Type | Daily |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Wafd Party |
Publisher | Wafd Party |
Founded | 1984 |
Political alignment | Opposition ( Centre-right, National liberalism, Egyptian nationalism) |
Headquarters | Dokki, Giza, Egypt |
Website | Al Wafd |
Al-Wafd ( Arabic: الوفد meaning the Mission in English) [1] is the daily newspaper published by the Wafd party in Giza, Egypt.
Al-Wafd was launched in 1984. [2] [3] As the house organ of the liberal-democratic neo-Wafd party, the paper is considered an opposition paper, [4] although both party and paper have oscillated between support and opposition for the regime.
It is one of the highest circulated papers among those dailies owned by a political party in the country. [5] The paper sold more than half a million copies in the 1990s. [6] The circulation of the daily in 2000 was 600,000 copies. [7]
Mohamed Ali Ibrahim was named as the editor-in-chief of the paper in 2005.[ citation needed] Then Abbas Al Tarabili served as the editor-in-chief until February 2009. [8] During the Egyptian revolution in 2011 Osama Heikal was the editor-in-chief. [9] He was appointed information minister in July 2011. [9]
The paper has also an online version, called Al Wafd Gate. [10]
Abbas Al Tarabili, then chief editor of the daily, was fired in February 2009 due to low circulation rates that were between 9,000 and 10,000. [8]
On 4 September 2013, the paper portrayed the US President Barack Obama as Satan due to his support for opposition forces in Syria. [11]