Spain's Arab community will have access by the end of October to Andalus Press, the first Arab-language weekly in the country, La Verdad reported Tuesday.

The newspaper will be published by Andalus Media, a news agency specialized in the Spanish-Arab coverage, "to satisfy the information needs" of the Arab-speaking residents, said publisher Said Ida Hassan.

The agency launched in February an online publication that covers topics of interest of this community, La Voz de Barcelona informed. However, Hassan explained he decided to create a weekly after a study conducted by the agency showed 94 percent of the Arabs living in Spain would prefer to read a newspaper in their language and that 73 percent liked to received their news on a print format.

The Andalus Press will have an initial circulation of 50,000 copies and will be distributed every Friday in the mosques located in Madrid and the autonomous communities of Catalunya, Valencia and Andalucia, Comunicar.info detailed.