Al-Ahram Hebdo

Al Ahram Hebdo
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

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.

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