11 Facts About Gulf News

Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Gulf News was first launched in tabloid format on 30 September 1978 by UAE businessman Abdul Wahab Galadari; its offices were located on the Airport Road, Dubai.

Under new ownership, Gulf News was relaunched on 10 December 1985 and was free to the public.

Regular op-ed contributors to Gulf News include: Uri Avnery, Kuldip Nayar, Faisal Alkasim, Joseph A Kechichian, Sami Moubayed, Marwan Al Kabalan, Rakesh Mani, Linda S Heard, Stuart Reigeluth and Wael Al Sayegh.

Gulf News moved to its present headquarters on Sheikh Zayed Road in April 2000.

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Gulf News changed its format to Berliner on 1 June 2012, being the first Berliner-format daily published in the Arab countries.

Gulf News was the first newspaper in the region to promote the arts, culture, music and sport through sponsorship of events.

Online edition of Gulf News was reported by Forbes Middle East in 2010 to be the most-read among the English-language online newspapers in the Middle East and North Africa region as well as in the UAE.

In January 2009, Gulf News ran a column by Mohammad Abdullah Al Mutawa that claimed the Holocaust was a lie.

Javed Jalil Khattak, Consulate General of Pakistan in Dubai, in an open letter to Gulf News termed the editorial as "an orchestrated attempt to damage and defame the historic fraternal relations between Pakistan and the UAE", while the editorial drew an angry reaction from the Pakistani expat community in the UAE.

On 10 July 2017, Francis Matthew, former Editor and then Editor-at-Large at Gulf News, was charged with the murder of his wife allegedly with a hammer blow to her head, over finances.