[3][4] The company also owned several daily, weekly and monthly publications, including Assayad magazine.

[13] The paper was one of the Lebanese publications in the early 1960s which called for the end of the Palestinian Amin al-Husseini's activities.

[15][16] However, this attitude changed after Ghassan Kanafani, the spokesperson of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), joined the paper.

[1] The editor-in-chief of Al Anwar was Rafiq Khoury and its managing editor was Fouad Daaboul.

[25] At the very beginning of the civil war Al Anwar published statistical surveys of casualties.

[13] One of the major contributors of Al Anwar was former Saudi oil minister Abdullah Tariki who was living in Beirut after his removal from office.

He published an open letter to the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Al Anwar on 19 May 1969.

[29] Following the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the daily published three articles from 16 to 18 February 2005 the first two of which were written by editor-in-chief, Khoury.

[30] The last one was a commentary titled "The mentality of the paupers and a regime in coma" written by Rauf Shahuri.

[32] It was distributed in other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE[33] where it had highest circulation figures during the early 1970s.

[11] In a 2006 study carried out by Ipsos, it was found that Al Anwar had lower circulation in capital Beirut than other regions.