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Hanaa Ebeid

A New Pact for the Mediterranean

As the 30th anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in November 1995 and commonly referred to as the “Barcelona Process," draws near, a new initiative has been introduced to redefine the cooperation framework.
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Bahgat Korany

Confronting this daily national threat

Like some of my colleagues, I believe that personal anecdotes should not burden the reader unless they are intrinsically linked to matters of public concern or the daily lives of citizens.
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Nabil Fahmy

The Middle East: What now?

May 2025 redrew Middle East power lines with diplomacy, arms deals, and Gaza’s devastation shaping a volatile future where law risks being eclipsed by brute force.
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Egypt launches self-service ticketing machines at Saqqara

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has completed installing and activating self-service ticketing machines at the Saqqara archaeological site.

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Tourism Ministry inaugurates new visitor centre of Alexandria's Qaitbay Citadel

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has inaugurated a newly equipped visitor centre at the Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria, enhancing visitors’ experience at one of Egypt’s most iconic historical landmarks.

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New discoveries, restorations in Luxor shed new light on Egypt’s heritage

Luxor is currently unveiling a series of remarkable developments and discoveries at four of its key archaeological sites.

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Egypt recovers 11 smuggled artefacts from the United States

Egypt has successfully recovered 11 artefacts representing different historical eras, which had been illegally smuggled to the United States.

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From Ocean to Gulf: Heritage Music of The Arab World - Music of Happy Yemen (20th Century)

'From Ocean to Gulf: Heritage Music of the Arab World' is a series by Ahram Online, in partnership with the AMAR Foundation (Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research). In this article, we explore the rich music legacy of Yemen.

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How to use Memory of the City app on your smarphone

Minister of Culture Ahmed Fouad Hanno launched the Memory of the City smartphone application on Sunday and honoured the exceptional achievements of prominent cultural and heritage icons.

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Dispatches from a catastrophe: Revisiting the Palestinian Nakba of 1948 in Al-Ahram headlines

Long before the Nakba became a word half the world avoids, it was lived — day by day, raid by raid, village by village. As Palestinians mark 77 years of dispossession, we revisit the pages of Al-Ahram, which chronicled the catastrophe as it happened.

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Sinai Bedouin women share their heritage stories in stop motion at British Council

Sinai Bedouin women showcased heritage stories during the Story Telling for All exhibition, held over the weekend at the British Council in Cairo.

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Social media fueling ‘devastating’ kids’ mental health crisis: NGO

The "unchecked expansion" of social media platforms is driving an unprecedented global mental health crisis in kids and teens, a children's NGO said, calling for urgent coordinated action worldwide.

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May 2025 second warmest on record: EU climate monitor

Global heating continued as the new norm, with last month the second warmest May on record on land and in the oceans, according to the European Union's climate monitoring service.

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Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: Scientists

Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.

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Writer first to die under Italy fast-track assisted suicide law

A writer suffering from Parkinson's disease has become the first to die through medically assisted suicide under a fast-track regional law in Italy, campaigners said Wednesday.

In a rich and free-flowing collection of thoughts and impressions Kazem is unapologetically herself, daring to state her views without much concern for the reactions she might provoke.

Ahead of the publication of his new book, Israel on the Brink, historian Ilan Pappé argues that Israel is exercising worse atrocities against Palestinians than it ever did since the Nakba of May 1948.

Tarek Taha delves into the busy world of delivery services in Cairo to draw a profile of Cairenes in the 2020s.

On 25 April, Egyptian author Mohamed Samir Nada was awarded the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Prayer of Anxiety, a darkly allegorical tale set in a secluded village in Upper Egypt.