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Al-Ahram ( Arabic: الأهرام; lit. 'The Pyramids' ), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya ( The Egyptian Events, founded 1828). [2] It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt.
Youm7 ( Arabic: اليوم السابع, IPA: [iljoːm issaːbiʕ], meaning The Seventh Day) is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper. It was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since May 2011. [2] It is published in Arabic. The paper was twice selected by Forbes Middle East as having the most ...
Akhbar el-Yom was founded by the Amin brothers, Mustafa Amin and Ali Amin, on 6 November 1944. [2] The paper is released weekly on Saturdays. The newspaper is owned by the Shura Council and considered a semi-official newspaper. It has a daily edition called al-Akhbar, which was also established by the Amin brothers. [2]
Egypt has the largest Muslim population in the Arab world, and the sixth world's largest Muslim population, and home for (5%) of the world's Muslim population. Egypt also has the largest Christian population in the Middle East and North Africa. Egypt is a predominantly Sunni Muslim country with Islam as its state religion. The percentage of ...
The term Egyptian Arabic is usually used synonymously with " Cairene Arabic ", which is technically a dialect of Egyptian Arabic. The country's native name, مصر Maṣr, is often used locally to refer to Cairo itself. As is the case with Parisian French, Cairene Arabic is by far the most prevalent dialect in the country.
The number of Arabic newspapers in Egypt was about 200 in 1938. There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, [1] such as Turkish , French and English . [2] By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. [1]
Egyptians speak a continuum of dialects. The predominant dialect in Egypt is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic or Masri / Masry ( مصرى Egyptian ), which is the vernacular language. [13] Literary Arabic is the official language [14] and the most widely written. The Coptic language is used primarily by Egyptian Copts and it is the liturgical ...
acud .eg. The New Administrative Capital ( NAC) [1] [2] ( Arabic: العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, romanized : al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Gadīda ), is a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction since 2015. [3]