Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/29/2024 6:15:13 PM
A Japanese NGO that works to keep the memory of the atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki alive has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, writes Walid M. Abdelnasser
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/13/2024 4:02:52 PM
Egypt congratulated the anti-nuclear Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024 for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/11/2024 1:01:05 PM
The situation for children in Gaza is similar to the situation in Japan at the end of World War II, the co-head of new Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo said Friday.
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Egypt
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Society
8/18/2024 6:43:18 PM
A trove of unpublished documents obtained by Ahram Online (AO) from the Nobel Academy reveal early Egyptian efforts to nominate an Egyptian for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.
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World
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International
8/8/2024 11:17:20 AM
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 10:44:08 AM
A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests Tuesday called for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to be named as the head of a new interim government, a day after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of deadly unrest.
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World
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International
6/18/2024 3:37:01 PM
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a year in prison for "propaganda against the state", the jailed activist's lawyer said on Tuesday.
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World
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Region
10/6/2023 12:23:33 PM
Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran.
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World
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International
3/3/2023 2:29:17 PM
A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Ales Bialiatski, Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, to 10 years in prison.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/21/2023 10:18:25 PM
Bjorn Lomborg argues for a redoubling of modern framing methods to meet humanity’s rising demand for food
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/8/2022 6:26:40 PM
A day after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize with fellow human rights campaigners from Belarus and Russia, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties praised the work of her fellow laureates but cautioned against lumping the three together in a Cold War-like narrative.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
10/7/2022 1:41:36 PM
A trio of human rights champions from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a highly symbolic choice of laureates drawn from three nations at the centre of the war in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
10/5/2022 9:14:08 AM
As speculation mounts ahead of Friday's much-anticipated Nobel Peace Prize announcement, observers suggest the committee may sound the alarm over the war in Ukraine or climate change.
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World
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Africa
1/13/2022 2:31:50 PM
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, said Thursday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the honour in 2019, bore special responsibility for ending the bloodshed in Tigray.
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World
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Africa
12/31/2021 4:10:41 PM
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in a war that erupted in November 2020 between Ethiopian forces and fighters from the country's Tigray region, who dominated the national government before Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/27/2021 2:52:02 PM
Egypt mourned the death of South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
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World
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Africa
11/24/2021 2:57:11 PM
Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has gone to the battlefront to take charge in a yearlong war as rival fighters approach the capital, his government announced Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
11/23/2021 12:03:54 AM
Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country's army ``from the battlefront'' beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step in a devastating yearlong war.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/14/2021 3:03:00 PM
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two journalists last week for their efforts to ensure freedom of expression, but unfortunately not every prize winner has merited the award.
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World
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International
10/8/2021 6:47:00 PM
Investigative journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work promoting freedom of expression at a time when liberty of the press is increasingly under threat.
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