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At the historic AL-AHRAM News Paper

Y O U R J O U R N E Y S T A R T S T O D A Y

Editor-in-Chief of Al-Ahram Mr. Alaa Thabet (6th fr om right) gives the editor-in-chief of ELITE Ramy M agdy a Historic Souvenir of The First
Issue of AlAhram 1876 at the presence of Mr. Mohsen Abdel Aziz supervisor of the Friday issue (far rig ht) and a number of ELITE editors

We finished our meeting with the chief editor to start
our tour between the corridors of the newspaper, to
start with the gallery, which includes different
pictures of public figures and artists who had some
experience with the newspaper and its editors,
including Tewfik al-Hakim, Naguib Mahfouz, Umm
Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Abdel Halim
Hafez and many others.
One of the highlights was a photo taken by the late
Cairo : Mayar Tarek and Farah Ezzeldin
President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his deputy, Anwar

Al-Sadat . Nasser who went to the office of the editor
Passing through lots of challenges and
after finishing the tour and sat on the Chief Editor
achieving many goals for 144 years, Al-
desk, and said that this was the place where he really
Ahram newspaper became one of the most
wanted to work for.
important newspapers in the world as many
We have also seen the Editors section where editors
people around the world are reading it, despite
are working on various news and stories.
the diveritye in their language and culture.
In addition to its Arabic version, AlAhram Of course, we did not miss the opportunity to see the
issues an English version of "Al-Ahram largest printing machine in the Middle East, which
Weekly" and the French version "Al-Ahram not only prints Al-Ahram newspaper, but most of
Hebdo" in many other prints that made Ahram Egypt's newspapers, such as Al-Shorouk, Al-Masry
on the throne of press in Egypt.
Al-Youm and others.
The tour started from the Office of the Editor
This three-floors printing machine where the paper
in Chief “Mr.Alaa Thabet ”, he got the position
passes every step of its manufacturing process, from a
since 2011. Thabet stressed an important point
set of white papers in large rollers, through the ink
that there is no newspaper that is absolutely
process and individual papers in a certain way to be
independent, each news paper has a
printed on, to cut and bend, to come out in the form
commitment to something and that the
that we read and see each day.
newspaper Al-Ahram follows the Egyptian
In this regard, Thabit devoted exclusive news to
state first and last.
ELITE ; that steps are already being taken to make an
Al-Ahram newspaper employs more than 1000
agreement in the coming period between Cairo
editors in different regions all over the world, University and Al-Ahram newspaper to conduct
THE PARISIAN SIDE STREET
covering the news first-hand so that the citizen
feels like at the heart of the event and does not journalistic training for students in various
departments of economics, political science and
miss the smallest and finest details, but lives it
masscommunication.
moment by moment.
The visit of ELITE to Al-Ahram came at the right
Thabet also gave ELITE TEAM during the
time to hone ELITE with new skills and support the
visit the first edition published by Al-Ahram
unique character and distinctive luster of ELITE.
newspaper in 1876, to be a repertoire of pride
Good luck ELITE in its new version.
in the magazine and begin in the footsteps of

the great Alahram.
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