Al-Sharika Al-Alamiya lil Bath (Shaab) SAL
Al-Sharika Al-Alamiya lil Bath (Shaab) SAL owns the Sawt El Shaab radio station, which was founded by the Lebanese Communist Party in 1987. It obtained its license in 1996.
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Joint Stock Company (Société anonyme libanaise)
Business Sectors
Al-Sharika Al-Alamiya lil Bath (Shaab) SAL is operating in radio broadcasting.
Individual Owner
Sawt El Shaab is the official radio of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP). The legal structure of this company is a one-person trader (تاجر). Journalist and party member, Tanios Deaibes, is not the owner but the person in charge with regards to official contacts with the public administration. The license to broadcast is owned by Al-Sharika Al-Alamiya lil Bath (Shaab) SAL, which is co-owned by several Communist and leftist political, social and cultural figures in Lebanon - these include Ibrahim Jokhdar, Oussama Aref, Albert Mansour, Elias Bou Habib, Elias Khoury, Elias Fadel, Ahmad Fattouh, Hassan Khalil, Amin Kamourieh, Thaer Karam, Hanna Gharib, Habib Sadek, Ziad Rahbani, and Hassan Awada. The LCP was behind the establishment of New TV (Al-Jadeed) in the early 1990s until it first closed in 1997. Some prominent LCP members still own shares of Al-Jadeed. The LCP also owned Al-Akhbar newspaper's licence, as well as licenses for two currently suspended magazines, the weekly Al-Nidaa, and the monthly Al-Tareeq. Its legal structure is a Lebanese joint-stock company.
Other Radio Outlets
Sawt El Shaab
Other Online Outlets
https://sawtachaab.com/web/
General Information
Founding Year
1987
Affiliated Interests Founder
through four of its members: Adib Nehme, Ali Saab, Hanna Saleh, and Mamoun Abou Chakra
Employees
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Contact
Phone + 961 (1) 311 809
Website: www.sawtachaab.com
Address: NewTV & Sawt Al-Shaab building, Jabal Al-Arab street, Wata sector, Beirut
P.O.Box 14-5425
Tax/ ID Number
Commercial Registry number: 52244 (Beirut)
Financial Information
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Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
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Advertising (in % of total funding)
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Management
Executive Board
Semaan Youssef Bou Moussa
Sami Mansour Saouma
Shaker Neamtallah Khamis
Further Information
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2024 and 2021 data on shareholder fractions, company information, revenue, and management are acquired by the collaborative investigative efforts of SEEDS for Legal Initiatives and the Samir Kassir Foundation.
