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World
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International
2/8/2023 5:53:18 PM
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe's longest-serving monarch, will undergo ``major back surgery'' later this month, the royal palace said Wednesday.
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World
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International
2/8/2023 3:44:53 PM
With the death toll rising by the hour, the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 5 is already among the ten deadliest of the 21st century.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/7/2023 11:18:00 PM
The deadliest earthquake this century, which hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, had already claimed more than 5000 lives by the time Al-Ahram Weekly went to print. The figures are expected to continue rising, with every minute passing, meaning less hope of survivors among the thousands buried under the rubble.
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Heritage
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Walks
2/5/2023 5:51:29 PM
In our third article on documenting the social history of historic districts of Egypt, Ahram Online walks with Mohamed Yehia, founder of Semsemia tours, and explores the stories behind the construction of the country's first company town during the digging of the Suez Canal in the mid-19th Century.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/31/2023 9:24:38 PM
The iconic singer Umm Kolthoum was the best-known Egyptian cultural figure across the Arab world in the middle decades of the last century, writes Tarek Osman in his series of articles on modern Egyptian culture
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/31/2023 8:35:37 PM
A new Paris exhibition is marking 100 years of heritage and archaeology in Afghanistan, writes David Tresilian
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Books
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News
1/29/2023 12:34:04 PM
To mark 130 years since it first came out in 1892, the Dar Al-Helal monthly magazine put out a special issue reprinting articles and pictures that have appeared on its pages for over a century, charting the great debates that have shaped the country’s intellectual history.
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World
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International
1/26/2023 9:22:51 PM
A Middle Eastern and North African category could be added to U.S. federal surveys and censuses, and changes could be made to how Hispanics are able to self-identify, under preliminary recommendations released Thursday by the Biden administration in what would be the first update to race and ethnicity standards in a quarter century.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
1/24/2023 1:25:59 PM
Computed tomography (CT) scans and 3D printing have revealed the secrets of the 2,300-year-old “Mummy of the Golden Boy,” enabling it to be displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir for the first time in more than a century.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
1/22/2023 2:45:58 PM
Fayrouz Karawya spoke to Ahram Online, talking about her first critical narrative book, Kol Dah Kan Leih? (“What Was All That For?”), reveals a spiral way of reading the musical history of the late 19th and 20th century Egypt.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
1/17/2023 7:31:45 PM
An Alexandria exhibition follows in the footsteps of Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II, who travelled to Egypt in the 19th century and brought two distant worlds together.
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World
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International
1/5/2023 9:36:57 PM
The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
1/3/2023 9:40:37 PM
Zahi Hawass reviews the route taken by the Holy Family in Egypt after they fled the persecution of king Herod in the early years of the first century CE
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Sports
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World
12/30/2022 10:55:46 AM
FIFA said Pele was simply "immortal" after the Brazil legend, named by world football's governing body as the greatest player of the 20th century, died on Thursday aged 82.
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Sports
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World
12/29/2022 10:10:00 PM
Pele, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82.
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World
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International
12/28/2022 9:51:20 AM
The monster storm that killed dozens in the United States over the Christmas weekend continued to inflict misery on New York state and air travelers nationwide Tuesday, as stories emerged of families trapped for days during the "blizzard of the century."
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World
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International
12/26/2022 5:22:31 PM
Emergency crews in New York were scrambling Monday to rescue marooned residents from what authorities called the "blizzard of the century," a relentless storm that has left at least 25 dead in the state and is causing US Christmas travel chaos.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/13/2022 9:29:37 PM
Tarek Osman considers the contribution of the 20th-century thinker Taha Hussein to theorising cultural life in Egypt in his series on the makers of modern Egyptian culture
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/6/2022 11:24:42 PM
Tarek Osman writes on the uncomfortable message delivered by the early 20th-century thinker Ahmed Lotfi Al-Sayed in his series of articles on modern Egyptian culture
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World Cup 2022
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News
11/29/2022 11:09:26 PM
Christian Pulisic scored while crashing headfirst into the goalkeeper in the 38th minute and the United States advanced to the knockout round of the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Iran on Tuesday in a politically charged rematch of their famous meeting a quarter-century ago.
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