Al-Ahram (Arabic: الأهرام; The Pyramids), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa’i`al-Masriya (The Egyptian Events, founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government.
Given the large dialectal 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 Times is to Englishmen and the New York Times to Americans”,however it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government.