''Ad-Dustour'' ( ar, الدستور, meaning ''The Constitution'') is an Arabic daily newspaper published 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 ...

. Its headquarters is in

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 ...

, Jordan.

History and profile

The first issue of ''Ad-Dustour'' (in

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الدستور) was published on 28 March 1967 as a result of a merger of two publications: Filastin (in

فلسطين) and ''Al Manar'' (in

المنار) published in 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 ...

and that had ceased publication in 1967 because of the

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. The daily was a private company until 1986 when the Jordanian government bought a share of it. The daily has nearly 600 staff. From 1991 to 1995 Musa Keilani served as the

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of the paper. Its editor was Nabil Sharif until February 2009. Its current editor-in-chief is Mustafa Riyalat. In 1998, the daily started its website, the first in

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to do so. The estimated circulation of ''Ad-Dustour'' was 40,000 whereas it was 90,000 copies in 2003. An Arabic website, Industry Arabic, named ''Ad Dustour'' as the most influential Arabic newspaper in 2020.

The daily contains four or five sections: *First Section: for headline and domestic news. *Second Section: for international news, business and economy. *Addustour Alriyadi: for international and domestic sport news. *Doroob: for miscellaneous news related to health and living styles. *The Cultural Section: This section appears every Friday and contains domestic, regional, and international cultural events. *Al-Shabab: This section is published every Wednesday, and daily during major sport competitions such as

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. It covers weekly domestic, and international youth events.

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