جريدة الشرق الأوسط
Though the newspaper is owned by Faisal bin Salman, and is considered more pro-Saudi than rival "Al-Hayat", "Asharq Al-Awsat" has billed itself as the "leading international Arabic paper," as it was the first Arabic daily to use satellite transmission for simultaneous printing in a number of sites across the world. Media scholar Marc Lynch has called "Asharq al-Awsat" "the most conservative" of the major pan-Arab papers.