Gulf Times
newspaper
Gulf Times is an English-language pro-government newspaper published in Doha, Qatar.
Through its publisher, it is owned by Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, formerly the deputy Prime Minister of Qatar, as well as head of the emir's official royal court. Al Raya is Gulf Times' English-language sister newspaper.
The paper is among the three leading English-language newspapers in Qatar, along with The Peninsula and Qatar Tribune.
History
The publisher, Gulf Publishing and Printing Company, was named by its founding members in an assembly which took place on 19 January 1978, during which the name Gulf Times was also chosen for the company's English-language newspaper. The company was founded on 1 June 1978. It received its legal license on 5 August 1978, and two days later the Minister of Information also approved the Publication of Al Raya, Gulf Time's Arabic-language sister publication.
The first edition of Gulf Times was published on 10 December 1978, as a weekly tabloid, under the leadership of Yousef Jassim Darwish, the editor-in-chief of both Gulf Times and Al Raya, whose first issue was published on 10 May 1979. On 22 February 1981, the newspaper transitioned to daily publication. In December 1995, it changed formats to broadsheet.
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