Al-Ahram Hebdo

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Al Ahram Hebdo
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Al-Ahram Hebdo print edition on April–May 2022
Type Weekly newspaper
PublisherAl Ahram publishing house
Editor-in-chiefFouad Mansour
News editorChérif Soliman
Founded1994;31 years ago (1994)
Language French
Headquarters Cairo
ISSN 1110-5062
OCLC number 32526243
Website Al-Ahram Hebdo

Al-Ahram Hebdo is a French-language weekly newspaper in Egypt. [1] In addition to their print and online editions, the newspaper runs Ahraminfo, which provides daily news updates.

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History and profile

Al Ahram Hebdo was established in 1994 [2] by the Al Ahram publishing house which also owns Al-Ahram newspaper, an English-language version, and Al Ahram Weekly . [3] The paper which is published weekly [4] is based in Cairo. [5]

Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo editors-in-chief. [6] [7] Hisham Mourad also served as editor-in-chief. He was appointed to the post in January 2011. [8] In June 2014, Fouad Mansour who was the managing editor of the magazine since 2003, was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. [9] 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 Prize in 2006 for an article written in Al-Ahram Hebdo, is among the founding team of the weekly. [10]

In 2023, the newspaper launched the daily digital news service Ahraminfo, to complement the print edition and website. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Egypt". World Press. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Media Landscape Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine Menassat. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Al Ahram Newspaper". Allied Media. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Mohamed El Bendary (2010). The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events. Lexington Books. p. 80. ISBN   978-0-7391-2431-4.
  5. ↑ Al Ahram Hebdo Yellow Pages. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Dietrich Jung (2004). The Middle East and Palestine: Global Politics and Regional Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 79. ISBN   978-1-4039-8212-4.
  7. ↑ Ingrid Wassmann (2008). "Censorship and social realism at the Cairo Book Fair" (PDF). Arab Media and Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  8. ↑ Safaa Abdoun; Marwa Al A'asar (18 January 2011). "Shoura Council reshuffles editors of state papers, magazines". Daily News Egypt. Cairo.
  9. ↑ "Egypt: Press Council Appoints Editors of State-Owned Newspapers". Aswat Masriya. Cairo. 28 June 2014.
  10. ↑ "Egyptian Journalist Awarded First Samir Kassir Award". The Arab Press Network. 22 June 2006. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
  11. ↑ Egypt, Daily News (7 December 2023). "Al-Ahram Hebdo launches new daily digital news service: ahraminfo". Dailynewsegypt. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
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