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 Maryanne, who owns Al Ahram these 
days? 
  
For everybody's information, when I 
went 
through college in the 70's, Al Ahram 
was 
the most famous publication in the 
Near 
East.  It was like a NY Times or 
Washington 
Post or The Times of London in that it 
had 
regional importance, and not just 
Egypt/Cairo-local influence. 
  
I just plain don't remember whether 
it 
had a reputation for fairness and 
accuracy 
like that of the US publications 
(under 
Nassir, one would tend to doubt it), 
only 
that, if you were going to subscribe 
to 
one Near Eastern periodical, Al 
Ahram 
would have been it. 
  
Linda B. Merims 
Massachusetts, USA 
  
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