Naharnet

Naharnet Naharnet is the first independent Lebanese Digital Media providing real-time news and information

History

Naharnet was founded in 1998 and launched in September 2000 as the first multilingual Lebanese portal still active today. Naharnet provides users worldwide with a wide array of services spanning from news coverage, forums, mobile services, chat, and email amongst others. Over the years, Naharnet has built a considerable audience, attracting millions of Lebanese users worldwide from over 2

20 countries. In 2010, Naharnet started revamping its strategy and technology to focus on being a Digital News hub for Lebanese worldwide. The aging technology behind Naharnet was replaced on May 25, 2011 by a brand new Content Management System developed in house, setting the grounds to build and provide next generation content and services to its global audience. Newsdesk

Naharnet’s newsdesk is staffed with a multilingual team of journalists providing users with up to the minute news, seven days a week. The team of journalists behind Naharnet’s newsdesk is balanced to represent the social fabric of the Lebanese society and to provide objective and unbiased reporting. Editorial Policy

Naharnet is not affiliated to any political parties and runs independently of any other media organization. Naharnet is privately held and self-sustainable, making it the one of the rare independent media organizations in Lebanon free from external influences. Naharnet is commited to providing its users with objective news coverage. Naharnet’s Newsdesk focuses exclusively on factual news and refrains from publishing opinions and analysis. Naharnet’s news team gathers and monitors various sources of information including internal sources, news wires, TVs, radios, news sites and social media in order to produce accurate and verified reports. Statistics

Over 2 million unique visitors, mainly Lebanese, come to Naharnet annually from more than 220 countries.
1,200,000+ users have signed up on Naharnet over the past 10 years
810,000+ pages have been published in English and Arabic
1,000,000+ Comments have been published by users
Over 1,000,000,000 ad impressions were served globally
300,000+ Tweets were published mentioning Naharnet.com on Twitter.com
There is an average of 240 simultaneous users on Naharnet.com. Naharnet has recorded peak usages of over 1,000 simultaneous users. Over 60% of users visit Naharnet.com at least once per month
Over 40% of users visit Naharnet.com at least once per week. Over 20% of of users visit Naharnet.com over 200 times per year



Development team

The technology behind Naharnet was developed in-house and is currently in beta stage. Our teams of developers release new features, updates and fixes improving the platform and gathering feedback on a daily basis. Technology

The new Naharnet platform is the first Lebanese site built using Ruby on Rails. Naharnet.com is also the first Lebanese site hosted on Amazon’s Cloud and is built to scale automatically following traffic patterns. The platform was completely built in-house as one of the world’s first Semantic Content Management System. Innovation is at the heart of our development efforts and all features were developed to tackle the specificities of the Arab Web and Arab Users.

25/01/2025

The United Arab Emirates had announced that it reopened its embassy in Lebanon, state media reported, years after it was shut down in solidarity with Saudi Arabia. The Emirati embassy in Beirut "has officially resumed diplomatic...

25/01/2025

The Trump administration said it wants to give Israel a little more time to pull its troops out of Lebanon, just two days before a withdrawal deadline under a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. “A short, temporary ceasefire extension is urgently...

25/01/2025

The Lebanese Army on Saturday said it has been unable to deploy its forces throughout southern Lebanon as laid out in a ceasefire agreement that halted the Israel-Hezbollah war because of Israel’s “procrastination in withdrawal” from the...

24/01/2025

President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam are “not opposed to giving the finance portfolio to the Shiite community, but not to the Shiite Duo,” MTV reported on Friday. Moreover, MTV said that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince...

24/01/2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday confirmed that Israel will keep its army in south Lebanon beyond the 60-day deadline mentioned in the ceasefire agreement, accusing Lebanon of not fully implementing its part of the...

24/01/2025

The Israeli army is preparing to face “symbolic gunfire” by Hezbollah toward the occupied Shebaa Farms in response to the Israeli army’s decision to keep its forces in south Lebanon’s eastern sector past the Sunday deadline, Israeli media...

24/01/2025

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Abdullah al-Yahya began an official visit Friday to Lebanon, after the country elected a new president and appointed a PM-designate. “Our visit is for support, assistance and expressing our commitment to stand by...

24/01/2025

Emirates airline will resume flights to Beirut on February 1 after a four-month suspension triggered by conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a statement said on Friday. The Middle East's biggest airline will first offer a daily return flight...

24/01/2025

Israel may seek to delay pulling all of its troops out of southern Lebanon, which would violate the terms of a ceasefire it signed with the militant group Hezbollah. An Israeli government spokesperson said Thursday that Israel wants the...

24/01/2025

Residents returned Thursday to the town of Naqoura near the Lebanon-Israel border, which hosts the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force, after Israeli forces withdrew from the area. Long lines of cars, some waving Hezbollah flags, inched...

23/01/2025

Hezbollah said Thursday that it will be the responsibility of the Lebanese state to act and press the countries sponsoring the ceasefire agreement should Israel delay its military pullout from south Lebanon. “The 60-day deadline for the...

23/01/2025

President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam have identical viewpoints regarding the formation of “an extraordinary government” that is not based on a “distribution of quotas” among the political parties, informed political...

23/01/2025

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat landed in Beirut on Thursday to meet the country's new leadership in the first visit by a high-ranking official from the kingdom after more than a decade of strained ties. "The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the...

23/01/2025

A senior Shiite Duo official has said that Hezbollah and the Amal Movement have been “the bloc that has facilitated the PM-designate’s mission the most.” “Our matters our clear, there are no complications from our side, and the accusations...

23/01/2025

Former MP Yassine Jaber, who is close to Speaker Nabih Berri, is no longer proposed for the finance portfolio in the new government for “health reasons,” media reports said. The Shiite Duo “is still insisting on the finance portfolio and it...

23/01/2025

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that insisting on the finance portfolio for the Shiite community is not aimed at “tripartite or quadripartite power-sharing.” “It was approved at the Taif meetings, not only discussed, and that’s why I’m...

23/01/2025

Israel’s ambassador to the United States said Thursday the two countries are in talks about extending the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a deadline in the ceasefire approaches. Michael Herzog said in an interview with Israeli Army Radio...

22/01/2025

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Wednesday told visiting U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert that Israel is “committed” to the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon. "We are committed to moving forward with the...

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