Al-Ahram Hebdo
{{Short description|French-language Egyptian newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Al Ahram Hebdo
| logo = Al-Ahram Hebdo.jpg
| logo_alt = The name "Hebdo Al-Ahram", and behind it are red Egyptian pyramids
| image = Al Ahram Hebdo front page.jpg
| caption = Al-Ahram Hebdo print edition on April{{ndash}}May 2022
| type = Weekly newspaper
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| publisher = Al Ahram publishing house
| editor =
| chiefeditor = Fouad Mansour
| assoceditor =
| maneditor =
| newseditor = Chérif Soliman
| managingeditordesign =
| campuseditor =
| campuschief =
| opeditor =
| sportseditor =
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1994}}
| political =
| language = French
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| headquarters = Cairo
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| ISSN = 1110-5062
| oclc = 32526243
| website = [http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/ Al-Ahram Hebdo]
}}
Al-Ahram Hebdo is a French-language weekly newspaper in Egypt.{{cite web|title=Egypt|url=http://www.worldpress.org/newspapers/MIDEAST/Egypt.cfm|work=World Press|accessdate=29 September 2013}} In addition to their print and online editions, the newspaper runs Ahraminfo, which provides daily news updates.
History and profile
Al Ahram Hebdo was established in 1994[http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/media-landscape/media-landscape-4 Media Landscape] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006135353/http://www.menassat.com/?q=en%2Fmedia-landscape%2Fmedia-landscape-4 |date=6 October 2014 }} Menassat. Retrieved 14 February 2014. by the Al Ahram publishing house which also owns Al-Ahram newspaper, an English-language version, and Al Ahram Weekly.{{cite web|title=Al Ahram Newspaper|url=http://www.allied-media.com/Arab-American/alahram.htm|work=Allied Media|accessdate=14 February 2014}} The paper which is published weekly{{cite book|author=Mohamed El Bendary|title=The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_nJ7ZcmcCkC&pg=PA80|year=2010|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-2431-4|page=80}} is based in Cairo.[http://www.yellowpages.com.eg/profile/OTM3MDU=/Al-Ahram-Hebdo.html Al Ahram Hebdo] Yellow Pages. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo editors-in-chief.{{cite book|author=Dietrich Jung|title=The Middle East and Palestine: Global Politics and Regional Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlHHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|year=2004|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4039-8212-4|page=79}}{{cite journal|title=Censorship and social realism at the Cairo Book Fair|journal=Arab Media and Society|date=2008|url=http://www.arabmediasociety.com/articles/downloads/20080510204655_AMS_Ingrid_Wassmann.pdf|accessdate=14 February 2014|author=Ingrid Wassmann|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172916/http://www.arabmediasociety.com/articles/downloads/20080510204655_AMS_Ingrid_Wassmann.pdf|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}} Hisham Mourad also served as editor-in-chief. He was appointed to the post in January 2011.{{cite news|author1=Safaa Abdoun|author2=Marwa Al A'asar|title=Shoura Council reshuffles editors of state papers, magazines|url=http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2011/01/18/shoura-council-reshuffles-editors-of-state-papers-magazines/|work=Daily News Egypt|date=18 January 2011|location=Cairo}} In June 2014, Fouad Mansour who was the managing editor of the magazine since 2003, was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.{{cite news|title=Egypt: Press Council Appoints Editors of State-Owned Newspapers|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201406290012.html|work=Aswat Masriya|date=28 June 2014|location=Cairo}} Fouad Mansour co-founded Ahram Online, Egypt biggest English language news website, with veteran Egyptian journalist and writer Hani Shukrallah in 2010. [https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/386312/Egypt/Politics-/AlAhram-honours-former-Ahram-Hebdo,-Ahram-Online-e.aspx]
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.{{cite web|title=Egyptian Journalist Awarded First Samir Kassir Award |url=http://www.arabpressnetwork.org/articlesv2.php?id=764 |publisher=The Arab Press Network |date=22 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910200011/http://www.arabpressnetwork.org/articlesv2.php?id=764 |archivedate=10 September 2014 }}
In 2023, the newspaper launched the daily digital news service Ahraminfo, to complement the print edition and website.{{Cite web |last=Egypt |first=Daily News |date=2023-12-07 |title=Al-Ahram Hebdo launches new daily digital news service: ahraminfo |url=https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2023/12/07/al-ahram-hebdo-launches-new-daily-digital-news-service-al-ahram-info/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Dailynewsegypt |language=en-US}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/Al-Ahram Hebdo] {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:1994 establishments in Egypt
Category:French-language newspapers published in Egypt
Category:Newspapers published in Cairo