Ahram Quotes

However, “with the right intentions,” she has said, “misyar can serve the noble purpose of helping divorced and widowed women financially.”58 Zeinab Shahine, a professor of sociology at Egypt’s Ain Shams University, agrees. According to Al-Ahram Weekly, there are certain conditions, Shahine believes, when

This kind of thing is happening here in Al-Ahram all the time. It's very difficult to keep your hands clean. There are journalists in this building who have done just that. I know it for a fact. They get apartments. Not exactly as gifts, of course. But take that apartment for half a million: The journalist will 'buy' it for one hundred thousand, then sell it for the market price and make a huge profit.

The country's literary and intellectual luminaries were marginalized in the same way. Naguib Mahfouz's23 novels were no longer serialized in Al-Ahram. Tawfik Al-Hakeem's last two novels were published in Paris and Beirut, but not in Cairo. Ihsan Abdel Kodous, Egypt's foremost romance novelist, was branded a ‘pornographer’, and some of his publishers took it upon themselves to change the endings of some of his novels (without his knowledge) to suit the rising social conservatism.

In 1931, when Anwar was twelve, Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal on his way to London to negotiate the fate of India. The ship stopped in Port Said, whereupon Egyptian journalists besieged the ascetic leader. The correspondent for Al-Ahram marveled that Gandhi was wearing “nothing but a scrap of cloth worth five piasters, wire rim glasses worth three piasters

in March 1958, the Arab world was shocked when Egypt’s official newspaper, Al Ahram, reported a failed Saudi plot to assassinate the Arab world’s most popular leader.