'The Flag') is an Arabophone Moroccan daily newspaper.
[1] Al Alam was founded in September 1946.
[1][2] The paper, based in Rabat,[3] is the organ of the nationalist Istiqlal party.
[4] During the mid-1970s, the paper was frequently banned by the Moroccan authorities together with its sister publication, L'Opinion, and Al Muharrir, another opposition paper.
[7] The 2001 circulation of Al Alam was 100,000 copies, making it the second largest daily in the country.