Al Arabiya English is an English language service of the Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya News Channel.
Foundation and early days
Al-Arabiya English was launched in 2007.[1] The website carried wire news and selected translated articles from Al Arabiya's main Arabic language news site.
In November 2013, the site was relaunched with a new design that provided captioned and searchable news clips from the main Al Arabiya news channel.
Staffing
The Al Arabiya English website began under the same editorial management as the channel's Arabic website.[2]
In July 2012, Faisal J. Abbas, a Huffington Post blogger, Middle East correspondent and former media editor of London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Al Arabiya English Service. He held the role until 2016.