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Abdel Bari Atwan

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “editor-in chief of the london -based pan-arab newspaper al-quds al-arabi”. Today it says “palestinian-born british journalist and the editor-in-chief of rai al-youm”.
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Abdel Bari Atwan ( Arabic : عبد الباري عطوان ʿAbd al-Bārī ʿAṭwān , Levantine pronunciation: [ˈʕabd elˈbaːɾi ʕɑtˤˈwaːn] ; born 17 February 1950) is an Egyptian-born British journalist and the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm , an Arab world digital news and opinion website. Previously he was the editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi from the founding of the paper in 1989 until July 2013.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “editor-in chief of the london -based pan-arab newspaper al-quds al-arabi”. Today it says “palestinian-born british journalist and the editor-in-chief of rai al-youm”. Read the current article and compare.
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editor-in chief of the london -based pan-arab newspaper al-quds al-arabi

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palestinian-born british journalist and the editor-in-chief of rai al-youm

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