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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Opposition TV channels in Turkey are giving Sisi’s regime a major headache
The number of attacks on Turkey and President Erdogan in the Egyptian media have declined since indications of reconciliation between Ankara and Cairo have started to emerge. This is a positive step that will certainly be followed by more with regard to the Egyptian opposition TV channels that broadcast...
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Revived kinship between Egypt and Turkey will be positive for the region
Every Muslim in the world wishes to see the differences between Muslim countries get resolved, their relations restored, and the wounds in the Muslim body politic healed in order to return to being a strong structure able to face the challenges it faces. This will help the Ummah around...
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The visit of Pope Francis to Iraq raises many questions
Pope Francis visited Iraq last week in what is said to have been the first trip of its kind. It came at a time of exceptionally difficult circumstances which Iraq has been going through since the 2003 US invasion, with ongoing unrest and killing. And with Daesh remnants still...
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The Khashoggi killing blocks the path to the throne for Bin Salman
The Biden administration has finally authorised the Director of National Intelligence in Washington to release a report about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Donald Trump blocked its release, challenged Congress and failed to implement the law proposed in this regard. In doing so, he helped Saudi Arabia’s...
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Palestine is on my mind — why is Hamas taking part in the elections?
It is difficult for me, and anyone who loves Palestine and hopes that it will return as an Islamic nation from the river to the sea, to see the only credible resistance movement in the Palestinian territories throwing itself towards oblivion. Hamas is wasting the years of struggle it...
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How many Loujain Al-Hathlouls are there in the Arab world?
Let me make it clear that I am against injustice, oppression and arbitrary arrests for political purposes. I also favour civic freedoms for citizens, regardless of their beliefs or identity, as well as freedom of thought and expression. Hence, I welcomed the release of Saudi Arabian citizen and human...
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A blow to the counter-revolutions axis
The great surprise occurred in Libya, and the counter-revolution was dealt a painful blow. Its men were defeated in the Libyan elections, which were held in Geneva under the auspices of the UN, and contrary to all expectations, the list of Aguila Saleh, Libyan parliament speaker close to General...
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Palestine and the election game (Part 3)
Read part 1 here and part 2 here There is no doubt that Hamas has a major dilemma, but the solution does not involve escaping by playing the last card in its hand. If its participation in the 2006 election was a big mistake, then participating in the upcoming elections is...
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Palestine and the election game (Part 2)
Read part 1 here After the terrible defeat of the Six-Day War in June 1967, the Egyptians woke from the shock and, typically, mocked the tragedy in their jokes. They did this as a release for their anger. One well-known humorous incident at the time saw broadcaster Amal Fahmy interviewing King...
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Palestine and the election game (Part 1)
Read part 2 here The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas was adamant that he was cancelling security coordination with the occupation state, pulling out of the Oslo Accords and returning to national struggle and resistance to liberate Palestine. Then Joe Biden became the likely winner of the US...
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Trump's parting gift to Israel
Donald Trump has used his four years as US president to demonstrate his deep commitment to the Zionist state of Israel. He has striven to enable Israel to take control of occupied Palestine with an iron grip, and given it the upper hand in the region. No other US...
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Did Trump burn himself or was it the deep state?
There is no doubt that the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of President Donald Trump, which was witnessed live across the world, was unprecedented in the most powerful country in the world. The United States of America is a country of institutions, law and...
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If Israel wasn’t there, the US would have to invent it to protect its interests
The Arab rulers are holding their breath, apprehensive of the day that Joe Biden arrives in the White House to the extent that they probably wish that 20 January never comes or a major incident delays or even blocks the US President-elect from taking office. Hence, their pet journalists...
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The normalisation plague is deadlier than the Covid-19 pandemic
The year 2020 is almost history, but its incidents and events are not only likely to continue, but also escalate. There are implications regionally and internationally. There is still no solution for the conflict in Libya, for example. Negotiations have stalled, despite the ceasefire, and coup leader Khalifa Haftar has...
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It is only a decade since the Arab Spring, but feels much longer
Ten years have passed since the outbreak of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, after Mohamed Bouazizi, a struggling young man who sold vegetables from his street cart, set himself on fire in protest at police injustice under the tyrannical regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The people rose up in...
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It’s ironic that the head of Al-Quds Committee has normalised links with Jerusalem’s occupier
As Arab rulers continue to rush towards Israel and cosy up to its leaders, the occupation state continues to usurp the Arab land of Palestine. Following the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan, King Mohammed VI of Morocco is jumping on the normalisation bandwagon driven by Donald Trump, who wants to...
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Conflict and reconciliation to order should be off the agenda
On 5 June 2017, the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated 1967 Six Day War, Saudi Arabia announced that it was severing ties with Qatar. A few minutes later, the UAE did the same, followed by Bahrain and then Egypt. These four countries announced a boycott and siege against Qatar...
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You cannot separate Bin Salman’s betrayal from Bin Ramadan’s
Uncle Sam always exposes his agents, pulling them into his bed in the dark of night, then exposing them in the bright light of day. That is the nature of the dirty tricks played by shadowy government agencies in Washington and their allies. Hence, it was no great surprise that...
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Abbas’ humiliating climb down was made on Palestinian ‘Independence Day’
It was no surprise to see the Palestinian Authority return to its security coordination with the Israeli occupation forces. What was surprising, though, was that some people were surprised that the PA president, whose term of office ended years ago, escalated his threats to end security coordination with Israel,...
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Incomplete victory for Azerbaijan, crushing defeat for Armenia, big win for Russia
There is no doubt that Russia under Vladimir Putin is not the weak state that it was after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The Russian president wants to restore Russia to the glory of the USSR and its geopolitical position. Its military intervention in Ukraine, through which it...
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The elections in America and the voters in the Arab world
Finally, Joe Biden was declared the president-elect of the United States of America, making him the 46th president in its history, since George Washington in 1789. This announcement was made after an exciting race that witnessed the highest participation rate in more than a century, in which President Donald...
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Macron's real crisis has more to do with French values than Islam (Part 2)
There is no doubt that Emmanuel Macron is in a crisis with his racist self, first and foremost, followed by a crisis with his people. The former is deep rooted. When he first stood for the presidency he was forced to address French Muslims and cosy up to them...
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Macron's real crisis has more to do with French values than Islam
Emmanuel Macron’s fierce campaign against Islam and Muslims has not come out of nowhere. It is the product of racism rooted deep within the French psyche. It is a crisis of French values not of Islam. As a supposedly secular state, France does not want to recognise Islam as a...
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If Berri’s announcement about negotiations with Israel isn’t normalisation, what is it?
Suddenly and without prior notice, Nabih Berri announced recently that Lebanon and Israel have reached an agreement under American auspices to start talks about disputed borders. The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament is also the head of the Amal Movement, which raises the flag of resistance against the Zionist...