- Al-Ahram
Al-Ahram (
Arabic : الأهرام, literally "The Pyramids"), founded in 1875, is one of the most widely circulatingEgypt ian daily newspapers, and the second oldest after "Al-Waqae'a Al-Masreya " ('The Egyptian Events'), founded in 1828.Al-Ahram's headquarters is in
Boulaq ,Cairo , its content is controlled by the Egyptian Ministry of Information, but despite this its opinion section is well regarded.It has two foreign language versions, the English "
Al-Ahram Weekly " (founded in 1991) and the French "Al-Ahram Hebdo".Beginnings
The newspaper was founded by two Syrian brothers Beshara and Saleem Teqla who were living at that time in
Alexandria . In the beginning, "Al-Ahram" was published as a weekly newspaper on every Saturday..The newspaper was distributed in Egypt and the
Levant . Two months after the newspaper was founded, the Teqla brothers decided to make it a daily newspaper. In November 1899, "Al-Ahram" 's headquarters was moved toCairo .Some of the early writers in this newspaper were the religious scholars
Muhammad Abduh andJamal al-Din al-Afghani .Notable writers
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Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), awarded the 1988Nobel Prize in Literature
*Salama Moussa سلامة موسى
*Taha Hussein طه حسين
*Yusuf Idris
*Ihsan Abdel Quddous إحسان عبد القدوس
*Mohammad Hassanein Heykal محمد حسنين هيكل
*Edward Said إدوارد وديع سعيد
*Hamid Dabashi حمید دباشی
*Ahdaf Soueif
*Azmi Bishara
*Eduard Said
*Joseph Massad
*Khalid Amayreh
*Shahid Alam External links
* [http://www.ahram.org.eg/ Al-Ahram]
* [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/ Al-Ahram Weekly]
* [http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/ Al-Ahram Hebdo]
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