''Al-Ahram Weekly'' is an

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weekly

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printed by the Al-Ahram Publishing House in

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History and profile

''Al Ahram Weekly'' was established in 1991 by the ''

Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...

'' newspaper, which also runs a

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weekly version, '' Al-Ahram Hebdo''. Between 1991 and 2003, founder

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, served as the

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and

Hani Shukrallah Shukrallah by el-Hamalawy, June 2010 Hani Shukrallah (also spelled ''Hany''; ar, هاني شكر الله; 1950 – 5 May 2019) was an Egyptian journalist and political analyst. He was editor-in-chief of ''Al-Ahram Weekly'' between 1991 and 200 ...

as managing editor and co-founder

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as deputy editor-in-chief. After Hosni's death in 2003, Shukrallah succeeded him as acting editor. In 2005 Egypt's Shura Council appointed Assem El-Qersh as the paper's editor-in-chief, replacing Shukrallah. In June 2014, Galal Nassar was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. The circulation of the magazine in 2000 was 50,000 copies.

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History and profile

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