Many businessmen and businesswomen are seeking to become MPs in this month’s legislative elections
Recent economic developments have been assuaging concerns about a further IMF review and the country’s debt burden.
Israel is continuing to violate the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon and is conditioning its pullout on the disarmament of Hizbullah.
How can such a vast mass of debris be dealt with? This is not just building materials shattered and pulverised during ...
Two annual summits are about to convene. It would be an overstatement to say they are eagerly awaited – except, ...
The ceasefire agreement reached in Sharm El-Sheikh in October represents a pivotal moment in the Israeli-Palestinian ...
The former, frail and haggard; the latter, healthy and in good spirits. Some Western mainstream media did focus on some ...
The political gathering dispersed on the evening of Monday, 13 October 2025. It didn’t follow Middle Eastern time, ...
There is more than one way to write history. It can be portrayed, for example, as a conflict between social classes or, ...
In an era marked by geopolitical upheaval and global realignments, the strategic relationship between Egypt and the United ...
When the bombing of Gaza finally stopped on 13 October, the silence carried the weight of months of deliberate work by ...
But there remain many challenges ahead, including the fear that the current extremist government of Israeli Prime Minister ...
US President Donald Trump has plenty of reasons to dislike the UN. For one, it is located in New York, where his family ...
Washington comes up with some ceasefire proposals and urges the Palestinians to accept them – or, more accurately, ...
Israel’s treacherous attack on Qatar, targeting the Hamas leadership, was followed by the usual reactions at critical ...
Israel today stands at a perilous historical crossroads. The gravity of its situation is not confined to the ongoing ...
With the release of the most recent US labour market report, revealing employment levels that can be described as disappointing, ...
Rania Khallaf enjoyed recalling Tawfik Al-Hakim’s literary contribution to the stage.
May is the sweet month that pays homage to nature and man alike. Trees, fields, gardens, and floral petals capture the ...
The sweet smell of flowers, the fields of green grass, the long daylight hours give us a new lease on life. Every little ...
Long before established religions, pre-historic man, as well as animals, instinctively refrained from eating when sick, ...
Muslims not only refrain from food and drink during the daylight hours, but ideally refrain from the sins of the flesh, ...
Feeling low in winter? The tired brain prefers to focus on winter’s woes and its body’s physical needs, rather ...
It is that mysteriously, magical, many-splendoured thing called love, bewitching and bewildering all mankind. Where ...
“The most wonderful time of the year” may have been ended, but in Hollywood it is just beginning. The holiday ...
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 ...
From tower tops, cathedrals, domes and palaces, the rich peals of silver bells will ring in a merry Christmas and a happy ...
This many splendored season of year’s end is hard to resist. Despite the apathy and lethargy that sucked out our ...
With December here and the new year is near, what are the visions of a better future? Always in pursuit of the unknown, innumerable ...
Is there any chance Benjamin Netanyahu and company will be arrested by the International Criminal Court? Not in a million, ...
“All men are created equal,” they cried as they etched in stone the greatest constitution of the “greatest ...
If we missed celebrating its international day, 1 October, it is time to make amends. We turn to Africa, “the cradle ...
This month’s official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum has sparked renewed calls to reclaim iconic ancient Egyptian artefacts from abroad.
Antique hunters from home and abroad are making a beeline for Downtown Cairo’s Diana Antiques Market.
Omnia Haridy looks at how the new technologies can be used as soft terror tools to brainwash people and menace whole societies.
The secret to nurturing a child’s potential may lie in melodies and rhythms as well as in traditional textbooks and school classes.
Serves 4-6 Ingredients: 1 kg boneless, skinless chicken meat (white or red, cubed) 2 onions (halved, sliced) 1 ...
Some techniques we’ve picked up over the years might actually be doing more harm than good, causing our skin to break out, our makeup to look patchy, or even making us appear older.
Rania Khallaf visits veteran Egyptian artist Evelyn Ashamallah in her Downtown Cairo apartment
On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the Palestinian Catastrophe – Al-Ahram Weekly republishes the 1998 special pages commemorating 50 years of Palestinian dispossession and the creation of Israel on 14 May 1948.
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.
On 23 April, Egypt announced that it was coordinating with Sudanese authorities to secure the safe return of Egyptian ...
The sun glares down on Argeen crossing at the Egyptian-Sudanese border. On Monday morning, the place looked calm. But ...
Hussein Bicar (1912-2002), one of Egypt’s most popular artists, lived to the age of 89. Born in 1913 in Alexandria, ...
All films screened in commercial cinemas are changed on Wednesday. Generally, shows begin at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, ...
Aisha Fahmy Palace 1 Aziz Abaza St, Zamalek, Tel 02 2735 8211 The Complex of Arts “Egypt’s Voice” ...
American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus,Room 2175, Tel 02 2615 2694 Moataz Al Alfi Hall Sun 16, 9:30am ...
American University in Cairo AUC New Cairo Campus Thurs 31, 9am – 5pm: The 6th African Philanthropy Conference ...
This information is correct at the time of going to press, it remains wise, however, to check with venues for any short ...
Arab Music Institute 22 Ramsis St, Tel 02 2574 3373 Fri 14, 8.30pm: A singing recital by Ibrahim Youssry. Beit ...
Egypt made it to next year’s World Cup. It was simple enough, writes Alaa Abdel-Ghani
The Germans snatched the title of the Under 17 handball World Championship with a dramatic 44-43 win against Egypt, after ...
The first manufacturing facility for solar thermal collectors in Egypt and the Middle East has come to life after a German grant, reports Mai Samih
Pope Kyrillos IV, Egyptian Pope between 1854 and 1861, transformed the Coptic Church. Politically, he asserted the ...