''Babel'' was an
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
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newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
which was published under the direction of
Uday Hussein
Uday Saddam Hussein ( ar, عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician and the eldest son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head ...
, the son of
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...
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History and profile
''Babel'' was launched during the
Gulf War
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...
in 1991. It was one of the newspapers owned by Uday Hussein. He was also the founder of the paper which was published both in
Arabic
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and
English
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* English people
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.
The paper was banned by then Iraqi government for one month in November 2002 for unexplained causes.
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1991 establishments in Iraq
2002 disestablishments in Iraq
Arabic-language newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in Iraq
English-language newspapers published in Arab countries
Publications established in 1991
Publications disestablished in 2002
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