World
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International
10/14/2024 3:25:29 PM
The Nobel prize in Economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.
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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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World
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International
10/9/2024 3:14:48 PM
Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing proteins' secrets through computing and artificial intelligence.
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World
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International
10/8/2024 1:17:31 PM
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.
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World
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International
10/7/2024 5:59:50 PM
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering microRNA, tiny bits of genetic material that serve as on-and-off switches inside cells that help control what the cells do and when they do it.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/3/2024 9:40:03 AM
Palestinian activist Issa Amro on Thursday accepted the Right Livelihood prize -- considered by some an alternative Nobel -- for his "nonviolent resistance to Israel's illegal occupation" in the West Bank, the jury said.
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Books
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News
9/18/2024 10:43:28 AM
The Booker Prize for fiction shortlist for 2024, announced on Monday, featured the largest-ever number of women authors in its 55-year history as well as its first Dutch author.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
9/8/2024 3:50:29 PM
The two Egyptian films Aisha Can’t Fly Away and My Father’s Scent scooped most of the prizes offered by Venice Film Festival's Final Cut (1-3 September), an industry section supporting films from the African continent and some chosen Arab countries (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria) in their production stages.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
9/8/2024 1:14:15 PM
Born during the dark days of dictatorship, Pedro Almodovar -- awarded the top prize in Venice Saturday -- chronicled in vivid colour the reopening of Spanish society, and has come to embody his country's cinema.
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Sports
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World
8/29/2024 4:14:23 PM
The Champions League gets a fresh look with more teams playing for more prize money from more games against more opponents. The draw is on Thursday.
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Sports
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World
8/27/2024 1:43:44 PM
The new Champions League format this season will see more teams playing more games for more prize money.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Theater
8/20/2024 8:54:18 PM
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Sports
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Omni sports
8/20/2024 5:26:00 PM
Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner tested positive twice for a banned anabolic steroid in March and was stripped of prize money and points earned at a tournament in Indian Wells, California, but will not be suspended because an independent tribunal said it was not intentional.
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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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Life & Style
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Style
8/18/2024 1:27:40 PM
Saul Perlmutter, professor of Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, talks about his latest book: Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/11/2024 11:36:04 AM
The Egyptian Olympic Committee has significantly increased prize money for medal winners at the Paris 2024 games.
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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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Life & Style
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Health
7/16/2024 2:24:21 PM
Professor Anne L’Huillier, the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize (2023) in physics in 117 years, spoke to Ahram Online about attosecond science during the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in Germany.
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