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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Egypt: The coup began on the day Mubarak stepped down
The Egyptian Military’s coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Morsi, on July 3, 2013 was organized in advance at the end of the Mubarak regime. Even as protestors signalling victory and drinking in celebration in the streets across all of Egypt the Military Council was planning for...
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The search is on for an Arab Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has managed to unify the feelings of Muslims from east to west. They have become one heart in one body, and when one limb aches, the whole body reacts with sleeplessness and fever, as our Prophet (peace be upon him) told us. Many hearts were close...
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Erdogan and the global conspiracy against him
The countdown to Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections has begun. Scheduled for 24 June, they are being held 16 months earlier than required. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised everyone by agreeing to the request by Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli for an early poll. It may well be...
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Egypt is the land of the bizarre
The streets in downtown Cairo were completely shut down and the people were banned from running their errands and attending to their businesses. Cars were also prevented from accessing the streets, while planes flew low in the sky two days before Egypt’s pharaoh was sworn in for another presidential...
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Jerusalem was already lost 50 years ago
Fifty-one years has passed since the shameful defeat of the Arabs in the 5 June 1967 war, which resulted in Israel’s occupation of Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem within six hours. This day passed silently, like any other, and the Zionist Arab media did...
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Malaysia’s political earthquake
The Islamists have progressed in elections held in three countries recently: Tunisia, Libya, and Malaysia. The latter is the biggest surprise. This was a political earthquake that overthrew the leader of a corrupt government, the now ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak. The elections reinstated Dr Mahathir Mohamad as Prime Minister....
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The disgraceful celebration in the square of the revolution on the banks of the Nile
Israel held a big celebration in the Egyptian capital Cairo before the eyes and ears of the Egyptian government. The celebration was under the auspices of the security authorities, which sponsored the celebration and opened the invitation to the public. This was a celebration commemorating the 70th anniversary of...
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The 70th anniversary of the Nakba
The month of May brings with it a painful memory for Arabs and Muslims, the anniversary of the Nakba. We remember that the day when the heart of the Arab nation was ripped out and Palestine was seized before the eyes of the entire world. The colonial powers immediately recognised,...
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Egypt drowns in an inch of rainwater
The scandal was especially outrageous because it occurred in one of Cairo’s newest and most affluent neighbourhoods. Rainwater flooded Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighbourhood four days ago, and we watched as people floated in the streets, water flooded homes, and furniture drowned in water. People were trapped while a sewage...
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Who is being targeted, Turkey or Erdogan?
Without warning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised the whole world with his decision to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, sixteen months before they were scheduled to take place next year. This confused his opponents at home and his enemies abroad, as neither are prepared,...
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The plastic summit
Speaking at the Arab Summit, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, mistakenly called ballistic missiles, plastic missiles. It would have been more accurate to call the summit itself ‘plastic’ due its emptiness and worthlessness. It was former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, who used the term ‘plastic’...
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Bin Salman’s declaration about Israel’s ‘right’ to the land is no surprise
One hundred years after the disastrous Balfour Declaration, in which the British government lent its support to the campaign for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, the adolescent aspirant to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, has affirmed this “right”. He added that the...
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The Great March of Return
How can it be that a nation which lost six martyrs in defence of their land on 30 March, 1976 has commemorated the event with the loss of 16 martyrs 42 years later, on 30 March, 2018? The astonishing Palestinian people, who have offered thousands of their people over...
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A Play in search of an audience
The play whose producers have been waiting for a long time to present to the whole world after several months of preparations was finally performed yesterday. This long period of time has been interspersed with serious events for each of those who were tempted by this play or taking...
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The militarization of the state
Since the military coup in July 2013, the leader of this coup has been working hard, with all his might, to turn Egypt into a camp for the army and make the Egyptians recruits in it, subject to control and discipline, like any other military recruit in the army....
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When money controls policy making
I really dislike the idea that having money means that you are worth something as an individual, as such a view expresses the heinous materialism in the world, in which all human values are replaced by the value of money when evaluating people, their behaviour and society’s opinion of...
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Zionist goals scored on the Arab pitch
It was not a slip of the tongue or a joke when Al-Sisi explained his purchase of Israeli gas, despite celebrating the discovery of the Zohr gas field two weeks ago and claiming that he would achieve self-sufficiency for Egypt, by telling the Egyptians “you scored a goal”. It...
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Ghouta: Sounds from hell
The massacres and crimes committed by the fascist Baathist regime against its own people since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011 are a disgrace to humanity. The scenes of death, destruction and demolition broadcasted from Ghouta and the pictures that speak without words, images from which we...
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The Egypt-Israel gas deal is scandalous and shameless
After Al-Sisi opened the very large Zohr gas field about two weeks ago the newspapers celebrated and announced the news that Egypt will achieve gas self-sufficiency this year by means of the Zohr, North Alexandria, Nawras, and Atoll gas fields. The Egyptian citizens lived this dream until they awoke...
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Sinai is being cleared for the deal of the century
Suddenly, Egyptians woke up to military marches, national songs, military shows of our armed forces and a statement by the official spokesman for the Egyptian Armed Forces announcing the beginning of the war against terrorist groups in Sinai, and the suspension of studies in schools. Previously, the Internet and...
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The General has been shaken
The General seemed shaken, tense and trembling during his latest speech at the opening of one of his nonsensical projects. This was despite his attempts to cover this up by making threats to the forces of evil; he was not specific, but remained content to call on the people...
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January in Egypt, where pride meets shame
January 2011 witnessed the greatest revolution in Egypt’s history, in which the people revolted against oppression and injustice. It was an epic human gathering in which all the people, regardless of their political, intellectual, and religious affiliations, came together, putting aside any affiliation other than their affiliation with Egypt. Their...
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The fantasia of the Egyptian elections
It was suddenly announced in Egypt that members of the House of Representatives formed under the watchful eye of the government and intelligence convened to nominate Al-Sisi. His campaign had already started under the slogan Alashan Tabneeha (So You Can Build It) supported by petitions signed by artists, athletes,...
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The shameful intelligence leaks confirmed what we already knew
We did not need media leaks to reveal that an officer in Egypt’s intelligence agency, Captain Ashraf El-Kholi, was telling presenters on Egyptian TV channels what they should say about Donald Trump’s announcement concerning Jerusalem Published by the New York Times and broadcast by Egypt’s Mekameleen television station, the...