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L-r; Samir Sobhi, Assem El-Kersh and Galal Nassar
photos: Nader Habib
The seven-year itch
After seven years with the paper -- one year longer than he was planning on, as he wryly said on the occasion -- Al-Ahram Weekly's third editor-in-chief (...)
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Change the odds
Not every defeat, in love or in politics, is unfair. Sometimes we need to face up to our failures, move on and do better next time, writes Assem El-Kersh
In love and war, in business and politics, defeat is a cruel (...)
Starting with a euphoric bang, 2011 ends with a whimper: Assem El-Kersh assesses the whys and hows in a year of revolution
A year that started at near boiling point could only end with ferocious bubbling: a mini-war right in the middle of Cairo, (...)
Twelve questions for 2012: Assem El-Kersh quizzes out a cross-section of politicians and commentators about the future of the revolution
Ezzeddine Shoukri
I fundamentally disagree with the statement that it was a year of lost opportunities; 2011 was (...)
The showdown over the future of the country is far from over. Assem El-Kersh discusses the prospects and implications
The revolutionary labour now continuing for more than two weeks drove out millions-strong throngs to the streets to call for an end (...)
Assem El-Kersh reports on an open exchange of views on the political future
During a meeting that lasted over two hours on Tuesday with a delegation of influential Egyptian figures, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, chairman of the Higher Council of (...)
The future will not wait and no one can stop its coming. It brings along the opportunities it offers, writes Assem El-Kersh*
"The future comes apace." -- William Shakespeare
2010 will begin in a flash. Take a deep breath, close your eyes and ask (...)
Assem El-Kersh asks the celebrated screenwriter Wahid Hamid what he expects of the next 10 years
The author of the political film hit Terrorism and Kebab, perhaps Egypt's most successful screenwriter, is hard-pressed to furnish a script for the next (...)
Veteran journalist speaks to Assem El-kersh and Shaden Shehab about the challenges facing the press and the present ills of journalism
, born on 1 November 1932, started his career as a reporter with Akhbar Al-Yom . He subsequently moved to Al-Ahram (...)
As a new era dawns, Assem El-Kersh is intent on repeating the mistakes of a long line of forecasters
Not to commit to fortune telling is among the countless lessons taught by the profession of journalism, perhaps the most troublesome of all. As a (...)
Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development tells Assem El-Kersh and Dena Rashed he does not have a magic wand to end the ever lasting crisis of housing
is not your average minister, and Egypt is not your average country, and neither is its (...)
Where the new year is concerned, Assem El-Kersh tells us all we could know
For man was created weak -- Quran
From start to finish, the story of 2010 was punctuated by sound and echo: from happy days to the boom of the vuvuzela, which never stopped (...)
Assem El-Kersh asks veteran analyst Abdel-Moneim Said what the new year could mean for Egypt, the region and the world
What is your perspective on the new year? How hopeful are you?
At the start of a new year the world is clearly in a mood of calm. (...)
Five questions posed to five of Egypt's prominent intellectuals. Their answers to Al-Ahram Weekly's Editor-in-Chief Assem El-Kersh provide telling insights into what they believe is next for Egypt and the region
How optimistic are you?
Hossam (...)
When the dust of the electoral race settles, there will probably be no seismic changes on the political landscape: five commentators provide Assem El-Kersh with an early reading of the results
What will the elections change?
Salama Ahmed Salama
I (...)
With parliamentary and presidential elections drawing ever closer the debate over the future of Egypt's political system, allegations that the office of president is about to be bequeathed, and criticisms of the government's performance are all (...)
Accompanying Investment on his week-long visit to Beijing, Assem El-Kersh finds out whether China will be Egypt's convoy back to Africa following a period of economic disengagement
What did you hope to accomplish by your visit to China?
I came to (...)
Assem El-Kersh considers what will be going through people's minds in the first minute after Obama's address: the outcome is far more important than the event
To reduce the probability of shock, it is wise to lower the level of expectations (...)
Obama's first 100 days were a breeze, writes Assem El-Kersh. But the new US president is in for a real test
At midnight last night, Washington DC time, reached his 100th day at the White House -- completing his first lap. Is it any surprise that the (...)
The contrast between the Arab Summit in Doha and the G20 and NATO meetings in Europe could not have been more dispiriting, writes Assem El-Kersh
Most perplexing and dismaying about the Arab summit in Doha was the fact that inter-Arab acrimony has (...)
At last week's Euromoney conference, Egypt presented its case as a safe and lucrative haven for investment even during a bizarre global crisis, Assem El-Kersh reports from London
The upbeat introductory remarks by Richard Ensor, the managing (...)
The simple attempt to put people before politics, for a change, by the conference for the reconstruction of Gaza may prove to be too ambitious, as Assem El-Kersh discovers in Sharm El-Sheikh
The easy part may be over now that international donors (...)
If you think part two will be an improvement, think again. Israel's new prime minister has learned nothing from his decade out of power, writes Assem El-Kersh
Just what we needed! We thought he was gone for good but no, out from the shadows Benyamin (...)
Can Israel be prevented from destroying anything that is rebuilt in Gaza? Assem El-Kersh speaks with European Commissioner for External Relations about the implications of the Sharm El-Sheikh donors conference
What message has the Sharm El-Sheikh (...)
The next carnage in Gaza may just be around the corner unless the Arabs understand why the world is always letting them down, writes Assem El-Kersh
Have we forgotten Gaza in such a short space of time? That is, except for some residual anger and (...)