''NOW News'' (sometimes abbreviated NOW, formerly ''NOW Lebanon'') is a

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-based Lebanese

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focused on the

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founded in late 2012 and published in both

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and

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by M Publishing SAL. The site offers reports, news, features, and analysis on

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, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. The website offers minute-by-minute news updates as well as a special section and live

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on the civil war in Syria.

History

On 14 March 2005 an estimated 1 million Lebanese took to the streets concentrated in

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primarily to protest Syrian military occupation of Lebanon and Syrian intelligence and political domination of Lebanon since 1976. The mass mobilization was triggered by widespread unrest following accusations of Syrian involvement in the 14 February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister

Rafic Hariri Rafic Bahaa El Deen Al Hariri ( ar, رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from ...

. The New Opinion Workshop (NOW) was created to provide news reports and opinion pieces as well as a digest of relevant news and opinion from a variety of media outlets. It aims to enable Lebanese citizens and the Lebanese diaspora to stay informed on a wide range of issues. NOW News is the redesigned website that was known as "NOW Lebanon". The change came in late 2012 as the site’s publisher decided to widen the scope of coverage to include the wider Middle East region. NOW News has a large online readership mainly from the

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, and Australia. Due to a financial crisis, the NOW website was taken down in December 2017. On June 15, 2021, NOW Lebanon was officially put back online, but the old archives were lost due to the destruction of the main servers after the 2020 explosion.

Contributors

Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese author and commentator.

Hussein Ibish Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish (Arabic Language, Arabic: حسين يوسف كمال أيبش; is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a weekly columnist for Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg and The National (Abu Dha ...

,"Hussein Ibish on American Task Force on Palestine"
/ref> a senior fellow at the

American Task Force on Palestine The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) is an organization founded in 2003 to advocate that it is in the American national interest to promote an end to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict through the creation of a Palestinian state alongside ...

Michael Weiss Michael Weiss may refer to: Sports * Michael Weiss (figure skater) (born 1976), American former figure skater * Michael Weiss (swimmer) (born 1991), American swimmer * Michael Weiss (triathlete) (born 1981), Austrian triathlete and cyclist * Mich ...

,"Michael Weiss on Henry Jackson Society"
/ref> former director of communications at the

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. Tony Badran,"Tony Badran on Foundation for Defense of Democracies"
/ref> a research fellow at the

Foundation for Defense of Democracies The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank and registered lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C., United States. The group's political leanings have been described as hawkish and neoconservati ...

. Michael Young, opinion-page editor of '' The Daily Star''.

Staff

Publisher :M Publishing, Sal Managing Editor :Hanin Ghaddar (English) :Alex Rowell (English) :Ana Maria Luca (English) : Okab Sakr Production Editors :Ranya Radwan (English) :Saleh Hodeifi (Arabic) News Desk Editors :Albin Szakola (English) :Liliana Mihaila (English) Blog Editor :Liliana Mihaila (English) Reporters :Alex Rowell :Ana Maria Luca :Myra Abdallah :Amin Nasr Fixer :Myra Abdallah (English) :Amin Nasr (English)

References

External links

English Site

Arabic Site
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History

Contributors

Staff

See also

References

External links