The American University in Cairo
Wed 30, 7-8pm: “Corporate Activism: When Companies Take a Public Stand on Political Issues” webinar will discuss the fact that in the last few years, thousands of companies or their CEOs have taken a public stand on (...)
The fourth Thoth Festival opened on 26 October at New Hermopolis, a non-profit development founded by Mervat Abdel-Nasser in the town of Tuna Al-Gebel, the site of the necropolis of Khmun (aka Hermopolis Magna).
This was the western part of the (...)
The fourth Thoth Festival opened on 26 October at New Hermopolis, a non-profit development founded by Mervat Abdel-Nasser in the town of Tuna Al-Gebel, the site of the necropolis of Khmun (aka Hermopolis Magna). This was the western part of the (...)
When the General Authority for Museums announced earlier this month that the iconic Abdeen Palace would be finally open for visits, interest was high at first, with over 1,000 people saying online that they would go. After all, the palace has never (...)
Employing paintings, actors and a violin, a simple setting enriched with history and meaning, director Sabry Zekry presents a story of past and present in 'In Once Upon a Time, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'
Like a fairytale, we are carried into the (...)
Theater performance "'Once Upon a Time Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,' directed by multidisciplinary Iranian-Egyptian artist Sabry Zekry, will be performed in cultural venues across Egypt this month
It's an Iranian story, but many would agree that (...)
The Egyptians believed that the various ramifications of the sun god — Horus, the rising sun; Ra and Ra-Harakhte, the full sun; and Osiris, the setting sun — governed their lives and the lives of all living animals and plants. But how did they (...)
In an effort to highlight the importance of female leadership across the nation, Egyptians joined women around the world in the Vital Voices Global Mentorship Walk on Saturday, 17 November.
The walk event began in 2008 to bring mentors and mentees (...)
This is not a religious article depicting biblical or Islamic facts…but a recent history of the Nubians, whose lands were inundated not by natural forces, but the human hand, for the sake of ‘progress'.
This first happened in Nubia in 1933, when the (...)
Dig days:
King Tut was the son of Akhenaten
By Zahi Hawwas
I had an exceptional adventure recently. It was at a site in Middle Egypt known as Al-Ashmunein, known in Greek as Hermopolis after the Greek god Hermes, and known to the ancient Egyptians (...)
Last month, Polish archaeologists celebrated an excavation tradition going back to Kazimierz Michalowski at Edfu in 1937, says Nevine El-Aref
Zbigniew E Szafrañski describes Michalowski's work as the first milestone on the Polish road to the (...)
Muhammad Ali (1805-2005) is a special series published fortnightly by Al-Ahram Weekly in anticipation of the international symposium commemorating the bicentennial of Muhammad Ali Pasha's acendancy to power, to be held in Egypt on 10 November. (...)
Minya might not be the most glamorous of travel destinations but after a closer look Pierre Loza found that it helped put Egyptian rural life past and present in perspective
Riding on the train from the Giza train station to Minya, the scenery is (...)
A mosaic floor with birds and a foliage design and a wooden ibis statuette are two of this week's main discoveries. Nevine El-Aref reports on the findings
Egypt is overwhelmed with monuments from the past -- largely owing to the arid desert (...)
For 50 years, scholarship has tended to play down the interrelations between Ancient Egyptian culture and the religion of the biblical Hebrews. Jill Kamil argues it is time to re-open investigations
Egypt is indisputably a part of the Biblical (...)
Egyptians believe God chose their country as a haven for the infant Jesus Christ when he was fleeing the soldiers of Herod, king of Israel. Jenny Jobbins traces the footsteps of the Holy Family
Why did God tell Joseph the Carpenter to take his (...)
By Fatemah Farag
Clockwise from top: a classic image of Minya in earlier days (photo: Al-Ahram archives);
When I told people I was off to Minya for the weekend, heads were shaken in disbelief. For the last decade, names like Dayrout, Samalout, (...)
An escape into Egypt
By Samir Naoum
I started in northern Sinai at Al-Farama because this was the site of ancient Pelusiam where the most easterly branch of the Nile flowed into the sea. It is situated about 20 kilometres east of Port Said and was (...)
