Assafir Newspaper - Beirut, Lebanon

Assafir is an arabic language daily newspaper in Lebanon. It was first published in the 26 of March 1974, one year prior to the civil war.

Assafir offers daily news coverage, essentially political, economical, business, sports, social, educational, cultural and world news.
In addition, Assafir leads the way in dealing with humanitarian issues, and offers the best social and youth features in the arab world.

Assafir is owned by Talal Salman since it was launched in 1974. with a clear political and social left wing editorial line, Assafir presents a variety of opinion columns and point of views relating to the current political crisis in Lebanon.

Many great generations of arab writers and journalists started behind Assafir bureaus, and made their names while working in this  

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institution, such as the late Joseph Samaha, Bilal al Hassan, Hazem Saghiyeh, Saad Mehio, Jihad Al Zein, Fawwez Traboulsi, Bilal Amer, Georges Nassif, Faysal salman, the famous Naji Al Ali and many others..

Nowadays, Assafir's staff is considered one of the best in the business, ranging from ambitious young journalists to senior arab writers, like Talal Salman, Sateh Noureldin, Abbas Baydoun, Youssef Berjaoui, helmi moussa, Georges Alam, wassef Awada, Nouhad Al Machnouk, Zouheir Hawari, Adnan El Hajj, Houssam Itani, Wissam Saade and Sami Kleib.

During the last Israeli aggression on Lebanon, Assafir offered the best field coverage of the events, and many young journalists risked their lives to get hot stories from the South and the southern suburbs of Beirut.