Syria Times

Syria Times

"Syria Times" is an English-language Syrian daily newspaper.

Syria Times is published by the same government-owned company that prints the leading Arabic daily Tishreen. These two newspapers have a circulation (as of 2000) of respectively 5.000 and 60.000.

In March and April 2003 Syria Times received some international attention because of its harsh condemnation of the US-led war against Iraq, well in line with the official Syrian discourse in the debates of UN’s Security Council. For instance the Irish Times noticed that “Syria Times attacks Bush's "unholy war" and his "imperialist strategy to control the Arab oil-rich region””

In an interview with the "Middle East" magazine, Fuad Mardood, the editor of Syria Times, said: “I cannot imagine that there is anyone in Syria who wants to attack our policy (…) You can find people who have personal motives who may attack the system, but it is only to achieve personal goals.”

In late May 2008 Mohammad Agha was released from his position as editor-in-chief of Syria Times. The decision was apparently made by the Minister for Information, Mohsen Bilal. A history of differences between the two has been reported. The official reason given was a mistake regarding the caption accompanying a photograph placing the wrong name with the figure photographed.

On June 8 2008 Syria Times closed for an indefinate period of time. Various reasons were given, chief amongst them issues relating to the contract for the new editor-in-chief. A report on the viability of Syria Times was delivered to the People's Asssembly (the Syrian Parliament) on July 2 and a decision regarding the newspaper's future is expected on July 16.

ee also

*George, Alan: ”In Syria, the media is the system”, Middle East; Nov 2000; p. 38.
*Joe Humphreys: ” WAR ON IRAQ - WAR BRIEFING”, in: The Irish Times, March 24, 2003, p. 8.

External links

* [http://syriatimes.tishreen.info/ Syria Times]


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