Overview
Al Raya is an Arab daily newspaper in Qatar, offering the latest information in the history. and was issued in 10 | 5 | 1979 , The newspaper was  weekly at the outset and turned into a daily in 1980. Since that date, Al Raya did not disappointed its readers in terms of new content and artistic output method, it has not given up its role and responsibilities that reflect the theme of Qatar to the Arabs and the Arabs to the world and the formation of a conviction and awareness among Qatari street national construction and community development issues. Editor in chief Saleh Al-Kuwari Afassan Issued by Gulf company for printing and publishing (GPCC). The current Editor-in-Chief is Saleh Al-Kuwari Afassan, Managing editor is Sadiq Mohammed Hussein Amari, and the general manager of the newspaper is Mohammed Allam Ali Abdullah. 

History
Al Raya was launched by Gulf company for printing and publishing as a weekly newspaper on 10 December 1979. The company which was founded by Ali bin Jaber Al Thani also owns Gulf Times, an English language daily. Based in Doha, Al Raya is the second Arabic newspaper published in Qatar. On 27 January 1980 Al Raya was relaunched as a daily newspaper. In 1996 a corpus was created which included 187 articles published in Al Raya. On 27 April 2012 the paper launched the mapping mangroves project. In the early 1990s Al Raya had a circulation of 10,000 copies and was distributed in Saudi Arabia and Egypt in addition to its native Qatar. Until 1995 when the other Arabic daily, Al Watan, was launched the paper enjoyed higher levels of circulation, but then lost its one-third of circulation. In 2000 Al Raya was the second best selling newspaper in Qatar with a circulation of 18,000 copies. The estimated circulation of the paper in 2003 was 8,000 copies. Al Raya's circulation increased to 18,000 copies in 2008. The online version of the paper was the 47th most visited website for 2010 in the MENA region. Yousef Kassim Darwish is the first editor-in-chief of the daily and its sister newspaper, Gulf Times. In the initial period many leading Arab journalists wrote for the daily. As of 2012 Saleh Al Kawari was the editor-in-chief and Sadiq Mohammad Al Amari was the editor of the daily. Saleh bin Afssan Al Kuwari is the current editor-in-chief of the daily.