daily
Moroccan Arabic-language
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newspaper
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History and profile
''Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki'' was first published in May 1983.
[Morocco Press]
''Press Reference''. Retrieved 21 January 2013.[Morocco]
''The Arab Press Network''. Retrieved 21 January 2013. It is the successor to ''Al Muharrir
''Al Muharrir'' (; ''the Liberator'' or ''the Editor'') was an Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Morocco. It was in circulation between December 1974 and June 1981.
History and profile
''Al Muharrir'' was first published in December 1 ...
'' (''The Editor'' in English) which was shut down in June 1981.[
The paper is the organ of the ]Socialist Union of Popular Forces
The Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( ar, الاتحاد الاشتراكي للقوات الشعبية, translit=Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtirakiy Lilqawat Al-Sha'abiyah; zgh, ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⵏⵉⵖⴰⵍⵍⵏ ⵉⴳ ...
party.francophone
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newspaper ''Libération
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''.[ Mohammad Brini served as the director of ''Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki'' which is based in ]Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
.
The 2001 circulation of the paper was 110,000 copies, making it the largest daily in Morocco.[ It dropped to 65,000 copies in 2003.][
During the ]war in Iraq
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Iraq and its predecessor states.
Other armed conflicts involving Iraq
* Wars during Mandatory Iraq
** Ikhwan raid on South Iraq 1921
* Smaller conflicts, revolutions, coups and periphery confli ...
''Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki'' added "No War" in English to the banner of each page which included Iraq-oriented news.
See also
* List of newspapers in Morocco
Newspapers in Morocco are primarily published in Arabic and French, and to a lesser extent in Berber, English, and Spanish. ''Africa Liberal'', a Spanish daily, was the first paper published in the country which was launched in 1820. ''Al Maghri ...
References
External links
Official website
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1983 establishments in Morocco
Arabic-language newspapers
Mass media in Casablanca
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Publications established in 1983
Socialist newspapers