Al-Ahram Weekly - Opinion

A Eid film

Soha Hesham

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

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A Eid film

Netanyahu’s miscalculations

Mohamed Fayez Farahat

The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, along with several high-ranking Hizbullah leaders, will have significant repercussions ...

Myths of soft power

Mahmoud Mohieldin

One of the worst harms to the general public and policymakers alike comes from stripping opinions and ideas of their ...

Building the Egyptian citizen

Alieddin Hilal

President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi announced the launch of the “New Beginning for Building the Egyptian Citizen” ...

The Middle East killing fields

Hussein Haridy

The mayhem, destruction, and killing of hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese people every day that the world has been ...

The Arab private sector and international organisations

Walid M. Abdelnasser

I recently had the pleasure of being invited to participate in the conference organised by the Arab-Swiss Chamber ...

Sustainably financing sustainable development

Paola Subacchi

The just-concluded United Nations Summit of the Future in New York, and next year’s World War II Summit for Social ...

A necessary respite

Abdel-Moneim Said

So much of the news today is pleasant. A lot of it is heartbreaking, of course, because of what is happening in Palestine, ...

Point-blank: Booby-trapping the dead

Mohamed Salmawy

The deadly impact of the devices was not limited to persons carrying them, who were presumably Hizbullah members. The ...

Editorial: Beyond boiling point

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

This marks the beginning of a new chapter in ongoing confrontations between Israel and its neighbours — whether ...

Editorial: Endless escalation

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

“Our goals are clear,” he boasted, “and our actions speak for themselves.” While the second part ...

The Blinken rite

Abdel-Moneim Said

It appears that Antony Blinken’s visits have become one of the Middle East’s new rituals. He is about to ...

The Palestinian-Israeli peace proposal­ ­— II

Khaled Okasha

From the Arab perspective, the value of the “Working Together to Achieve Peace in the Middle East” document ...

Tactical advance vs strategic retreat

Hussein Haridy

The year-long confrontation between Israel and the Iran-backed Hizbullah group in Lebanon almost came to a head last ...

Point-blank: We forgot Sudan

Mohamed Salmawy

Upon investigating, I discovered it was one of many artefacts looted from Sudanese museums. Nor was this the only such ...

Increasing problems of drug-trafficking

Eman Ragab

The activities of cross-border illicit drug and psychoactive substance-trafficking networks have been on the rise. Moreover, ...

The Sudan war and climate change

Farouk Hussein Abu Deif

The African continent is one of the most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Although Africa’s total ...