Al-Rayaam (also transliterated as Al-Rae Al-Aam,[1] Al-Rai Al-Aam,[2] and Al-Ra'y al-Amm[3]) (Arabic: الرأي العام meaning Public Opinion) is the oldest newspaper in Sudan. It was founded on March 15, 1945, by Ismail Al Atabani.[citation needed] As of 2011, it had a daily circulation of about 18,000.[2]

Al-Rayaam
الرأي العام
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherAli Ismail Al Atabani
EditorKamal Hassan Bakhiet
FoundedMarch 15, 1945
Political alignmentIndependent
LanguageArabic
HeadquartersKhartoum
Websitewww.Rayaam.info

It is an Islamist paper and had strong links to the government of Omar al-Bashir, but also employed columnists who were anti-government.[2]

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  1. ^ "Online Journals from the Middle East, primarily in Arabic". Yale University Library. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  2. ^ a b c Shinn, David H. (2015). "Information Media" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan: a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 271–275. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ^ Sudan Profile; Media, United Kingdom: BBC News, 2012, retrieved 13 September 2012