PA daily under “intimate patronage” of Abbas and is “national media”
Headline: “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida opens a shining page in its history and will remain the newspaper of the homeland”
“On the eve of the celebration of its 22nd anniversary, the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida family and its board of directors celebrated the opening of its main headquarters in the city of El-Bireh, following its [the headquarters’] renovation. The event was attended by numerous high-ranking officials and journalists, the most prominent of whom were Secretary-General of the President [Abbas'] office Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, Chairman of the Presidential Office Hussein Al-A'araj, District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh Laila Ghannam, District Governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley Majed al-Fityani, Chairman of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation Board of Trustees who is in charge of the official media Riyad Al-Hassan, Head of the [Palestinian] National Fund Ramzi Khouri, and Head of the Al-Hayat Press, Printing and Publishing House and Political Advisor for President Mahmoud Abbas Nimer Hammad…
Hammad said that President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to take Al-Hayat Al-Jadida under his wing as part of the [PA] official media resulted in the consolidation of a newspaper that provides more room for the freedom of opinion, and expressed his hope that the newspaper would also excel in the special coverage of specific areas of life, such as economy, youth, and universities.
Editor-in-Chief Mahmoud Abu Al-Hija… added: ‘We hope to add a new, shining page to the history of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, especially since we enjoy the intimate patronage of President Mahmoud Abbas, and through the Board of Directors headed by Nimer Hammad, the political advisor [to Mahmoud Abbas] who diligently follows the work of the newspaper despite his [other] occupations.’ Abu Al-Hija noted that President Mahmoud Abbas’ patronage of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida is not the patronage of an official newspaper but of the national media, so that it will be a media that expresses the truthfulness of the political message and the Palestinian collective consciousness, and serve the truth, especially through critical and responsible texts.”
“On the eve of the celebration of its 22nd anniversary, the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida family and its board of directors celebrated the opening of its main headquarters in the city of El-Bireh, following its [the headquarters’] renovation. The event was attended by numerous high-ranking officials and journalists, the most prominent of whom were Secretary-General of the President [Abbas'] office Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, Chairman of the Presidential Office Hussein Al-A'araj, District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh Laila Ghannam, District Governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley Majed al-Fityani, Chairman of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation Board of Trustees who is in charge of the official media Riyad Al-Hassan, Head of the [Palestinian] National Fund Ramzi Khouri, and Head of the Al-Hayat Press, Printing and Publishing House and Political Advisor for President Mahmoud Abbas Nimer Hammad…
Hammad said that President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to take Al-Hayat Al-Jadida under his wing as part of the [PA] official media resulted in the consolidation of a newspaper that provides more room for the freedom of opinion, and expressed his hope that the newspaper would also excel in the special coverage of specific areas of life, such as economy, youth, and universities.
Editor-in-Chief Mahmoud Abu Al-Hija… added: ‘We hope to add a new, shining page to the history of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, especially since we enjoy the intimate patronage of President Mahmoud Abbas, and through the Board of Directors headed by Nimer Hammad, the political advisor [to Mahmoud Abbas] who diligently follows the work of the newspaper despite his [other] occupations.’ Abu Al-Hija noted that President Mahmoud Abbas’ patronage of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida is not the patronage of an official newspaper but of the national media, so that it will be a media that expresses the truthfulness of the political message and the Palestinian collective consciousness, and serve the truth, especially through critical and responsible texts.”