''Echorouk'' (in Arabic الشروق اليومي) or ''Ech Chorouk El Youmi'' (

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, aš-šurūqu-l-yawmi, ''The Daily Dawn'') is a daily newspaper in

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published Saturday to Thursday in the

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format. It is the second-largest daily

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newspaper (after '' El Khabar'').

History

''Echorouk El Yawmi'' was started in 1990 under the name of ''Echorouk Al Arabi''. It is independent, and often critical of the government and the Islamist rebel movements which remain active after the

Algerian Civil War The Algerian Civil War ( ar, rtl=yes, الْحَرْبُ الْأَهْلِيَّةُ الجَزَائِرِيَّةُ, al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhlīyah al-Jazāʾirīyah) was a civil war in Algeria fought between the Algerian government and various Is ...

. The newspaper also publishes ''Echorouk El Ousboui'', a weekly supplement. The newspaper's online version – ''Echorouk Online'' – was the third most visited website in 2010 in the MENA region. In July 2015, ''Echorouk El Yawmi'' partnered with the British Council in Algeria to launch a competition to learn English. The newspaper used to publish a series of weekly articles in English from July 24 to August 20, 2015. Participants had to read the articles then answer the two asked questions on the newspaper's website, the British Council's website, or the

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page. The prizes were granted to five winners and were awarded in September in a ceremony held at the UK Ambassador's Residence in Algiers in presence of prominent personalities.

2006 Qadhafi affair

In a fall 2006 trial, the leader of neighbouring

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Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

, took the unprecedented step of suing the paper in an Algerian court for defamation. The court decided on October 31 that Ech Chorouk's reporting of Qadhafi's attempts to induce Algerian

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had slandered the Libyan leader, and suspended the paper for two months. The editor and the responsible reporter were both sentenced to six months in jail. The verdict was condemned as a strike against press freedom by virtually the entire Algerian independent press and numerous political parties, as well as from international press watchdogs.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Echorouk 1990 establishments in Algeria Newspapers published in Algeria Arabic-language newspapers Publications established in 1990 Mass media in Algiers