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

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 ...

Culture

The shape of water

Remembering Nehad Selaiha and the movement she documented and helped shape, Sarah Enany goes to the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre to attend the South African show

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The shape of water

Limelight

Meet the Swifties

Arguably, the biggest celebrity in the world right now is Taylor Swift. In case some have not heard of her, it is time ...

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Meet the Swifties

Is your brain shrinking?

Last year a study was widely circulated in which scientists claimed that the human brain has shrunk. This was the ...

The heat is on

As the temperatures rise in this sweltering heat, our summer sears our bodies and steams our minds, with little relief. Is ...

A smile on Olympus

Amidst much pomp and circumstance, the world once again salutes the splendour of the human spirit. In a sea aglow ...

Summers by the sea

Here comes the roaring summer season with a myriad pleasures, through its longest days and sparkling lights. Despite ...

Wars of the mind

Propaganda has always been a powerful tool in manipulating man’s wars and man’s minds. It is the active ...

That magnificent obsession

It may be deadly, but irresistible. You dream of its euphoric scent penetrating the air around you. You crave that mellow ...

Scents and senses

The summer breezes permeate the air with fragrances of jasmine and hibiscus, refreshing our senses to the world without ...

Does no one care?

Summertime — and the living is easy, so it says. The season is officially here; whatever happened to the ...

Pursue the male species

Far from the hell and bloodbaths of agony and distress, the wars wage in distance places. The sad reality, evident ...

‘How sad and bad and mad it was’

What a seething, daunting, restless place this world is. Tensions are rising every hour, leaping from one spot to ...

If you believe Nostradamus

Once again an old book of prophecies is capturing the world’s attention. It is not just any book. It is the interpretation ...

Pack up your troubles

Our anxiety is by no means a modern phenomenon. It is part of our existence; an unavoidable consequence of life itself. Though ...

How sweet it is

The history of our world is the record of man in quest for food. Man does not live by bread alone; he needs something ...

Put the kettle on

It is a love story that has only grown in intensity and unquenchable desire throughout the ages. This intoxicating brew ...

Special

The Egyptian-Israeli Treaty at a crossroads

The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has put unprecedented pressure on the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty and the process of which it is a part, writes Sobhi Essaila

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The Egyptian-Israeli Treaty at a crossroads

Lectures

Don't miss “What is Metaphysics?” talk by Ariane Schenck at the AUC

American University in Cairo AUC New Cairo Campus The Sullivan Lounge Sun 22, 1pm – 2.30pm: “What ...

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Don't miss “What is Metaphysics?” talk by Ariane Schenck at the AUC