Annahar was first published in Kuwait on 2 September 2007, being the ninth Arabic paper in the country.The owner of the daily is the Dar Annahar for Press, Publishing and Distribution company which is an affiliated body of the Bukhamseen Holding.On 2 September 2007 the daily also launched its website.Imad Bukhamseen is the editor-in-chief of Annahar which covers local and international political, art, culture and economic news.The daily is described as an independent political newspaper with a liberal leaning.The 2012 circulation of the daily was 23,000 copies.

In March 2010, the daily was fined 3.000 Kuwait dinars for publishing an article which was deemed by the authorities as offensive to the ruling family, Al Sabah.

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The paper was launched in 1974.In April 2014, the paper and Alam Al Youm were temporarily closed down for two weeks by the Kuwaiti government due to the publication of a videotape allegedly showing former senior officials plotting a coup in Kuwait.In June 2014, both papers were again shut down for five days because of the same reason.

In February 2015 the Kuwaiti government again shut down Al Watan for positions critical of the government.This has led to criticism of the Kuwaiti government by International agencies such as the Committee to Protect Journalists whose Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, Sherif Mansour said, “The great lengths to which Kuwait has gone to silence Al-Watan belie the government claim that the paper’s shutdown is due to financial requirements. We call on Kuwaiti authorities to foster an environment in which the public has access to a variety of independent voices. They can begin with allowing Al-Watan to resume printing.”

The circulation of Al Watan was 86,000 copies in 2001 and it was the second best selling newspaper in the country.The 2006 circulation of the paper was 100,000 copies.

The paper’s online version was the second most visited website for 2010 in the MENA region.

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Al-Qabas was launched on 22 February 1972.It is owned by Kuwaiti merchant families.The paper is headquartered in Kuwait City.

Until the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq the paper had both national and international editions.During the invasion it moved to London and was first published there on 2 August 1990.

Al Qabas has a weekly supplement on environmental issues, which can be translated into English as Our Environment is Our Life.

The daily had a circulation of 120,000 copies before the invasion of Kuwait in 1991.Its 2001 circulation was 79,000 copies and the paper was the third best selling newspaper in Kuwait.The paper has also online version which had 30,000 weekly hits in 2001.

Al Qabas has a critical approach to government of Kuwait and is a liberal publication.In April 2012, it published an editorial calling for ending the struggle within the ruling family of Kuwait, Al Sabah.

The paper’s editor, Mohammed Al-Sager, is a winner of the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists “for courageous reporting on political and human rights issues in the face of government threats of censorship and prosecution”.

The other significant editors of the daily include Abdel Latif Al Duaaij and Ahmad Bishara.The Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali worked for the paper in the 1980s and he was killed in 1987 while working for the London edition of the daily.

Respected Arab figures also contributed to the daily, including Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz and Egyptian philosopher Fauad Zakara.

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Al Jarida was first published on 2 July 2007.The paper is owned by Mohammed Al-Sager,the former editor-in-chief of Al-Qabas and the former Arab Parliament president. The editor-in-chief for Al-Jarida is Khalid Alhelal.

The paper has a secular stance.On 9 May 2012 the editor-in-chief of the daily was fined 5,000 dinar ($17,550) by the Kuwaiti authorities due to the publication of an article giving the details of the meeting between the Emir and former parliamentarians without taking written approval from the Emiri office in advance.

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At the beginning of 2012, the paper signed an agreement with IMC Digital to improve its popularity in social media. As a result of this effort, the paper reached 30,000 fans on Facebook, over 25,000 followers on Twitter and a minimum of 200,000 video views on YouTube within the first two months of 2012.Furthermore, hits on the website of the paper increased by 30% in the overall traffic and a 20% in the traffic produced by search engines.

The content of the paper focuses on political, social, technical and sport news.It provides all these news in an uncritical way since the paper has a pro-government stance.However, in mid-June 1976, the offices of the paper in Al Sharq area were attacked.In addition, the publication of the paper was ceased twice, in March 1987 and in March 1995, by Kuwaiti courts.The paper also contains news on environmental issues.

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