GSN: A potted history


Issue 1000 - 22 Sep 2015 | 1 minute read

Created in Beirut in 1974, the publication – then called Middle East Newsletter – was sold in the late 1970s to London-based IC Publications, owned by Tunisian-born publisher Afif Ben Yedder. Middle East Newsletter routinely carried articles on countries in North Africa and the fringes of the Middle East region, including Turkey and Sudan, as well as the Gulf states. GSN was first published under this title in December 1980 (issue 151), following IC’s successful launches of separate newsletters on Saudi Arabia and North Africa in 1979. GSN’s then remit was to cover Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

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