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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Iraqis bid sectarianism goodbye
Iraq has not known stability since the 2003 US invasion, the overthrow of the tyrant Saddam Hussein, and the entry of traitors on the back of American tanks and the division of the country on a sectarian and geographical basis by the “Interim President”, US diplomat Paul Bremer. Since...
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The Ominous Promise
When November arrives with its windy and rainy winter, a painful memory accompanies it; a memory which doomed the nation to live in a permanent winter and a permanent stormy season after which no spring comes, since the Balfour fateful promise. 2 November 1917: the day Palestine was lost....
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'All of them' against the Lebanese people
There is no doubt that the massive demonstrations that spread throughout the Lebanese cities from north to south and east to west, including all Lebanese social groups belonging to different religious and ideological backgrounds, have surprised everyone, especially the princes of the sects in Lebanon, who distribute the spoils...
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Will the Lebanese end Hariri’s era of corruption?
We may be too optimistic to hope that the massive demonstrations that have spread in all the cities of Lebanon will lead to the collapse of Hariri’s regime that has ruled the country for about 30 years. This regime was established when businessman Rafik Hariri, close to Saudi Arabia,...
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Erdogan is too late
Suddenly, the Arab League came back to life after being buried for years, unmoved by the grave events and bloody tragedies that have befallen the nation since the US invaded Iraq and presented it on a silver platter to Iran. It wasn’t brought back to life after the Russian...
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The great October victory
On every anniversary, people attack the 1973 October War and turn a great victory into a crushing defeat. Some are sick enough to let their imaginations take over and describe the war as an act agreed in advance by Egypt and Israel as directed by the US. Sometimes this...
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Egypt’s Pharaoh is trembling
He landed in his aircraft on festival day and gathered the sorcerers and masses at the airport to welcome him, in a cheap and comedic scene. He brought together sheikhs, priests, the old, the young and children who were sleepy and had no idea why they were taken there...
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The videos that shook the emperor's throne - Part 2
Read part 1 here How did the videos posted by contractor Mohamed Ali recently achieve what the Egyptian opposition TV channels based in Turkey — “the legitimacy channels” — failed to achieve in six years? How was he able, armed with nothing more than a mobile phone camera, to mobilise...
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The videos that shook the emperor’s throne – Part 1
The Egyptians were in a deep sleep for the past seven years, but have woken up to the tremors caused by videos posted on social media by a contractor and actor called Mohamed Ali. In them, he talks about the corruption of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and some army leaders;...
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Assassinating the dead!
When a tyrant is haunted in his sleep by his opponent, who he killed with his own hands, and is chased by his opponent’s ghost day and night – who he believes it coming to punish him – the tyrant runs and reaches for his weapon to shoot his...
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My heart aches for Myanmar and Kashmir; for Idlib and Aden – part 3
Read part 1 and part 2 Honestly, why should we blame the West, which claims to defend human rights, for their crimes against Muslims when the blame and all of the criminality rests with the Muslim leaders who incite Westerners against us? They encourage them with the brutal crimes that...
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My heart aches for Myanmar and Kashmir; for Idlib and Aden - part 2
Read part 1 here Populism and chauvinism have overtaken countries around the world which have elected leaders based on racist perspectives. Ever since Donald Trump’s election victory in the US, the West has started to lean to the extreme right. This extremism has reached all the way to India, where...
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‘In what state did you come Eid?’
“In what state did you come Eid? Are things the same or is there anything new?” As we welcomed Eid Al-Adha, I recalled this verse from a poem written by Abu Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi (915-965 CE). The state of our Muslim Ummah is worsening day after day, breaking our hearts and...
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Idlib is on fire, but the firefighters only make it worse
For more than four months, the Syrian province of Idlib has been subjected to heavy shelling from the forces loyal to the murderer Bashar Al-Assad and the criminal Vladimir Putin. Thousands of people have been killed under the rubble of their homes. The crimes committed in Idlib are as...
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Are the US and Iran playing the same game?
The events occurring in the Arabian/Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and other international waterways raise many questions about the seizure of some oil tankers, the bombing of others and the shooting down of aircraft. We have heard fiery threats exchanged between the US and Iran, putting the whole...
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Military coups with a revolutionary flavour!
Egypt will celebrated the 67th anniversary of the 23 July 1952 revolution tomorrow, which changed the way of life, not only for the regime in Egypt but for the entire Arab world, as it marked the beginning of successful military coups in the Arab region. This is with the...
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Did the UAE steal Sudan’s revolution?
In a previous article, I warned the Sudanese people regarding the fate of their revolution if they believed the overly nice words of the army, gave into them and became their partners. I reminded them of what happened in Egypt and how the great January 25th Revolution was lost...
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The sixth year of the Egyptian Nakba is drawing to a close
If 6 June 1967 represents an overwhelming military defeat for Egypt and the Arab nation as a whole, following which we lost land, grace and dignity, the Nakba of 30 June 2013 was the greatest and most terrible defeat in every sense. We lost the land, the homeland, identity,...
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Bahrain was a workshop of betrayal
During the rule of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid, Theodor Herzl made an offer to buy Palestine in order to move the Jews of the world there, but the Sultan rejected the offer. Last week, Herzl’s ideological grandson, Jared Kushner, went to Bahrain to ask the Arabs to sell...
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Did they really kill him?
It has often been said that President Mohamed Morsi did not die a natural death, as many insisted that he was killed. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned the way Morsi died, and said that he would raise the issue during the G20 summit. The German Foreign Ministry...
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The regime has prolonged President Morsi’s life with his death
He lived as a hero who defended the noble values of freedom, dignity and justice; he died a hero in order to preserve these values. He did not compromise on his principles, preferring prison to surrender. President Mohamed Morsi paid with his life for his steadfastness and commitment to...
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The confusion in the Middle East is being stage managed to benefit Israel
What exactly is happening in the Arab region? Events are running into each other with no end in sight. Everything is tangled and intertwined, as if there are invisible hands causing confusion and re-shuffling the cards to create conditions which will further their desires and interests. Those behind it...
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Repeated movies!
As Eid Al-Fitr was being celebrated, there were mortar shells and gunfire fired at our officers and soldiers in Sinai and screams emanating from their throats, exhausted by yelling that their ammunition had run out and that they had nothing to defend themselves with. They were exhausted by their...