Al-Ahram Hebdo is a French-language weekly newspaper in Egypt.[1]
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Al Ahram publishing house |
| Editor-in-chief | Fouad Mansour |
| News editor | Chérif Soliman |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| ISSN | 1110-5062 |
| OCLC number | 32526243 |
| Website | Al-Ahram Hebdo |
History and profile
editAl Ahram Hebdo was established in 1994[2] by the Al Ahram publishing house which also owns Al-Ahram newspaper, an English-language version, and Al Ahram Weekly.[3] The paper which is published weekly[4] is based in Cairo.[5]
Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo editors-in-chief.[6][7] Hisham Mourad also served as editor-in-chief. He was appointed to the post in January 2011.[8] In June 2014, Fouad Mansour who was the managing editor of the magazine since 2003, was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly.[9] Fouad Mansour co-founded Ahram Online, Egypt biggest English language news website, with veteran Egyptian journalist and writer Hani Shukrallah in 2010. [1]
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.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Egypt". World Press. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Media Landscape Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine Menassat. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ "Al Ahram Newspaper". Allied Media. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ Mohamed El Bendary (2010). The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and International Events. Lexington Books. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7391-2431-4.
- ^ Al Ahram Hebdo Yellow Pages. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ Dietrich Jung (2004). The Middle East and Palestine: Global Politics and Regional Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-4039-8212-4.
- ^ Ingrid Wassmann (2008). "Censorship and social realism at the Cairo Book Fair" (PDF). Arab Media and Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ Safaa Abdoun; Marwa Al A'asar (18 January 2011). "Shoura Council reshuffles editors of state papers, magazines". Daily News Egypt. Cairo.
- ^ "Egypt: Press Council Appoints Editors of State-Owned Newspapers". Aswat Masriya. Cairo. 28 June 2014.
- ^ "Egyptian Journalist Awarded First Samir Kassir Award". The Arab Press Network. 22 June 2006. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
External links
edit- Al-Ahram Hebdo (in French)
