''Al Ra'i'' ( ar, الرأي, meaning "The Opinion"), also spelled ''Alrai'', is an Arabic daily newspaper in

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. The Jordan Press Foundation, owner of the ''Al Rai'', is government-owned.

History

After the occupation of the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

in June 1967, Jordan needed a media arm to transmit the government's point of view, the only newspaper that was published in Jordan at the time was '' Ad-Dustour'', an independent newspaper from

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

. On 13 May 1971, the Jordanian Prime Minister

Wasfi al-Tal Wasfi Tal ( ar, وصفي التل; also known as Wasfi Tell; 19 January 1919 – 28 November 1971) was a Jordanian politician, statesman and general. He served as the 15th Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms, 1962–63, 1965–67 a ...

issued law number 26 in 1971 to establish the Jordan Press Foundation which is the publisher. On 2 June 1971, the first issue of ''Al Rai'' was published. The daily was the second newspaper to be published by a company owned by the Jordanian government. The first being ''Al Sharq Al Arabi'' (صحيفة الشرق العربي), which had its first issue published in 1923. The newspaper is owned and published by Jordan Press Foundation. The company later began to publish an English daily, ''

The Jordan Times ''The Jordan Times'' is an English-language daily newspaper based in Amman, Jordan. History Established in 1975, ''The Jordan Times'' is owned by the Jordan Press Foundation, a shareholding company which also runs the Arabic-language daily '' A ...

''. ''Al Rai'' launched its Palestinian edition on 5 October 2005. In August 2008, the daily started its

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, ''Minbar Al Rai'', and in May 2009 it launched a

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for advertisements. Its estimated circulation was 45,000 copies in 1985 whereas it was 90,000 copies in 2003. The officials of the paper stated that the daily's circulation was 80,000 in 2010.

Content and staff

The newspaper is composed of five sections: * Mahalleyyat (Local news) * Arabs and the World: Section for international news. * Sports * Economy * Literature and Arts The

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of ''Al Ra'i'' are appointed by the Jordanian government. The former editors-in-chief of the daily include Abdul Wahab Zaghilat, Samih Maaytah and Mohammad Tal. In late 2011 Majid Asfour was appointed editor-in-chief. Tariq AL-Momani is the current editor-in-chief of the paper.

References

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History

Content and staff

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