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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Ramadan in the time of Coronavirus
There is no doubt that Ramadan this year is different from previous years. The usual sense of communal spirituality is absent and its joy is lost amid the artificial panic surrounding the coronavirus Covid-19. Social distancing has imposed the closure of mosques including, most importantly, Al-Masjid Al-Haram in Makkah....
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The world’s tyrants do not want Covid-19 to disappear
The coronavirus Covid-19 has achieved what tyrants haven’t been able to by spreading fear and panic around the whole world, encompassing all creeds and ethnicities. The virus does not discriminate between a Muslim and a Christian, black or white, rich or poor, prince or pauper; everyone is the same...
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Did the coronavirus’ message reach global titans?
Some have compared what the coronavirus caused in the world to a mini version of the Day of Judgement, where people flee from their brothers, mothers, fathers, partners, children and the community that shelters him. Those infected by coronavirus are isolated far from everyone and people run away from...
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Coronavirus the Egyptian way
At a time when all countries of the world announced the coronavirus and took the necessary precautions to confront it, and the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, Egypt continued to deny the virus’ spread in the country and covered up the deaths resulting from it. Instead, it...
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All other issues have been locked away by the Covid-19 key
A frequently heard song at this time of year has the line, “It is spring time and the weather is lovely, let’s not discuss serious issues.” It was written by the Egyptian poet Salah Jaheen, who was well-known for his enthusiastic nationalistic poems during Gamal Abdel Nasser’s presidency. The...
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The world is not going back to what it was before the coronavirus outbreak
A microscopic virus has shaken the entire world. It may even change its maps, geography and centres of power, shifting from one country to another in the blink of an eye. Some countries might collapse and others will be created, while empires fade and others emerge. We are still...
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Despotic leaders are more deadly than the coronavirus
I am in no way belittling the gravity of the coronavirus which the World Health Organisation classed as a pandemic, however, people have been intimidated by this virus and the news spreading with it. There have been many conspiracies about how it began, the most prominent of which is...
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Erdogan and Putin huffed and puffed, then agreed not to disagree
The whole world waited for the meeting of Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, and hoped for positive results, especially after the start of Operation Spring Shield and its victories against the Syrian regime. The operation dazzled us with the development of Turkish weapons and their accuracy. This...
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Mubarak may have died, but his state hasn’t
The tyrant Hosni Mubarak may have stopped breathing on 26 February, but he actually “died” on 11 February, 2011 when the Egyptian people overthrew him in the great 25 January Revolution. He was buried nine years later, during which time he experienced a small dose of the humiliation and...
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Hamas is a beacon of hope in the Arab nation
The thirty-second anniversary of the founding of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, known by its acronym Hamas, has passed without much fanfare, apart from a festival in the Gaza Strip at which officials shared enthusiastic speeches. The event ended leaving very little trace, and was ignored by most media...
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The Syrian regime and its Russian allies are like a pack of hyenas attacking Idlib
For nearly two years, Idlib province in Syria has been subjected to fierce attacks by the forces of the butcher Bashar Al-Assad and the criminal Vladimir Putin. The Syrian regime and its Russian allies are like a pack of hyenas, resulting in tens of thousands of Idlib’s residents being...
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Where have the Arab masses gone?
Donald Trump dropped a bombshell with his “deal of the century”, which eliminates what remains of historic Palestine and completely liquidates the Palestinian cause. The Arab countries should have risen up as one against this. The Arab masses should have taken to the streets in their millions as a...
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Opportunity of the century for Trump and Netanyahu!
We have been hearing about the “deal of the century” cooking in the Zionist-American kitchen for almost two years, as a solution to the Palestinian issue, under the auspices of Trump and his son-in-law Kushner. We are chased by this term wherever we turn, hearing about it in every...
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Egypt’s January Revolution is not just a memory
The ninth anniversary of Egypt’s 25 January Revolution has come, and one of its leaders, who stood among the other heroes, legitimate President Dr Mohamed Morsi, has gone. The people elected him to achieve the revolution’s aim and objectives, but he was ousted and basically killed by the conditions...
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Libya was present in Berlin, but the Libyans weren’t
Things went downhill after Turkey signed two agreements with Libya’s internationally-recognised Government of National Accord, one related to the delineation of the maritime borders between the two countries in the Mediterranean, and the other for military cooperation between Turkey and the GNA in Tripoli. Both agreements were based on...
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Iran has gained a lot from Soleimani’s assassination
What I expected has happened. Iran responded to the killing of its legendary General Qassem Soleimani with military strikes against US bases in Iraq. The strikes were timed to coincide with the time that Soleimani was assassinated, and during his burial. It was a weak response, living up neither...
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What’s next after Soleimani’s assassination?
There is no doubt that the assassination of Qassem Soleimani shook Iran and its proxies in four Arab countries. The man was not an ordinary military official. He led the Quds Force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was effectively the second in command in a mullah-led state...
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Anything is possible with strong leadership post-Kuala Lumpur Summit
Will the international powers allow the Muslim countries to form an alliance to advance the Islamic world on an equal footing in terms of drafting strategies and decision-making around the world? That is the challenge facing participants at the Kuala Lumpur Summit two weeks ago. We all know the answer...
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The Kuala Lumpur Summit: between a dream and a challenge
The union of Muslim countries into a single entity has been a dream that Muslims in the east and the west have had for around 100 years, ever since the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate after World War One and the distribution of its territories amongst the victorious colonial...
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There is still hope for the popular movement in Algeria
The deep state seems to have defeated the popular movement in Algeria, which was on the streets for over 40 weeks staging peaceful demonstrations calling for the ousting of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and all of his cronies. The people also demanded that none of Bouteflika’s accomplices should run...
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Palestine, and the nations’ memory
The month of November, full of painful memories, passed without many Arabs remembering that on 2 November 1917, Palestine was officially usurped with the issuance of the ill-fated Balfour Declaration and that on 29 November – the real date of the Nakba – Palestine was divided. It is, therefore, a...
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Egypt’s Press Cemetery
Throughout the history of the Egyptian press, newspapers have been filled with many major journalists from various approaches and backgrounds, such as Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad, Ibrahim Al-Mazini, Tawfik Diab, Mohamed El-Tabii, brothers Mustafa and Ali Amin, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Ahmad Baha-Eldin, Salah Hafez, Anis Mansour and many others. However...
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What roles do Iran, Saudi and UAE play in the popular uprisings in Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria
While the popular uprisings in Lebanon, Iraq, and Algeria continue despite no tangible change on the ground, this represents hope amid the darkness in which the nation has been living for decades. The people of these nations have tried hard get out of that deadly darkness; the most recent...
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Unbreakable Gaza
Without any pretext or justification, the Israeli enemy committed another crime against the Palestinian people by assassinating the military commander of Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigade in the Gaza Strip. Bahaa Abu Al-Ata and his wife were both killed as they slept in their home last week. Israel bombed their...