Al-Alam  Al-Alam ("The Flag" in English) is an arabophone Moroccan daily newspaper. "Al Alam" was founded in September 1946. The paper, based in Rabat, is the organ of the nationalist Istiqlal party. The party also publishes "L'Opinion". During the mid-1970s the paper was frequently banned by the Moroccan authorities together with its sister publication, "L'Opinion", and "Al Muharrir", another oppositional paper. The 2001 circulation of "Al Alam" was 100,000 copies, making it the second largest daily in the country. It was 18,000 copies in 2003.