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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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The road to Palestine runs through the barrel of a rifle
The title of this article was inspired by the poem One Road by the late Nizar Qabbani. He wrote it after the June 1967 defeat in the Six Day War; it ends with, “To Palestine, there is only one road; that passes through the barrel of a rifle.” Indeed, that...
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Where are the Gilets Jaunes in the Arab world?
The Paris demonstrations by the Gilets Jaunes — yellow vests — movement have grabbed public attention around the world, and have spread to several other European capitals. It has even been said that “Arab Spring fever” has reached Europe to sweep away governments. The two, though, are not the same....
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Jamal Khashoggi cast the largest shadow at the G20 summit
I believe that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is a murderer. I will not call him an alleged murder, say he is suspected of being involved in murder or use any other misleading phrases to cover up the issue. Even a naïve individual knows that not even the...
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Al Saud is the official sponsor of Israel
The US president, Donald Trump, removed the last fig leaf from the Saudi government as a whole, not just Mohammad Bin Salman, when, in his most recent speech, he said, “If you look at Israel, Israel would be in big trouble without Saudi Arabia. We have a very strong...
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Gaza will always remain a fortress of dignity
While the whole world is busy dealing with the case of assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and after the announcement of an internationally-mediated cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, a surprise security operation was carried out by a group of elite forces in the Zionist enemy army under the cover of...
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Sisi’s sixties-style youth group will vanish when he does
The youth conference in Egypt is one of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s creations, and has been held every year since he became President in Egypt after staging a military coup against the legitimate post-holder, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. Al-Sisi brings together a number of youth from the elite and upper...
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We are witnessing an ‘Israeli Spring’
Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports, Miri Regev, was not wrong when she said that the country is experiencing an “Israeli Spring”. This minister in particular experienced things she never even dreamt of when the doors to a supposedly Arab country, the United Arab Emirates, were opened wide to...
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Please wait your turn, everyone will get one
Last Friday the Arab world spoke Hebrew, as three Arab countries raised the Israeli flag. These flags were raised in Qatar as it hosted the Israeli gymnastics team, in the UAE where the Israeli judo team competed and in Oman, where Sultan Qaboos hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Some leave to stay
“Some leave to stay” was a tweet posted by the betrayed journalist Jamal Khashoggi on his Twitter account, where he also posted his saying, “Say your words and go!” Despite their few words, these two phrases sum up his tragic end at the hands of this era’s Hulago Khan,...
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The Egyptian army is not a SEAT, President Sisi
Every year when October comes around, the knives come out in every direction to stab the 6 October 1973 War and turn Egypt’s victory into a defeat. Sometimes, the knives come from the Nasserists, out of their hate for late President Anwar Sadat, as victory came under his command....
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Trump offended Bin Salman so he retaliated against Khashoggi
Frankly, this was not the first, and it will not be the last time that the American President Donald Trump insults the Saudi King, but we are a nation who is afflicted with forgetfulness. While the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the US, the American President said,...
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Was the mysterious man an Israeli angel or an Egyptian child prodigy? (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2, find part 1 here Uri Bar-Joseph, a former intelligence analyst in the Israeli army, published his book The Angel in 2016, in which he claimed Ashraf Marwan was a spy for the Mossad, and that he is the one who presented himself to the Israeli intelligence...
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Was Ashraf Marwan an Israeli angel or an Egyptian prodigy?
Part 1 of 2, part 2 can be found here The late journalist Moussa Sabri was the first to mockingly call Ashraf Marwan (the son-in-law of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser) a prodigy, in reference to the young age at which he accumulated his enormous wealth estimated at hundreds...
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A quarter of a century in a mirage
Last week saw the 25th anniversary of the signing of the cursed Oslo Accords that eliminated the Palestinian national constants. It replaced them with the recognition of Israel in exchange for imaginary power for the Palestinians people and false promises of establishing a Palestinian state. A quarter of a century...
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The deal of the century may be just around the corner
It has been over a year since Trump and Al-Sisi met in the White House and announced the deal of the century, without giving any details about it other than that it would work to stabilise the region, promote its development, and revive the economies of concerned countries (i.e....
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Does Al-Sisi have no shame?
When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi visits a foreign country, he flatters his hosts by saying whatever they like to hear, such as an attack on the Islamist trend, incitement against Muslims and hostility towards Islam. His latest visit was to China, where he went to the Communist Party...
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In Egypt, everyone is under arrest in one way or another
They say that revolutions devour their children, so we can imagine what the case must be with counter-revolutions based on treachery and deception. The heroes of the so-called 30 June Revolution are either detained, hiding in their homes awaiting arrest at any moment under any excuse, have fled the...
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The war on Turkey continues
The failed coup in Turkey in 2016 was not the last of the battles waged by the US against Turkey and President Erdogan in particular, as America is constantly waging battles in order to overthrow Erdogan after he moved Turkey from the American orbit which it revolved around. Erdogan...
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The day the Egyptian conscience died
The Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda massacres still linger in my mind, and my heart refuses to let them go. The five years that have passed were unable to fold them within its pages, as they were a chapter unlike any others; a chapter that is unmatched in Egyptian history....
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Are there serious initiatives in Egypt, or just more attempts to deceive us?
In the course of just four months, we have been flooded with initiatives to resolve the political crisis in Egypt, with seven reconciliation proposals on the horizon. However, they lack the ability to be implemented, as those proposing them are no more than public figures who are not in...
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The hashtag that upset the leader
If we put together an encyclopaedia of Al-Sisi’s words since he first carried out his brutal coup in July 2013, the pages would’ve been completely filled and we would need one after the other. The most recent, but of course not the last of what he said was at...
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There was nothing “glorious” about Egypt’s 1952 and 2013 “revolutions”
The official media in Egypt have celebrated what they called the “glorious 1952 revolution” despite the fact that those who carried out the “revolution”, the military, called it a military movement, not a revolution, when they issued their first statement on the radio. In fact, it was a military...
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The Egyptian Fantasia
Famous Egyptian actor, Youssef Wahbi, once said in a film that “life is nothing more than a big stage.” The phrase has since become an Egyptian saying yet, if Wahbi were still alive today, he would have said, “Egypt is nothing more than an absurd stage!” Indeed, what we are...
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Politics and football
First, we must recognise that football is a patriotic and political game, as the fans cheer for teams first and foremost based on their nationality and politics. It could also be seen as a political tool and manipulator, as the countries have funded them and spent billions of dollars...