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A Eid film

Soha Hesham

Soha Hesham was disappointed in this season’s big-budget production

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A Eid film

The regional solution

Abdel-Moneim Said

Discussing issues of concern to the Arab region in this space, my motto has been “We have only ourselves.” ...

Levelling the international playing field: The Summit of the Future

Mahmoud Mohieldin

Delegations have begun to arrive in New York City ahead of meetings attended by world leaders at UN headquarters. One ...

Harris wins the debate

Hussein Haridy

America and the world at large were eagerly awaiting the first presidential debate between former US president Donald ...

Point-blank: Trump’s ravings

Mohamed Salmawy

And what I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country.” With this brief statement, she took the ...

War debate continues in Israel

Khaled Okasha

Not recently, but several months ago, Israel’s war on Gaza plunged into a dark and apparently endless tunnel and ...

The rich in politics

Ahmed Mustafa

There are limits to what money can buy. This is not just a proverb, but a practical reality that has been tried and tested ...

A pivotal presidential showdown

Azza Radwan Sedky

After some wrangling between the two candidates’ camps, it was decided that former US president Donald Trump and ...

Editorial: A region on fire

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Facing the failure of his fallacy over the “existential threat” that the border between Egypt and Gaza, known ...

Trapped in contradictions in the Middle East

Hussein Haridy

The US administration has promised over the last few days to elaborate a new proposal to be sent to Israel and Hamas ...

Developments in the law on space

Ibrahim Wagdy

The evolution of legal systems from early human societies to the present day is a fascinating journey that reflects the ...

Fighting the good fight

Abdel-Moneim Said

It all became as clear as day when, on 3 March 2024, Al Jazeera Mubasher’s broadcaster and occasional armchair ...

Cairo-Ankara: Building on commonalities

Abdel-Rahman Salaheddin

The Egyptian-Turkish Summit meeting that took place in the Turkish capital Ankara this week is the culmination of a process ...

Point-blank: Arab voices

Mohamed Salmawy

This, despite the US being the bastion of world Zionism and the foremost aider and abettor of the war of genocide Israel ...

Israel’s evil scheme in the West Bank

Abdel-Alim Mohamed

Israel seems determined to persist in its war of genocide in Gaza, or at least it has shown no intention to end it. Its ...

Editorial: Stalemate again

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Unlike in previous rounds of intense, high-level negotiations held in both Cairo and Doha, there seems to be a near consensus ...

A tragic turn in the ceasefire talks

Hussein Haridy

While low-level talks were taking place in Qatar to work out the details of the implementation of the US “comprehensive ...