Al-Ahram

Al-Ahram ('The Pyramids') is Egypt's most widely circulated daily newspaper and long-regarded as the country's newspaper of record, published from Cairo by the state-affiliated Al-Ahram Foundation.

The paper was founded in Alexandria in 1875 by Lebanese Christian brothers Salim and Beshara Takla, beginning as a weekly before converting to a daily in 1881; operations moved to Cairo in 1899. President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Egyptian press in 1960, after which Al-Ahram became closely associated with the government, particularly under longtime editor-in-chief Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, who led the paper from 1957 to 1974. The paper marked its 150th anniversary in 2025-2026.

Al-Ahram publishes daily Arabic editions along with weekly English and French editions and pan-Arab and international Arabic editions, and has served as a literary venue for major Arab writers including Naguib Mahfouz and Taha Hussein. Its publishing house, the largest in Egypt, also produces books and periodicals. A full digital archive of the paper from its earliest issues is maintained through the East View Global Press Archive in partnership with Stanford Libraries and the Hoover Institution.

The paper is available in print by subscription and newsstand sale across Egypt and the Arab world, with current news additionally published on Al-Ahram's Arabic and English websites; historical issues are accessible to researchers through the East View/Hoover Institution digital archive.