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Al-Ahram, (ian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' Al-Waqae'a Al-Masreya '' ('The Egyptian Events'), founded in 1828.

Al-Ahram's headquarters is in Cairo , its content is controlled by the Egyptian Ministry of Information, but despite this its opinion section is well regarded.

It has two foreign language versions, the English '' Al-Ahram Weekly '', (founded in 1991, and the French ''Al-Ahram Hebdo''.


BEGINNINGS


The newspaper was founded by two Syrian brothers Beshara and Saleem Teqla who were living at that time in Alexandria . In the beginning, Al-Ahram was published as a weekly newspaper on every Saturday..

The newspaper was distributed in Egypt and the Levant . Two months after the newspaper was founded, the Teqla brothers decided to make it a daily newspaper. In November 1899, Al-Ahram's headquarter was moved to Cairo .

Some of the early writers in this newspaper were the religious scholars Muhammad Abduh and Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani .


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