Okaz

Crosswire lists Okaz as Center within Saudi Arabia's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.

Read Okaz beside another title from Saudi Arabia and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Saudi Arabia covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are Okaz's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because Okaz is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Saudi Arabia either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Okaz is one of 5 outlets tracked in Saudi Arabia, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being Arab News and Saudi Gazette. By outlets tracked, Saudi Arabia ranks 11th of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 49 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Okaz outside Saudi Arabia, starting with The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, are Gulf Daily News (Bahrain), Times of Oman (Oman), Aden Al-Ghad (Yemen) and Le Matin (Morocco). Opening one of them beside Okaz is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.