Al-Ahram Weekly

Point-blank: Expanding Gaza

Mohamed Salmawy

How can such a vast mass of debris be dealt with? This is not just building materials shattered and pulverised during ...

On development and denial 

Mahmoud Mohieldin

Two annual summits are about to convene. It would be an overstatement to say they are eagerly awaited – except, ...

All eyes on the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement

Amr Hamzawy

The ceasefire agreement reached in Sharm El-Sheikh in October represents a pivotal moment in the Israeli-Palestinian ...

Point-blank: Trufanov

Mohamed Salmawy

The former, frail and haggard; the latter, healthy and in good spirits. Some Western mainstream media did focus on some ...

What now

Abdel-Moneim Said

The political gathering dispersed on the evening of Monday, 13 October 2025. It didn’t follow Middle Eastern time, ...

The test of a great generation

Abdel-Moneim Said

There is more than one way to write history. It can be portrayed, for example, as a conflict between social classes or, ...

The Egypt-US strategic partnership: A vision for shared prosperity

Sameh Aboul-Enein

In an era marked by geopolitical upheaval and global realignments, the strategic relationship between Egypt and the United ...

Egypt’s calculated diplomacy and the world’s responsibility

Ezzat Ibrahim

When the bombing of Gaza finally stopped on 13 October, the silence carried the weight of months of deliberate work by ...

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Editorial: Welcoming peace

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Editorial: Cautious hopes for Palestine

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

But there remain many challenges ahead, including the fear that the current extremist government of Israeli Prime Minister ...

Trump at the UN

Abdel-Moneim Said

US President Donald Trump has plenty of reasons to dislike the UN. For one, it is located in New York, where his family ...

Point-blank: US deception

Mohamed Salmawy

Washington comes up with some ceasefire proposals and urges the Palestinians to accept them – or, more accurately, ...

Doha and Tel Aviv

Abdel-Moneim Said

Israel’s treacherous attack on Qatar, targeting the Hamas leadership, was followed by the usual reactions at critical ...

Israel’s collapsing moral legitimacy

Amr Helmy

Israel today stands at a perilous historical crossroads. The gravity of its situation is not confined to the ongoing ...

Going for gold?

Mahmoud Mohieldin

With the release of the most recent US labour market report, revealing employment levels that can be described as disappointing, ...

Cannes comes in May

May is the sweet month that pays homage to nature and man alike. Trees, fields, gardens, and floral petals capture the ...

Anatomy of love

The sweet smell of flowers, the fields of green grass, the long daylight hours give us a new lease on life. Every little ...

Fasting is healing

Long before established religions, pre-historic man, as well as animals, instinctively refrained from eating when sick, ...

The flavours of Ramadan

Muslims not only refrain from food and drink during the daylight hours, but ideally refrain from the sins of the flesh, ...

‘If winter comes’

Feeling low in winter? The tired brain prefers to focus on winter’s woes and its body’s physical needs, rather ...

It should be spring

It is that mysteriously, magical, many-splendoured thing called love, bewitching and bewildering all mankind. Where ...

Hollywood loves Wicked

“The most wonderful time of the year” may have been ended, but in Hollywood it is just beginning. The holiday ...

What’s in our stars?

With joy in the air we cautiously bask in the light of hope. Our new year started with a bang, chasing out the woes of ...

The bells are ringing

From tower tops, cathedrals, domes and palaces, the rich peals of silver bells will ring in a merry Christmas and a happy ...

Our season of joy

This many splendored season of year’s end is hard to resist. Despite the apathy and lethargy that sucked out our ...

If winter is here

With December here and the new year is near, what are the visions of a better future? Always in pursuit of the unknown, innumerable ...

Only a paper moon

Is there any chance Benjamin Netanyahu and company will be arrested by the International Criminal Court? Not in a million, ...

Illusions of equality

“All men are created equal,” they cried as they etched in stone the greatest constitution of the “greatest ...

The drink that changed the world

If we missed celebrating its international day, 1 October, it is time to make amends. We turn to Africa, “the cradle ...

Special

Samir Sobhi (1937-2025): Putting it all together

I never imagined that one day Hani Mustafa, the head of the Layout Department at Al-Ahram Weekly, would call me to request an obituary about Samir Sobhi, one of the founding pillars of the newspaper and the founding head of the Layout Department.

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Samir Sobhi (1937-2025): Putting it all together

Exhibitions

​Nehad Saeed’s exhibition at UBUNTU gallery is not to be missed

Aisha Fahmy Palace 1 Aziz Abaza St, Zamalek, Tel 02 2735 8211 The Complex of Arts “Egypt’s Voice” ...

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​Nehad Saeed’s exhibition at UBUNTU gallery is not to be missed

Lectures

​Don’t miss the signing event for the novel The Citadel Massacre with the author Ibrahim Eissa

American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus,Room 2175, Tel 02 2615 2694 Moataz Al Alfi Hall Sun 16, 9:30am ...

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​Don’t miss the signing event for the novel The Citadel Massacre with the author Ibrahim Eissa

Don’t miss Manar Hazaa’s storytelling workshops at Diwan Bookstore

American University in Cairo AUC New Cairo Campus Thurs 31, 9am – 5pm: The 6th African Philanthropy Conference ...

Music and dance

Religious chanter Mahmoud El-Tohamy to give a concert at El Sawy Culturewheel

Arab Music Institute 22 Ramsis St, Tel 02 2574 3373 Fri 14, 8.30pm: A singing recital by Ibrahim Youssry. Beit ...

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Religious chanter Mahmoud El-Tohamy to give a concert at El Sawy Culturewheel