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Type of site | News, features, analysis, and much more |
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| Available in | English andArabic |
| Owner | M Publishing SAL |
| URL | https://nowlebanon.com/ |
| Launched | 2012; 13 years ago (2012) |
NOW News[1][2][3][4][5] (sometimes abbreviatedNOW, formerlyNOW Lebanon) is aBeirut-based Lebanesenews website focused on theMiddle East founded in late 2012 and published in bothEnglish andArabic by M Publishing SAL.[6]
The site offers reports, news, features, and analysis onLebanon, theLebanese diaspora and the Middle East. The website offers minute-by-minute news updates as well as a special section and liveblog onthe civil war inSyria.[citation needed]
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On 14 March 2005 an estimated 1 million Lebanese took to the streets concentrated inMartyrs' Square, Beirut primarily to protestSyrian military occupation of Lebanon and Syrian intelligence and political domination of Lebanon since 1976. The mass mobilization was triggered by widespread unrest following accusations of Syrian involvement in the 14 February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime MinisterRafic Hariri.
The New Opinion Workshop (NOW) was created to provide news reports and opinion pieces as well as a digest of relevant news and opinion from a variety of media outlets. It aims to enableLebanese citizens and theLebanese diaspora to stay informed on a wide range of issues.
NOW News is the redesigned website that was known as "NOW Lebanon".[6] The change came in late 2012 as the site's publisher decided to widen the scope of coverage to include the wider Middle East region.
NOW News has a large online readership mainly from theUnited States,Canada,European Union, andAustralia.
Due to a financial crisis, the NOW website was taken down in December 2017.[citation needed]
On 15 June 2021, NOW Lebanon was officially put back online, but the old archives were lost due to the destruction of the main servers afterthe 2020 explosion.
Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese author and commentator.
Hussein Ibish,[7] a senior fellow at theAmerican Task Force on Palestine.
Michael Weiss,[8] former director of communications at theHenry Jackson Society.
Tony Badran,[9] a research fellow at theFoundation for Defense of Democracies.
Michael Young,[10] opinion-page editor ofThe Daily Star.
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