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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/12/2024 4:07:08 PM
The Ottomans tried to introduce reforms so that the people did not abandon the Ottoman idea and imagine replacements for it. They failed, writes Tarek Osman
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/5/2024 6:53:26 PM
In the century since the fall of the Ottomans, no political project has proved more successful or more calamitous than Arab nationalism, writes Tarek Osman
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Books
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Reviews
3/4/2024 7:12:34 PM
Egypt celebrated, throughout February, the legacy of the extraordinary musical career of Oum Kolthoum, the ultimate diva of Egyptian and Arab singing during the entire 20th century.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/20/2024 9:34:44 PM
Of all the political projects that emerged in the Levant after the fall of the Ottomans, the modern state of Lebanon was the most ambitious and most fraught, writes Tarek Osman
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
2/13/2024 8:45:08 PM
A 15th-century Arabic disquisition on the plague has appeared for the first time in English translation, writes David Tresilian
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/13/2024 4:50:04 PM
Hashemite rule has been among the most enduring political structures in the Levant in the century since the fall of the Ottomans, writes Tarek Osman
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/6/2024 5:56:21 PM
The fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago led to the emergence of new political ideas in the Levant, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula that continue to mark the region today, writes Tarek Osman
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Sports
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Omni sports
2/1/2024 7:00:36 PM
US long jumper Bob Beamon parted with the Olympic gold medal he won at the 1968 Mexico City summer games leaping 29 feet -- the standing Olympic record -- for $441,000 on Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
1/9/2024 8:16:35 PM
Opera has been an integral part of Egypt’s cultural and artistic scene since the late 19th century, writes Sally Abed
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Books
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Reviews
12/31/2023 9:23:44 PM
The memoirs of a former mental hospital director and a famous purse-snatcher throw light on the lives of marginalized Egyptians during the first half of the 20th century.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
12/29/2023 5:18:34 PM
Almost a century after his big-screen debut, Mickey Mouse enters the public domain Monday, opening the floodgates to potential remakes, spin-offs, adaptations... and legal battles with Disney.
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Sports
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Omni sports
12/21/2023 9:25:40 AM
Joel Embiid scored a season-high 51 points and grabbed 12 rebounds Wednesday to accomplish feats unseen for more than a half-century as the Philadelphia 76ers beat NBA-best Minnesota 127-113.
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World
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International
12/9/2023 10:06:57 AM
A century-old territorial dispute deepened by the discovery of oil is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. Steeped in patriotism, the Venezuelan government is seizing on the fight to boost support ahead of a presidential election among a population fed up with a decade-long crisis that has pushed many into poverty.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/8/2023 9:06:00 PM
An alliance of 13 major aid groups urged world leaders to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, after one month of the Israeli war on the strip that has killed and injured more than 35,000 Palestinians and triggered one of the worst human catastrophes in the 21st century.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
10/26/2023 7:34:11 PM
A quarter of a century in the making, Greece's capital Athens on Thursday opens a museum honouring legendary soprano Maria Callas, billed as the first of its kind in the world.
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Antiquities
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Museums
10/26/2023 5:10:10 PM
After two years of closure, the restoration work of the Rosetta National Museum (previously Arab Killy House) began early this week to regain the 18th-century mansion of the Ottoman governor of Rosetta Arab Killy, its lure and allure.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Limelight
10/17/2023 5:46:33 PM
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Sports
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World
10/13/2023 10:02:55 AM
Julian Nagelsmann, the youngest Germany coach for almost a century, has turned to veterans as he hopes to rebuild the fallen giants nine months out from hosting Euro 2024.
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World
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Region
9/21/2023 8:10:26 PM
Israeli tanks struck two structures on Thursday inside what the army said was a demilitarized zone in Syria, claiming the buildings violated a half-century-old cease-fire agreement between the two countries, the Israeli occupation army said.
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World
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International
9/16/2023 11:42:54 AM
The apples were almost ripe for harvesting when the worst storms in more than a century struck Greece's breadbasket in Thessaly.
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