''Al-Ahram Hebdo'' is a
French-language
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weekly newspaper in
Egypt.
History and profile
''Al Ahram Hebdo'' was established in 1994 by the Al Ahram publishing house which also owns ''
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, an
English-language
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version, and ''
Al Ahram Weekly''. The paper which is published weekly is based in
Cairo.
Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo
editors-in-chief. 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
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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 p ...
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