Akhbar Al-Naqab
Akhbar
Al-Naqab is a free, weekly, regional
newspaper focuses on issues related to
Al-Naqab (the southern part of Israel, in
Hebrew called the Negev). It is published on
Tuesdays and distributed all over the Negev.
The
newspaper was started in 1988. Its office is
located in Rahat, the largest Arab town in
the Negev. The paper covers the news of the
Negev Bedouins (approximately 170,000 in the
beginning of 2006) in addition to news
interesting for this community.
The
newspaper is independent, and it focuses on
educational-social issues. It fights
negative behaviors and traditions, aims at
raising the awareness of the Negev Arabs to
their civil rights in all the fields through
its articles, interviews and reports.
It is
popular in the south because of its
solidarity with the people, reliability,
neutrality, and consideration of the
community's culture and characteristics as a
traditional Bedouin community going through
a transitional period.
Due to
the special nature of the Bedouin Negev
community's life and their living in
governmentally planned towns and officially
unrecognized villages, the newspaper covers
this issue showing human rights violations,
home demolition, and the conflict between
the Bedouins and authorities with regard to
land and home.
The
paper mainly depends on commercials, which
makes it free. It also publishes its news on
its Arabic website launched in 1997.
The
newspaper aims at qualifying journalists
from the Negev because of their rarity in
the Negev, improving both its form and
content, and developing its website.
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www.akhbarna.com akhbar@akhbarna.com
tel. ++972-8-9919202 fax. ++972-8-9917070
P.O. Box 426 Rahat 85357 Israel
