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Tishreen
Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Founder(s)	Tishreen Organization for Press and Publishing
Publisher	Al Wahda institution
Editor-in-chief	Youshra Al Masry
Founded	1975; 50 years ago
Political alignment	Ba'athism
Language	Arabic
Headquarters	Damascus
Country	Syria
Sister newspapers	Syria Times; Al Thawra;
Website	Tishreen
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Tishreen (Arabic: تشرين, romanized: Tishrīn, lit. 'October') is one of the state-owned Arabic daily newspapers published in Syria.^[1]^[2] The daily is based in Damascus and has been in circulation since 1975.^[3] Tishreen was named after the Yom Kippur War in October 1973.^[4]^[5]

History and profile

Tishreen was first published in October 1975.^[6] It is a state-owned publication in addition to two other state-owned dailies, namely Al Baath and Al Thawra, which were launched earlier.^[4] Tishreen Organization for Press and Publishing is the former publisher of the daily.^[4] The company also published Syria Times, a defunct English daily and a current e-newspaper.^[4] Later Al Wahda institution became the publisher of both publications in addition to Al Thawra.^[7] In January 2025, the newspaper changed its name to Al-Hurriya (Freedom) a month after the fall of the Assad regime.^[8]

Content and editors

One of the interviews published in Tishreen was with Nimr Saleh, a dissident member of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1983.^[9] The paper published a poem by Najah Al Attar, culture minister, which was written after the death of Hafez Assad's mother, Naisa Assad, in 1993.^[10] Mohammad Kheir Al Wadi, then editor-in-chief, wrote in January 2000 "Zionism created the Holocaust myth to blackmail and terrorize the world's intellectuals and politicians."^[11] By 2004 the paper became a platform to support the charities in the country along with Al Thawra.^[12] Although the daily is owned by the state, it had a critical stance on local news, especially in regard to corruption and mismanagement in 2012.^[13]

As of 2005 the editor-in-chief was Khalaf Al Jarrad^[14] who was appointed by Hafez Assad to the post in July 2001.^[15] Samira Al Masalmeh was named as the editor-in-chief of Tishreen in January 2012.^[16] She is the first female editor-in-chief in the country.^[16] Then Youshra Al Masry was named as its editor-in-chief.^[17]

Readership and circulation

In 1997, Tishreen launched its website.^[18] The paper also has an English news portal, Syria Millennium, which is accessed through its website.^[19] In 1992 the paper sold 75,000 copies.^[3] Daily circulation of Tishreen was nearly 60,000 in the mid-2000s.^[4] The paper's online version was the 48ht most visited website for 2010 in the MENA region.^[20]

Incidents

The website of Tishreen was hacked by unknown groups in late April 2011.^[21] In December 2012, Naji Assaad, a journalist for the daily, was assassinated in Damascus allegedly by opposition forces who have been fighting against the Assad government since 2011.^[22]