Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/6/2025 4:42:01 PM
If it had been in favour of the Jews in Palestine, it would have been translated into every language on earth.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/27/2025 9:21:19 AM
In its recently released annual report, the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) highlighted alarming figures.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/18/2025 9:16:59 PM
An alarming news item has been overshadowed by US President Donald Trump’s shocking statements about his intention to “own” Gaza after illegally transferring its inhabitants to Egypt, Jordan, and elsewhere.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/11/2025 5:55:18 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/5/2025 9:59:00 PM
Some people believe that US President Donald Trump’s rash remark about transferring 1.5 million Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan was just an ill-considered off-the-cuff comment.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/28/2025 5:56:22 PM
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently released its annual report on journalists imprisoned because of their work in 2024. It listed China, Israel and Myanmar as the world’s leading jailers of journalists.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/21/2025 5:32:11 PM
My friend, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty explained to me at length Egypt’s stance on the recent developments in Syria.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/14/2025 4:53:44 PM
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot were the first Western officials to visit Syria after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad and the takeover by Ahmed Al-Sharaa leader of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS).
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/9/2025 9:35:00 AM
Ahmed Al-Sharaa, who seized power in Syria after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, is being given a complete makeover.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/18/2024 2:20:00 PM
I believe that in granting humanitarian asylum to Al-Assad, Russia has given itself the option to use him as a bargaining chip in any forthcoming political deals.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/10/2024 6:45:27 PM
Well, so much for political norms and conventions. President-elect Donald Trump is sweeping them aside even before he steps back into the White House on 20 January.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/3/2024 4:54:20 PM
Commmenting on the arrest warrants the International Criminal Court handed down against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the world renowned economist and international affairs specialist Jeffrey Sachs wrote: “Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined America, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanity in motion…
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/26/2024 5:14:30 PM
When I read the news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had—at long last—issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister Gallant, the first image that came to my mind was of that farcical joint session in Congress in which Republican and Democratic lawmakers shot to standing more than fifty times in the space of an hour to applaud every single lie and deception uttered by the first of those two men now wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/19/2024 4:39:50 PM
In an old but still representative statement circulated since Donald Trump became president-elect, his choice for secretary of state, Senator Marco Rubio, echoed the most extremist elements in the far-right Israeli government.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/12/2024 6:00:07 PM
The best explanation of the Islamist orientation of the Palestinian resistance, as embodied by Hamas, was given by the brilliant Indian writer Arundhati Roy in her recent acceptance speech at the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/5/2024 6:22:34 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/29/2024 6:21:22 PM
“Elites in the Arab Diaspora: Current challenges and potential role.”
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/22/2024 4:25:25 PM
The genocide Israel has been carrying out in Gaza has so far cost it 100 billion shekels ($30 billion), according to the occupying power’s Ministry of Finance.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/15/2024 6:45:45 PM
Participants in discussions concerning the media during the meeting with the prime minister last week agreed that insufficient freedom of access to information has driven people away from the official media and towards alternative media sources, especially social media, which are filled with all sorts of misinformation and baseless rumours.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/8/2024 3:32:51 PM
I was completely taken aback by US President Joe Biden’s statement celebrating the assassination of the Secretary-General of Hizbullah Hassan Nasrallah.
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