al Mada

{{Short description|Baghdad daily newspaper}}

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|type = Daily newspaper

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|foundation = 5 August 2003

|publisher = Al-Mada Foundation for Media, Culture and Arts

|owners =

|founder = Fakhri Karim

|editor = Fakhri Karim

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|political = Left-wing politics
Nonsectarianism
Secularism

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|headquarters = Baghdad, Iraq

|language = Arabic

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|website = [http://www.almadapaper.net/ar/ www.almadapaper.net]

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Al Mada ({{langx|ar|المدى}} al-Madā) is a daily Arabic newspaper published in Baghdad, Iraq.{{cite web|title=Media landscape|url=http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/media-landscape/media-landscape-5|work=Menassat|accessdate=3 July 2015|archive-date=18 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618214501/http://www.menassat.com/?q=en%2Fmedia-landscape%2Fmedia-landscape-5|url-status=dead}} The founder of the daily which was first published on 5 August 2003 is Fakhri Karim, an Iraqi former communist.[http://www.almadapaper.net/ar/page/4/%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%AD%D9%86 Al Mada]{{cite book|author=Ali A. Allawi|title=The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cwc3_TTqYhsC&pg=PA153|date=1 October 2008|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-13537-4|page=153}} The publisher is Al-Mada Foundation for Media, Culture and Arts.{{cite web|title=Report on World Press Freedom Day Iraq|work=Unesco|accessdate=3 July 2015|date=3 May 2007

|url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/24838/11829510131WPFD_Iraq_3may2007_final_report.pdf/WPFD%2BIraq%2B3may2007%2Bfinal%2Breport.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704171326/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/24838/11829510131WPFD_Iraq_3may2007_final_report.pdf/WPFD%2BIraq%2B3may2007%2Bfinal%2Breport.pdf|archive-date=4 July 2015|url-status=dead}} The paper has an independent. left-leaning and secularist political stance.