''Al-Ahram Hebdo'' is a
French-language weekly newspaper
A weekly newspaper is a general-news or current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly n ...
in
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
.
History and profile
''Al Ahram Hebdo'' was established in 1994 by the Al Ahram publishing house which also owns ''
Al-Ahram'' newspaper, an
English-language version, and ''
Al Ahram Weekly
''Al-Ahram Weekly'' is an English-language weekly broadsheet printed by the Al-Ahram Publishing House in Cairo, Egypt.
History and profile
''Al Ahram Weekly'' was established in 1991 by the ''Al-Ahram'' newspaper, which also runs a French-langua ...
''. The paper which is published weekly is based in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...
.
Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo
editors-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
. Hisham Mourad also served as editor-in-chief. He was appointed to the post in January 2011. In June 2014, Fouad Mansour who was the managing editor of the magazine since 2003, was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. Fouad Mansour co-founded Ahram Online, Egypt biggest English language news website, with veteran Egyptian journalist and writer Hani Shukrallah in 2010
Dina Abdel Mooti Darwich, an Egyptian journalist who won the first
Samir Kassir, Samir Kassir Prize in 2006 for an article written in Al-Ahram Hebdo, is among the founding team of the weekly.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Egypt
The number of Arabic newspapers in Egypt was about 200 in 1938. There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, such as Turkish, French and English. By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were ...
References
External links
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1994 establishments in Egypt
French-language newspapers published in Egypt
Newspapers published in Cairo
Publications established in 1994
State media
Weekly newspapers published in Egypt