Al-Ahram Weekly

Unilateral practices unacceptable

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

So far the project has progressed unilaterally, with the building and the filling of the dam undertaken before an agreement ...

A crossroads between heaven and hell

Abdel-Moneim Said

Evidently humans are not alone in having their faith and behaviour tested during the holy month of Ramadan. The international ...

Modern Egypt — (XXIV) The diplomat

Tarek Osman

Boutros Boutros-Ghali was one of former president Anwar Al-Sadat’s key advisers in the process leading up to the ...

Disreputable world order

Abdel-Moneim Al-Mashat

According to impartial studies, a sustainable international order rests on five pillars: a clear structure and ...

After the Saudi-Iranian agreement

Eman Ragab

The Chinese-brokered agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia that was signed several weeks ago holds the promise of returning ...

China and the new world order

Hussein Haridy

After his re-election for an unprecedented third term in office in March, Chinese President Xi Jinping made an official ...

The other pandemic

Bjorn Lomborg

In 2022, tuberculosis likely claimed 1.4 million lives, more than the total toll of Covid-19. And yet, in rich ...

Modern Egypt — (XXIII) The political writer

Tarek Osman

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal always dubbed himself a journalist. But he was also Egypt’s most influential national-security ...

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 ...

Limelight

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 ...

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Where has the magic gone?

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 ...