Al-Ahram Weekly - Opinion

A Turkish détente?

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

The troubled region might be heading towards some degree of stability after more than a decade of conflicts and civil ...

Combating a new banking crisis

Mahmoud Mohieldin

True to the rule that “when it rains it pours,” another banking crisis has come on top of the multiple global ...

Arab national security in a turbulent world

Abdel-Moneim Al-Mashat

The Russian-Ukrainian war has brought up a question that was earlier raised during the world financial crisis of 2008, ...

What is expected of Iran

Khaled Okasha

It is important to recall the positive climate that surrounded the original talks between the US and Iran in Oman that ...

Analysis: America’s moment in the Middle East?

Ahmed Mostafa

As an old adage goes, what goes up must come down. This is also the conclusion that has been drawn by many analysts regarding ...

Cautious rapprochement

Hussein Haridy

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu paid a short visit to Cairo on 18 March, during which he held talks with his ...

The fall of the Silicon Valley Bank

Azza Radwan Sedky

The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the early 20th century took place in 2008 with the outbreak ...

The digital solution to corruption

Bjorn Lomborg

Corruption is an enormous, global challenge, likely costing more than $1 trillion annually, or $120 for every person ...

Point-blank: Sudan and sanctions

Mohamed Salmawy

Is the US toying with Sudan, with one hand lifting some of the sanctions it imposed two decades ago in relation to the ...

The Chinese role

Abdel-Moneim Said

When this goes to print, two weeks will have passed since Saudi Arabia and Iran signed a Chinese-brokered agreement to ...

A promising regional realignment

Hussein Haridy

The world heard that Chinese diplomacy had succeeded in bringing Saudi Arabia and Iran together around a negotiating ...

No simple solution

Abdel-Moneim Said

It is commonly agreed and seemingly fated that the war in Ukraine will last for another year, perhaps longer. Last year ...

A welcome shift

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

There were no leaks ahead of the announcement that negotiations were taking place, or that a deal between the two influential ...

Women and entrepreneurship

Eman Ragab

To mark International Women’s Day this year, many international organisations turned the spotlight on female entrepreneurs ...

Point-blank :Israel’s many extremists

Mohamed Salmawy

We often hear that the current Israeli cabinet is the most extremist government in Isreal’s history and that, with ...