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
