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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/19/2022 8:45:47 PM
Cairo was one of the world’s most glamorous cities in the early 20th century, the result of policies carried out over previous generations by members of the Mohamed Ali Dynasty, writes Tarek Osman
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Heritage
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Folk Arts
7/8/2022 1:03:30 PM
Under the steady hum of a ceiling fan, Ahmed Othman weaves golden threads through black fabric, creating Koranic verses, a century after his grandfather's work adorned the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/7/2022 5:51:06 PM
Tarek Osman continues his series on members of Egypt’s former ruling Mohamed Ali Dynasty with the 19th-century ruler Ismail Pasha.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Exhibitions
6/28/2022 8:18:59 PM
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/28/2022 4:00:36 PM
Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, further alienating the country from the global financial system following sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/28/2022 11:25:10 AM
Moody's ratings agency has confirmed that Russia defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time in a century, after bond holders did not receive $100 million in interest payments.
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World
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International
6/25/2022 12:24:00 PM
The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans’ lives after nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade. The court’s overturning of the landmark court ruling is likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
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World
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International
6/24/2022 6:32:02 PM
The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of America's most divisive and bitterly fought issues.
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Life & Style
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Style
6/17/2022 4:15:57 PM
Revlon, a cosmetics maker that broke racial barriers and dictated beauty trends for much of the last century, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
6/14/2022 10:20:35 PM
Summer is back and the new cultural season kicks off with, among other performances across the urban landscape, the traditional, Sufi-rooted tannoura whirling dancers, who will be performing at the 16th-century Sultan Al-Ghouri complex.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
6/12/2022 10:29:39 AM
Having to defend Gotland against a foreign invasion seemed such a far-fetched notion to Swedish decision-makers at the start of the century that they demilitarized the Baltic Sea island.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
6/7/2022 3:08:03 PM
Cinema was hailed as the art of the century for more than 100 years.
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World
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International
5/18/2022 11:17:27 AM
Congress held its first hearing in half a century late Tuesday on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is still no government confirmation of extraterrestrial life.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/1/2022 6:56:38 PM
The current level of disagreements between Cairo and Washington is within the normal range given the path of a century of diplomatic relations.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
4/30/2022 5:46:00 PM
A new Paris exhibition is celebrating Jean-François Champollion, the French decipherer of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century and one of the founding figures of modern Egyptology.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/9/2022 11:20:22 PM
The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded its assessment of Russia's ability to repay foreign debt, signaling rising prospects that Moscow will soon default on external loans for the first time in more than a century.
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World
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Region
4/2/2022 12:23:38 PM
Iraq exported $11.07 billion of oil last month, the highest level for half a century, as crude prices soared amid shortfall fears following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the oil ministry said.
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World
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International
3/23/2022 10:53:35 PM
Madeleine Albright, who came to the United States as a child refugee and rose to be the first female secretary of state, shaping American foreign policy at the end of the 20th century, has died at the age of 84.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/22/2022 8:18:37 PM
Egypt’s foreign policy has been characterised by strong elements of continuity since the foundation of the country’s Foreign Ministry a century ago, writes Walid Mahmoud Abdelnasser
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/16/2022 8:32:38 PM
Russia on Wednesday ceased to be a member of the Council of Europe after over a quarter of a century of membership in the pan-European rights body, the council said in a statement.
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