Al-Ahram Weekly - Opinion

Regional adjustments

Abdel-Moneim Said

One question that always nagged at me over nearly half a century in the course of my career was whether the international ...

The war must stop

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

But this is unlikely to put a stop to the suffering of the Sudanese people in the capital Khartoum, as well as in Darfur ...

Threshold of the new world order?

Raouf Saad

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has confirmed what political experts and observers have been saying for a while, which ...

The Florida blueprint for America

Hussein Haridy

After returning from a foreign tour with his wife that took Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis to Japan, South Korea, Israel, ...

The Arabian Peninsula — (1) Power

Tarek Osman

Power is compelling. For decades, the states of the Arabian Peninsula have exercised a decisive sway over international ...

Point-blank: Covert wars

Mohamed Salmawy

Don’t think that the conflicts we read about in the news are the only wars going on around us or that the warring ...

Convergence of views in the Gulf

Ahmed Mustafa

Sources in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi emphasised the good relations between the two neighbouring Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia ...

Four summits on the road ahead

Hussein Haridy

Seldom has the world seen four more important summit meetings than those that took place in the span of three days from ...

Improving education

Bjorn Lomborg

One thing that taxpayers and politicians agree on practically everywhere is that more money should be spent on children’s ...

The National Dialogue on discrimination

Nevine Mossaad

Egypt’s National Dialogue commenced its proceedings last week by discussing some of the issues to be dealt with ...

The Cairo dialogues

Abdel-Moneim Said

It has been a long time since I wrote about Egypt for the readers of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, which tended to be in ...

Scent and sensibility

Lubna Abdel-Aziz

It fills the air with visions of paradise, of roses and hyacinth, of jasmine and orange blossoms, of sunny Mediterranean ...

Talking about the future

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Ten years after Egyptians took to the streets on 30 June 2013 to demand an end to the failing rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, ...

Distorting the truth

Azza Radwan Sedky

On 8 May, a press release signed by eight NGOs criticised Egypt for adding individuals they considered to be “human ...

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