By Wikipedia An Egyptian man named his firstborn daughter "Facebook," in gratitude for the uprising in Egypt, Al-Ahram reported on Sunday. "The girl's family,…
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Al-Ahram, founded in 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after Al-Waqae'a Al-Masreya ("The Egyptian Events", founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government. Given the large dialectical variety of the Arabic language, Al-Ahram is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described Al-Ahram as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What the London Times is to Englishmen and the New York Times to Americans. " In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab World and the other aimed at an international audience, as well as editions in English and French.
