Al-Ahram Hebdo
Type | Weekly newspaper |
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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 |
Al-Ahram Hebdo is a French-language weekly newspaper in Egypt.
History and profile
Al Ahram Hebdo was established in 1994 by the Al Ahram publishing house which also owns Al-Ahram newspaper, an English-language version, and Al Ahram Weekly. The paper which is published weekly is based in Cairo.
Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy was the first of Al-Ahram Hebdo editors-in-chief. Hisham Mourad also served as editor-in-chief. He was appointed to the post in January 2011. In June 2014, Fouad Mansour who was the managing editor of the magazine since 2003, was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. 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.