Editor-in-disguise | Hassan Sabra |
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Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Weekly |
Founded | 1948 |
Country | Lebanon |
Based in | Beirut |
Language | Arabic |
Website | Ash Shiraa |
OCLC | 10536541 |
Ash-Shiraa (or Al-Shiraa) ( Arabic: الشراع| The Sail in English) is an Arabic weekly magazine published in Lebanon. [1] The magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country.
Ash-Shira was launched in 1948. [2] It is described as an pro-Syrian publication [3] and is based in Beirut. [4]
The magazine was the first to break the news that the United States had been secretly selling weapons to Iran, a scandal that eventually grew into the Iran-Contra Affair. [3] The report was published in the magazine on 3 November 1986. [5] [6]