Magdi Yacoub was born into a Coptic Christian family on 16 November 1935 in Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt. He studied at Cairo…

Djamila Bouhired is a nationalist and guerrilla fighter who opposed French colonial rule in Algeria. She was born in 1935 to a Tunisian…

In 1988, a special banquet was held in celebration of Asharq Al-Awsat’s founding. During the proceedings, British minister David Mellor gave a speech…

This month Majalla is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The magazine was founded on February 16, 1980, by publishers Hisham and Muhammad Ali Hafez…

Early Life and Education Elyes Fakhfakh was born in the Tunisian capital of Tunis in 1972. He would then attend the…

The UK Government has announced its post-Brexit “points-based immigration system”. The new system will keep the UK open to highly skilled workers…

Zhou Qunfei was born in 1970 in Xiangxiang a city situated in the largely rural province of Hunan. She was born to a poor…

The final stretch of Syria’s nine-year-old civil war in the northwestern province of Idlib is experiencing a deepening humanitarian crisis as…

  The Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo paid tribute to Ali El-Samman (1929‒2017) — an Egyptian statesman, a…

Zeina Akar was born in Koura, Lebanon. She a BS degree in Social Sciences in Marketing/Management from the Lebanese American University…