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Name of Object:

First issue of Al-Ahram

Location:

Alexandria, Egypt

Holding Institution:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

 About Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

Date of Object:

5 August 1876

Description:

Al-Ahram was founded in Alexandria in 1875 by two Lebanese brothers, Bishara Takla and Salim Takla. It began as a weekly newspaper published every Saturday. Its first issue appeared on 5 August 1876. The paper was relaunched as a daily newspaper in January 1881.
Its headquarters was in Alexandria until November 1899 when it was moved to Cairo. The newspaper was distributed in Egypt and the Levant. The religious innovators Muhammad Abduh and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani were early writers of the newspaper. Upon the death of Bishara Takla, Dawud Barakat, a Lebanese journalist, was named editor of the daily in 1901.

Type of Object

Newspaper

Citation of this web page:

"First issue of Al-Ahram" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;eg;110;en

MWNF Working Number: ET1 089