1. Al-Ahram founded in 1875, by two Lebanese
brothers, Beshara Takla and
Saleem Takla, who were living at that time in
Alexandria. It began as a weekly newspaper
published every Saturday, but two months after the
newspaper was founded, the Takla brothers turned it
into a daily newspaper. The newspaper was
distributed in Egypt and the Levant. In November
,1899

2. Given the large dialectal variety of the Arabic
language, Al-Ahram is widely considered an
influential source of writing style in Arabic. In
1950 described Al-Ahram as being to the Arabic-
reading public within its area of distribution,
In addition to the main edition published in
Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-
language editions, one geared to the Arab World
and the other aimed at an international
audience, as well as editions in English and
. French

3. Al-Ahram daily is the flagship of what is now
the Al-Ahram publishing house, the largest in
Egypt Al-Ahram's headquarters is in Boulaq,
.Cairo

4. Al-Ahram is owned by the Al-Ahram
Foundation and is one of the largest circulating
newspapers in the world.
The Egyptian government owns a controlling
share of the stocks of the paper and appoints
the editors. As appointees of the state, little
censorship is exercised over them
Al-Ahram has largely ignored and trivialized
the opposition parties