Al-Qabas (English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

: "The Firebrand") is a daily Kuwaiti newspaper published by Dār al-Qabas lil-ṣaḥāfah wa al-ṭibāʿah wa al-nashr. The paper's editor, Mohammed Al-Sager

Mohammed Al-Sager

Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager is an award-winning journalist, former member of the National Assembly of Kuwait, and former chairman of the Arab Parliament.-Background:...

, is a winner of the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists

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 "for courageous reporting on political and human rights issues in the face of government threats of censorship and prosecution".

The Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali worked for the paper in the 1980s.