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Zahi Hawass   No archaeological discovery has enjoyed attention such as the discovery of the granite sarcophagus weighing about 30 tons found under a house in Alexandria. I would like to point out that hundreds of foreign and Egyptian journalists have spoken to me about this subject. Most of the …

Editorial   Terrorists dealt another heavy, painful blow to Egyptians on Friday, brutally murdering innocent civilians who had just finished a visit to a famous Christian monastery in the desert of Minya in southern Egypt. This was not the first crime cowardly targeting Egypt’s Christians, seeing them as an easy, …

Defusing Egypt’s ticking population bomb is the key to a much brighter future for all Egyptians, writes Hany Ghoraba   Hany Ghoraba In its efforts to boost the Egyptian economy to meet the nation’s aspirations for a place among the world’s economic powerhouses the government has been entirely focused on economic …

Farah Al-Akkad describes efforts to help preserve the coastal city of Alexandria from challenges threatening its future   Farah Al-Akkad   Whatever happened to Alexandria’s legendary corniche, once described as the most splendid in the world? Today one cannot pass along the corniche without taking in major construction sites, concrete blocks, …

Nahed Nasr discovered a pretty persuasive attempt at resurrecting ancient Egypt   Nahed Nasr   The fourth Thoth Festival opened on 26 October at New Hermopolis, a non-profit development founded by Mervat Abdel-Nasser in the town of Tuna Al-Gebel, the site of the necropolis of Khmun (aka Hermopolis Magna). This was …

New ways must be found to curb the growth in hate speech towards Egypt’s Christians in the wake of last week’s bus attack in Minya, writes Hany Ghoraba Hany Ghoraba   The whole Egyptian nation was shocked to see last week’s horrific attack on a bus carrying Copts on its way …

Dina Ezzat and photographer Sherif Sonbol explore 1,000 years of Cairo’s Islamic history    Dina Ezzat – Al-Ahram Weekly   “What is left of the rule of the Fatimid Dynasty that built this city back in the 10th century is essentially the buildings where religion was either observed or taught, such as mosques …

Editorial – Al-Ahram Weekly   President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi’s visit to Germany this week reflects growing relations between the two countries on both the political and economic levels. The president was invited to Berlin to take part in the second summit that stemmed from the German initiative for partnership with the …

Almost 50 per cent of the world’s languages are now threatened by extinction, necessitating the introduction of urgent measures to protect them, writes Awatef Abdel-Rahman   Awatef Abdel-Rahman   When a language dies, its death is final. The rapid extinction of languages has serious repercussions for human history. It results in the impoverishment of …

This year’s World Youth Forum is bringing together young Arab men and women with striking visions for the future, writes Amina Khairy   Amina Khairy – Al-Ahram Online  The problems and solutions, headaches and cures, fears and hopes of millions of young people throughout the Arab world are still under the world’s …