This week Al-Ahram Weekly celebrates its 30th anniversary amid heated domestic and world events. The year of the Weekly's launch was not so very different, for on 28 February 1991, when the first issue of the paper hit the newsstands, the (...)
Some people used to believe, or still believe, that press photographs are just decoration. The same thing applies to the caricatures and cartoons that often appear in newspapers, with these being seen by some as simply ornamental.
But, of course, (...)
On 28 February 1991 at the bottom of the daily Al-Ahram's front page there was a column-and-a-half-width advertisement reading “Al-Ahram Weekly today”.
This day, marking the first issue of Al-Ahram Weekly, will always be a very special day. Of all (...)
Led by the US and Russia, the world has been searching for humanity's future. Efforts to explore outer space have been made since the 1960s when the first astronauts landed on the moon. There are now plans to send humans to Mars and explore other (...)
Constructive self-criticism is an art, but criticism of others can be much more artistic. Self-criticism involves diving deep into one's personal traits that include behaviour, beliefs and ideas in order to define the weaker aspects of an (...)
Anyone who wants to know the future should start by reading history.
I remember that in 1958, the year I started my journalistic career at Al-Ahram, I was assigned with a group of junior reporters to do a feature story on the 1952 Cairo fire. Until (...)
Egypt is the “capital of the world,” in the words of the late Egyptian geographer Gamal Hamdan.
So, it is not strange for a country like Egypt to stage an enlightenment revolution. Going hand in hand with its efforts to erect a new capital city, (...)
Throughout Egypt's history, there has always been a very special relationship linking Egyptians and cafés.
Cafés have long been considered a main source of news, stories, songs and folkloric music or mawwal. In Cairo, Alexandria and other parts of (...)
Egypt's solar park in Aswan has recently won a best project award given by the World Bank Group. This is the first time that Egypt has received the award, and it reflects the bank's trust in the government's current economic reform programme.
The (...)
Egypt's solar park in Aswan has recently won a best project award given by the World Bank Group. This is the first time that Egypt has received the award, and it reflects the bank's trust in the government's current economic reform programme.
The (...)
Ancient Egyptian workers used to utter a shout when carrying building materials and ascending scaffolding from one floor to the next in major construction projects. Today, their modern descendants do something similar as they build the country's New (...)
In Sinai, one of the holiest places in Egypt, a war is now being waged on two main fronts: to combat terrorism and to develop the Peninsula. Sinai's holy character stems from its religious history, since the Prophet Abraham crossed it and so did the (...)
My relationship with the 1919 Revolution is somewhat strange. The 7 March, marking its anniversary, also happens to be my birthday. On that day 28 years before my birth, Egypt's historic leader Saad Zaghloul and his comrades were sent into (...)
My relationship with the 1919 Revolution is somewhat strange. The 7 March, marking its anniversary, also happens to be my birthday. On that day 28 years before my birth, Egypt's historic leader Saad Zaghloul and his comrades were sent into (...)
On Thursday, 28 February 1991, the first issue of Al-Ahram Weekly hit the newsstands as a liberal English-language national newspaper published every week by Al-Ahram.
It was a coincidence that the launch of the Weekly took place on the same day (...)
Political geography, or geopolitics, the environment and population growth are the main factors which will define the nature of the Earth within the coming 50 years.
Political geography is a give and take relationship between politics and (...)
Political geography, or geopolitics, the environment and population growth are the main factors which will define the nature of the Earth within the coming 50 years.
Political geography is a give and take relationship between politics and geography. (...)
The Seven Pillars of Egyptian Identity, a book by the late Coptic intellectual Milad Hanna, will be a main reference at the World Youth Forum held in Sharm El-Sheikh from 3 to 6 November.
The organisers want to study the main characteristics of (...)
The Seven Pillars of Egyptian Identity, a book by the late Coptic intellectual Milad Hanna, will be a main reference at the World Youth Forum held in Sharm El-Sheikh from 3 to 6 November.
The organisers want to study the main characteristics of (...)
The press has a long story to tell and is responsible for shaping public opinion, which is a touchstone of democracy. The ancient Egyptians published on papyrus and water hyacinth leaves, as recorded on a papyrus at the Louvre Museum in Paris that (...)
Changes to the education system are the first step to reforming the human mind in the new Egypt and the new Middle East. This is simply to sum up the answer to the question of who the new citizen is and how he can be created.
In the past, ideas in (...)
Changes to the education system are the first step to reforming the human mind in the new Egypt and the new Middle East. This is simply to sum up the answer to the question of who the new citizen is and how he can be created.
In the past, ideas in (...)
Egypt has witnessed periods of change throughout its history, with landmark events transforming Egyptian political thought.
In the aftermath of the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, for example, Egypt underwent a severe societal (...)
Egypt has witnessed periods of change throughout its history, with landmark events transforming Egyptian political thought.
In the aftermath of the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, for example, Egypt underwent a severe societal (...)
Over 40 years ago, the Egyptian Coptic Bishop Agerygorous gave an interview in which he spoke about the research that the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo was conducting.
The specific topic he touched upon was the connections that the Egyptian (...)