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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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The attack on respected Sheikh Sha’rawi is reviving interest in his teachings
An Egyptian journalist has sparked a wave of anger among tens of millions of Arabs, not just in Egypt, with his unjustified attack on the “Imam of the Missionaries”, the venerable Sheikh Muhammad Metwalli Al-Sha’rawi, who passed away more than a quarter of a century ago. After all of...
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An extremist Zionist government is facing a weak Palestinian Authority
Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to power in Israel with his sixth government to be approved by the Knesset. It cements his position as the most extreme, right-wing Israeli prime minister ever. This was always to be expected, given that his father, the right-wing Zionist historian Benzion Netanyahu, was even...
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As we enter a New Year, the dominant issue remains Russia’s war in Ukraine
Every year hands over major issues and events to its successor. As we enter 2023, arguably the most important outstanding issue facing the world is Russia’s war in Ukraine, which is approaching its first anniversary with no end in sight. The war is having a global impact, with famine a...
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The deplorable situation of the Muslim nation
2022 is coming to an end, however the events and conflicts that took place during this year are unresolved, the most important of which is the Russian-Ukrainian war that erupted in February. For me, the state of our Islamic nation breaks my heart. Indeed, every Muslim is saddened by the...
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The US needs to wake up if it is to maintain its sole superpower status
The race is on for world domination as the superpowers vie with each other for political, economic and military hegemony. The US has been at the top of the pile since the demise of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago. Now it is facing stiff competition from...
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Will Bin Salman cancel his grandfather's agreement with Roosevelt?
On 14 February, 1945, while US President Franklin D Roosevelt was returning from the Yalta Conference where he met Britain’s Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, King Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was summoned to meet him privately. The meeting took place...
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Young Syrian man discovers a new loophole
The 25-year-old Syrian man, Baraa Habab, was able to discover a critical loophole in the official website of the insurance company of most Egyptian banks, such as Banque Misr, Al-Ahly Bank, Cairo Bank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and others. The loophole involves Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS). It allows the hacker...
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Qatar 2022 has shown that Palestine lives on in the hearts of the people
The Palestine football team did not qualify for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, but the Palestinians had more than one team playing in their name. They had an overwhelming presence in the hearts of the Arab teams and hundreds of thousands of Arab and foreign fans. Even the...
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The FIFA World Cup in Qatar demonstrates that Palestine is still the issue
Everyone seems to be eating, breathing and sleeping football during the FIFA World Cup being held in Qatar. It dominates conversations in Arab countries. With everyone’s mind on football, support is forthcoming for the Arab teams taking part: Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco and, the hosts, Qatar. Players have prostrated...
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Qatar’s hosting of a successful FIFA World Cup will be an Arab success
Qatar is living through one of the thousand and one nights, which people thought was a fantasy but can now see with their own eyes. It has become a reality, with a dazzling display that is capturing hearts. This small country is throwing a large party for countries from...
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Netanyahu is back with a new look
The victory of the extreme right in the Israeli elections was not surprising. The Occupation State is racist and extremist in its founding since its usurpation of the Arab land of Palestine. It was only a surprise and a great shock to many secularists who feared the danger of...
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The Arab League summit of ‘unity’ only emphasised Arab divisions
An Arab League Summit — the 31st — has just been held for the first time in three years. Arab summits haven’t been missed by anyone, and there will no doubt be meetings behind closed doors in years to come, to which nobody will pay any attention. Such get-togethers...
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Finally, the mask slipped from the face of Hassan Nasrallah
The worst aspect of the border demarcation deal between Lebanon and Israel is that it recognised the full right of the Zionist entity to the gas and land of Palestine, and Hezbollah became a guarantor of its security...
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Is Uday Al-Tamimi the icon of the third intifada?
The last will of the young martyr Uday Al-Tamimi, written by hand after he had managed to outfox the security system of a country that claims to be a great state with an invincible army, was remarkably mature. “My operation at Shuafat Checkpoint was a drop in the...
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Palestinian reconciliation: scene one, take ten
No sane person will reject reconciliation between two parties, especially if the parties concerned are from the same land. Nevertheless, it is equally hard to understand how reconciliation can happen between two opposite parties, with each going in the opposite way to the other, although they both wish that...
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Between victory and defeat in the October War
It has been 49 years since the October War, as it is called in Egypt, the October Liberation War as it is called in Syria, or the Yom Kippur War as it is called in Israel. Whatever it is called, the result was the same: the war was a...
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From Muhammad Al-Durra to Rayan Suleiman my heart grieves for Palestinian children
It has been 22 years since the start of the Second (Al-Aqsa) Intifada when Ariel Sharon stormed and desecrated the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in September 2000. The intifada spread to all of the territories of occupied Palestine. On its third day, 12-year-old Muhammad Al-Durra was shot and killed by...
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Putin’s nuclear threat
The war in Ukraine is in its seventh month, and Russia’s new tsar has been unable to achieve the goals announced at the beginning of his “limited military operation”, as if it was a leisurely outing to return Ukraine to Moscow’s fold. Vladimir Putin views the state as an...
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Hamas as we remember it, and the reality today
Every Arab knows that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — has restored the nation’s dignity and pride, and revived the spirit of resistance following the surrender of some Arab governments and the cursed Oslo Accords signed by Yasser Arafat. The spirit of resistance is behind the heroic...
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London Bridge has fallen
The official and secret code for implementing the plan for events following the death of Queen Elizabeth II was “London Bridge is down”. This was the signal for “Operation Unicorn” to swing into action, which has happened since the monarch’s death was announced last Thursday. The plan covered everything from...
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Moqtada Al-Sadr will not be absent for a long time
Almost two decades ago, the US invasion of Iraq took place and overthrew the dictator, Saddam Hussein, uprooted the Ba’ath Party, dismantled its oppressive security system and dissolved the official army. However, it did not establish a new political mechanism for an alternative democratic system, despite the promise of...
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What are Erdogan's intentions for Syria?
In my previous article, I discussed the motives for the Turkish government to normalise relations with the criminal regime in Syria. Were the statements made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, I asked, and before that by his Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, one way of bargaining with Russia, whereby normalisation...
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What are Erdogan’s intentions for Syria?
The recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the need to “take further steps with Syria”, a reference to the murderous regime of Bashar Al-Assad, destroyed our last glimmer of hope. Those of us who love the Syrian people and Erdogan himself were shocked by his words,...
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Iraq has no hope of political change coming via Iran or the US
Nearly two years after the parliamentary election in Iraq, the parliament in Baghdad has still not been able to choose a new prime minister. This is primarily due to rivalry between Shia parties, especially those affiliated with Iran. They do not want the rug to be pulled from under...