Al-Ahram Weekly

Regional adjustments

Abdel-Moneim Said

One question that always nagged at me over nearly half a century in the course of my career was whether the international ...

The war must stop

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

But this is unlikely to put a stop to the suffering of the Sudanese people in the capital Khartoum, as well as in Darfur ...

Threshold of the new world order?

Raouf Saad

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has confirmed what political experts and observers have been saying for a while, which ...

The Florida blueprint for America

Hussein Haridy

After returning from a foreign tour with his wife that took Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis to Japan, South Korea, Israel, ...

The Arabian Peninsula — (1) Power

Tarek Osman

Power is compelling. For decades, the states of the Arabian Peninsula have exercised a decisive sway over international ...

Point-blank: Covert wars

Mohamed Salmawy

Don’t think that the conflicts we read about in the news are the only wars going on around us or that the warring ...

Convergence of views in the Gulf

Ahmed Mustafa

Sources in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi emphasised the good relations between the two neighbouring Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia ...

Four summits on the road ahead

Hussein Haridy

Seldom has the world seen four more important summit meetings than those that took place in the span of three days from ...

Improving education

Bjorn Lomborg

One thing that taxpayers and politicians agree on practically everywhere is that more money should be spent on children’s ...

The National Dialogue on discrimination

Nevine Mossaad

Egypt’s National Dialogue commenced its proceedings last week by discussing some of the issues to be dealt with ...

The Cairo dialogues

Abdel-Moneim Said

It has been a long time since I wrote about Egypt for the readers of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, which tended to be in ...

Scent and sensibility

Lubna Abdel-Aziz

It fills the air with visions of paradise, of roses and hyacinth, of jasmine and orange blossoms, of sunny Mediterranean ...

Talking about the future

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Ten years after Egyptians took to the streets on 30 June 2013 to demand an end to the failing rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, ...

Distorting the truth

Azza Radwan Sedky

On 8 May, a press release signed by eight NGOs criticised Egypt for adding individuals they considered to be “human ...

تطوير التعليم

الشيء الوحيد الذي يتفق عليه دافعو الضرائب والسياسيون عمليًا في كل مكان هو أنه ينبغي إنفاق المزيد من الأموال على تعليم ...

Culture

Arabs on the Riviera

A summing up of the Arab contribution to the Cannes Film Festival this year.

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Arabs on the Riviera

Murder he wrote

The publication of an Arabic translation of the memoirs of British forensic scientist Sir Sydney Smith earlier this year ...

Natural born liars

It is a given that all politicians across the globe and throughout history lie. Why? Because they are human. All humans ...

Alexandria in Marseilles

Opening earlier this year for a short run at the Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MUCEM) ...

And justice for some

Justice is a complex topic that has been debated for centuries — to no avail. Throughout history, most people ...

What now, AI?

The future is here and it is shocking us to the bone. It is called AI. It touches every aspect of our lives and far ...

Of titans and kings

Functioning as both prequel and sequel to her other novels, Reem Bassiouney’s latest book – set in the years ...

Will denim ever go away?

Now that we are done with fasting and feasting as well as eggs-travaganza, our thoughts invariably turn to fashion. The ...

Limelight

‘Love, whose month is ever May’

Mayday has long been celebrated as the real beginning of spring. Hope is rekindled by nature’s rebirth, kicking ...

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‘Love, whose month is ever May’

The call to prayer

There it stands throughout the world, a visible landmark of any Islamic city. Tall, stately, beautiful, it looks ...

Where has the magic gone?

There is hardly a human on this planet who has not been impacted, in one way or another by the genius of Walt Disney. He ...

Long live the king

Now that the Hollywood award season is over and the gold has been handed to the victors, has the feasting dust settled ...

Another great Kate

Whether you spell it with a K or a C, history is replete with many Kates, both in real queens to Hollywood royalty. The ...

For the love of man

The world is dressed up in rosy red and pretty pink, awaiting the arrival of Valentine’s Day. We all know the story ...

Oranges and lemons

Here comes the jailer once again and the whole world took notice. Son of Rabbi Benzion Mileikowsky of Warsaw, Poland, ...

Waiting for Superman

At such a crisis as this in our lives, we demand a firm ground to stand on, but we demand from whom? Do we govern the ...

Headed for Egypt

There is a hurry and a flurry — a hustle and a bustle — a mysterious force driving people around the world to ...

Whatever happened to global warming?

For the past few decades it was the talk of the town — the principal talk of every town around the globe. Now ...

Special

INTERVIEW: Conflict in Sudan - ‘Life-and-death battle’

Professor of international relations at SOAS in London Gilbert Achcar explains in an interview that it would be simplistic to represent the conflict in Sudan as a proxy war.

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INTERVIEW: Conflict in Sudan - ‘Life-and-death battle’