Al-Ahram Weekly

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Al-Ahram Weekly
Al-Ahram Weekly logo.jpg
Categories Nasserism, anti-reform
FrequencyWeekly
Format Broadsheet
PublisherAl-Ahram Publishing House
Founded1991;33 years ago (1991)
Country Egypt
Based in Cairo
Website english.ahram.org.eg

Al-Ahram Weekly is an English-language weekly broadsheet printed by the Al-Ahram Publishing House in Cairo, Egypt.

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History and profile

Al Ahram Weekly was established in 1991 by the Al-Ahram newspaper, which also runs a French-language weekly version, Al-Ahram Hebdo .

Between 1991 and 2003, founder Hosni Guindi, served as the editor-in-chief and Hani Shukrallah as managing editor [1] and co-founder Mona Anis 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. [2]

The circulation of the magazine in 2000 was 50,000 copies. [3]

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