Al Ahram Al Iktisadi
Al Ahram Al Iktisadi (Arabic ‏الأهرام الإقتصادي) is an Arabic language weekly business magazine headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. It is one of the publications produced by Al Ahram Organisation and has several sister publications, including "Al Ahram Weekly", "Al Siyassa Al Dawliya", "Al Ahram Al Arabi" and "Al Ahram" among others. History and profile. "Al Ahram Al Iktisadi" was designed based on the British business magazine "The Economist" and was first published in Cairo in August 1958. It is published by the state-owned Al Ahram Organisation on a weekly basis. The magazine has issued several  supplements. The target audience is primarily government officials and academics dealing with finance and economics. Editors. At the beginning of the 1980s the editor-in-chief was Lutfi Abdul Azim. Shahira El Rafei served as the managing editor of "Al Ahram Al Iktisadi". In September 2020 Khalifa Adham Ahmed Khalil was appointed the editor-in-chief of the magazine. A woman activist, Sana Al Misri, was working for the magazine in the 1980s, but she was fired due to her participation in the protests against Israel near to the Israeli embassy in Giza in October 1985. Although she won the  case later, she did not continue her work at "Al Ahram Al Iktisadi". Content and circulation. Although the magazine has been published a state-owned company and focused on economic affairs, it may adopt a critical approach against some policies and deal with political issues. For instance, in October and November 1982 the magazine criticized the US aid activities arguing that these were a sort of American invasion creating a shadow government. Also, in November 1982 the magazine attacked the advertisements about the Islamic investment companies. As of 2013 "Al Ahram Al Iktisadi" sold nearly 30,000 copies. Al Ahram Al