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A Chinese tourist poses for a photo in front of the Sphinx at the Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt March 2, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Gamal Abdel Nasser House Turned to a Library

by Dalya Assem | Aug 22, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Alexandria- Visitors will soon have access to the house of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser after Dr. Nivine al-Kailani, the head of Cultural Development Fund, announced that the house will be transformed into a library after a reparation process that took...

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Egypt’s deserted pyramids of Giza. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: Goodbye Heikal!

by Yousef Al-Dayni | Aug 27, 2015 | Opinion

I wrote this article after I decided to free myself of the burden of fear that characterized many of the past attempts to criticize Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the man who contributed to the failure of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arab project more than its imaginary...

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Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama shake hands moments before the opening ceremony of the VII Americas Summit, in Panama City on April 10, 2015. (AFP Photo/Presidencia Panama)

Opinion: Cuba and the Difficult Changes Ahead

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 3, 2015 | Opinion

I recently visited Cuba, as I wanted to see this country—one that almost caused a third world war, and which along with North Korea is the world’s last remaining insular communist nation—before it finally begins to open up to the world and become like other...

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Monitors display a news program at an electronics shop in Seoul, South Korea, showing a local newspaper with a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Opinion: Media Wars

by Ali Ibrahim | Dec 24, 2014 | Opinion

The media wars in the Arab world that erupted before and after the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings are well-known to ordinary people who switch between Arab and international news channels in order to familiarize themselves with the different points of view or angles of...

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Left to right: Late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (R) walks with his cousin Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam, Gaddaf Al-Dam, Muammar Gaddafi (C) walks with former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (R) in Cairo, Egypt, in the early 1970s. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Gaddaf Al-Dam Files: Soup and Green Tea with Sadat

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Sep 23, 2014 | Features

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—As one of Muammar Gaddafi’s closest aides, Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam—also Gaddafi’s cousin—was often sent by the late dictator to put out fires abroad caused by Gaddafi’s own, often idiosyncratic, foreign policies. However, on one occasion in 1977,...