World
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Region
6/3/2023 11:59:36 AM
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian Friday on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting of Friends of BRICS Group in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
6/2/2023 3:07:00 PM
Egypt continues to build up its wheat stocks both locally and from abroad.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
5/31/2023 9:43:40 PM
At one of El-Warsha's recent performances, the audience sang along with Naima Al Masrya's classic tune "Ya Aziz Eini Ana Awez Arawah Balady" (O The Apple of My eye, I want to go back home) and participated in the troupe's group singing session and educational presentation on Egypt's social history.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/30/2023 9:23:32 PM
Based on the findings of a UK study, a Palestinian legal rights centre has addressed the Israeli authorities to demarcate mass graves of Palestinians killed in the Tantura village by Zionist militias in 1948, Amira Howeidy reports
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Heritage
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Heritage special
5/30/2023 4:45:15 PM
Masters of the Craft series is created in collaboration with Fair-Trade Egypt.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
5/22/2023 3:00:15 PM
In the heart of Islamic Cairo, at the premises of the House of Egyptian Architecture, Palestinian house keys, photographs, and letters were celebrated at the kickoff event of Palestinian Stories, a digital archive for Palestinian families.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/21/2023 4:07:41 PM
The Palestinian yearning to return has been represented as a quixotic gesture, an impossible dream, in the face of Israel's efforts to obliterate the past and to massage history to make it serve Israeli interests. Yet for Salman Abu Sitta, a Palestinian, in exile, the true picture of the past must be preserved if it is to come to the aid of the present; the painstaking reconstruction of what happened in 1948 and since must be undertaken to ensure that the aspirations of the defeated live on, despite the brute facts of their exile and dispossession
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/21/2023 10:35:00 AM
Experts explain lessons learned from the initiative allowing expats to import tax-free cars
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Heritage
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Heritage special
5/17/2023 6:06:53 PM
Egypt's High Institute for Folk Arts celebrated Folk Games Day for the first time on Tuesday with close to 100 games, including hopscotch, pull the rope, and stick art.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/16/2023 11:49:47 PM
The visit by Pope Tawadros II to the Vatican and the exchange of gifts with Pope Francis assert the amicable relationship between the Coptic and Catholic churches, reports Amira Hisham
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Heritage
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Heritage special
5/15/2023 3:32:12 PM
This year’s graduation projects from the AUC’s graphic design department are on display in the "Under CTRL" exhibition at the campus’s Sharjah Gallery through 30 May, showcasing the connection between the young generation and their intangible cultural heritage.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/15/2023 11:58:00 AM
The Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestine War, Kamel Ismail El-Sherif, 1949, Cairo, 265 pages
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 7:05:32 PM
Few survived the massacre of Deir Yassin 50 years ago, and of them, even fewer are alive today to recount its horrors. Amira Howeidy reviews the carnage through their words
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 6:46:17 PM
On 18 April 1948 the first Arab town-- Tiberias-- fell to the hands of the Haganah. Four days later Haifa's Palestinian population had to flee under the Haganah's combined shelling and ground offensives. This is the story their exodus
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:43:32 PM
Despite immense sacrifices, and extraordinary cases of heroism, all the efforts of Palestinians and the Arab armies were in vain. But why? Kamal Al-Sherif, speaking to Amira Howeidy, recounts his experiences in 1948, his feelings on the ground, as an active participant in the struggle, and in retrospect, as a supporter of ongoing Palestinian resistance
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:38:02 PM
Remembering little, but aware of his father's legendary status, the son of Palestine war hero Ahmed Abdel-Aziz talks to Amira Howeidy about his father's legacy
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Heritage
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Heritage special
5/11/2023 10:20:05 PM
The Tablyat Masr Initiative is a series of talks initiated by The National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC), and it focuses on Egyptian cuisine as a key element of intangible cultural heritage.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/9/2023 9:39:04 PM
Austrian-Egyptian actress Amira El-Sayed will appear in five of first six episodes of the new Cold War era HBO series Spy/Master.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/9/2023 9:28:22 PM
Several factors point to a bumper wheat crop this year, reports Amira Hisham
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/9/2023 1:43:00 PM
The upcoming visit by Pope Tawadros II to the Vatican will draw the Coptic Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches closer, reports Amira Hisham
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