Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Socialist Union of Popular Forces |
Publisher | Socialist Union of Popular Forces |
Founded | 1983 |
Language | Arabic |
Headquarters | Casablanca |
Sister newspapers | Libération |
Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki (Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكي meaning The Socialist Union)[1] is a daily Moroccan Arabic-language newspaper.
Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki was first published in May 1983.[1][2][3] It is the successor to Al Muharrir (The Editor in English) which was shut down in June 1981.[1]
The paper is the organ of Morocco's Socialist Union of Popular Forces political party.[4][5] Its sister paper is the francophone newspaper Libération.[5][6] Mohammad Brini served as the director of Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki[7] which is based in Casablanca.[8]
The 2001 circulation of the paper was 110,000 copies, making it the largest daily in Morocco.[2] The circulation dropped to 65,000 copies in 2003.[1]
During the war in Iraq Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki added "No War" in English to the banner of each page which included Iraq-oriented news.[9]