| Al-Madina المدينة | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Format: | Tabloid |
| Foundation: | 2004 |
| Founder: | Kamil Silbak |
| Owners: | Rana Asali |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Circulation: | 27,000 |
| Headquarters: | Haifa, Israel |
| Website: | www.almadina.co.il |
| Publishing Country: | Israel |
Al-Madina (Arabic: المدينة, meaning The City) is an Arabic local newspaper, printed weekly in tabloid format, published and distributed for free in Israel.
Al-Madina appears in two editions. One edition is published in Haifa and distributed in the north of Israel in 15,000 copies since 2004. Its editor-in-chief is Firas Khatib.[1] Until 2006, the editor-in-chief was Ala Hlehel, an Arab-Israeli writer and two-time winner of the[2] A. M. Qattan Foundation Literature Awards. The otheredition is published in Tel Aviv, with 12,000 copies distributed throughout central Israel since 2006. The editor-in-chief is Ghaleb Kiwan, who is also a news reporter for Arabic-language broadcasts on the Israeli cable provider HOT.[3]
In addition to international, national and local news coverage, the paper publishes opinion pieces and articles on health, sports, arts and culture.