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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
5/30/2023 1:29:00 PM
Al-Ahram Weekly reports on efforts to protect Egypt’s migratory birds through the Migratory Soaring Birds Project and other activities.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/9/2023 9:34:18 PM
Rania Khallaf rediscovers the wonders of photography
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Life & Style
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Health
4/12/2023 2:30:54 PM
Three cases of H3N8 detected in China since 2022 as World Health Organization says strain doesn’t appear to spread easily between humans.
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Business
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Tech
11/20/2022 8:03:45 PM
After another chaotic week of mass staff departures and policy reversals, Twitter's future seems highly uncertain, with users -- and everybody else -- increasingly asking one question: What would a world without the so-called bird app even look like?
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/8/2022 3:48:00 PM
Alyaa Abo Shahba and Mohamed Abo Leila travel to hunting areas across Egypt and find that flawed inspections and other problems may be putting some migratory birds at risk.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/8/2022 10:37:03 AM
Flamingos, herons and fish once filled a freshwater lagoon in southern Spain. Today, it's a fetid brown splotch. The whisper of wind in the grass is a sad substitute for the cacophony of migratory birds.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
10/16/2022 1:01:47 PM
Singers, actors, sports stars _ the list goes on. Iranian celebrities have been startlingly public in their support for the massive anti-government protests shaking their country. And the ruling establishment is lashing back.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
10/11/2022 12:14:00 PM
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World
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Africa
10/3/2022 8:38:55 PM
Close to thirty African penguins have died due to avian flu since mid-August at Boulders beach near Cape Town, a crucial breeding site in South Africa.
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COP27
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Climate change
9/28/2022 9:22:42 PM
Almost half of all bird species are in decline globally and one in eight are threatened with extinction, according to a major new report warning that human actions are driving more species to the brink and nature is "in trouble".
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Books
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Reviews
9/25/2022 1:56:25 PM
In his semi-memoire, Hekayat Taeir AlTabashir (“Stories of the Bird on the Chalkboard”), cartoonist and illustrator Ahmed Ezzalaarab shares recollections of and views on people and politics – with the 1970s figuring high in his stream of consciousness.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
6/14/2022 12:27:28 PM
The lush green beauty of a pine forest with singing birds contrasted with the violent deaths of newly discovered victims of Russia's war in Ukraine, as workers exhumed bodies from another mass grave near the town of Bucha on Kyiv's outskirts.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
6/10/2022 3:03:00 PM
Calls were made to unify efforts to protect and sustain the habitats of the world’s migratory birds on this year’s World Migratory Bird Day.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Special
6/7/2022 7:22:04 PM
A first-of-its-kind guidebook on Egypt’s birds invites us to open our eyes to surrounding rich avifauna.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
5/7/2022 2:18:39 PM
The Syrian engraver and caricaturist Youssef Abdelke held an exhibition of his works inspired by famous Egyptian poet Salah Jahin’s (1930-1986) quatrains at the Mashrabia gallery last month.
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World
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International
5/2/2022 6:30:53 PM
A record 16 million chickens, ducks, and other poultry have been culled in France since November in one of the most severe bird flu outbreaks in years, the agriculture ministry said Monday.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
4/22/2022 5:16:07 PM
As free as the curlew bird that greets her and her audience every time she sings on stage, Tunisian diva Ghalia Benali broke from the typical time constrains of songs, chanting only long poems of her choice during her latest concert in Cairo.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
1/18/2022 5:25:54 PM
Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous artists, and many regard him as one of the world’s greatest living ones. Working with the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, he helped design the Bird’s Nest Stadium, the centerpiece of Beijing’s 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Books
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News
1/12/2022 11:20:37 AM
Poet and activist Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on the US quarter, in a new version of the coin unveiled by the US Mint on Monday.
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World
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Region
12/26/2021 9:35:00 PM
A bird flu outbreak has killed more than 2,000 wild cranes on a reserve in northern Israel, an unusually high toll for the seasonal flu, the parks authority said Sunday.
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