Who’s who in the regional media


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Issue 1000 - 22 Sep 2015 | 10 minute read

The most venerable of London-based pan-Arab publishing houses, Al-Arab was established in 1977 by Ahmed Al-Huni, a Libyan who moved his family out of the country during the Qadhafi era’s first decade. In 2009, the company was restructured and a new Al-Arab Publishing House was registered in London. It is 40% owned by the founder’s son, Mohammed Al-Huni, and 60% by publishing and group executive editor Haitham Al-Zobaidi, who in 2000 helped Al-Arab set up Middle East Online. According to Zobaidi, Al-Arab adopted “a new format and a new way of looking at the region” in 2012.

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