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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

They call it the Manama workshop, and it is titled “Peace for Prosperity”. It is due to be held in Bahrain on June 25 and 26 and will be...

Believe it or not, 15-year-old children in their first year of upper school have scared the Egyptian government which mobilised the security forces because the youngsters left their examination...

He sat like a peacock, fanning out his feathers as he warned and threatened the Iranians that an attack on Saudi Arabia will result in Iran’s destruction, as Riyadh...

The word alliance, i.e. unity and rallying behind one individual, has become a notorious term in Egypt, despite the nobility of its meaning, as well as the purpose for...

Libya’s was the only Arab Spring revolution that had complete components and was going down the path of powerful revolutions against all things old and corrupt before demolishing them...

Egypt has just spent three days playing out the constitutional amendment referendum, complete with clichéd dancing in the streets to horrendous songs that we first heard after the military...

We rejoiced and had high hopes for the revolutionary movement in Sudan, which overthrew the head of the tyrannical authority, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. It is a great achievement for...

They wanted to abort the revolution that they could not kill, in spite of the killings and arrests. Just as the Egyptian defence minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawy, removed...

There is no doubt that the Algerian revolution achieved a great victory by ousting the head of state, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was forced to step down in the...

It is less than a year since Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the US Embassy to the city

Aren’t those who race towards normalisation and into the arms of Israel ashamed of themselves when they see a young man, still at the beginning of his life, manage,...

The Australian terrorist who committed the massacre at a mosque in New Zealand was calmly and even happily listening to music as he committed his crime. He was listening...

The country of the million martyrs will not stand helpless in the face of those who want to disparage it and its noble perseverant people who have sacrificed millions...

We’ve barely had time to mourn the nine young Egyptian men who were unjustly dragged to the gallows last week, and we are still shedding tears for them and...

In a single month, in fact, within two weeks, 15 Egyptian citizens were executed in three different cases, the most recent of which was the assassination of Attorney General...

The sight of Arab foreign ministers meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw was reminiscent of the meeting between the late Yasser Arafat and Netanyahu’s predecessor Yitzhak...

I do not care whether the Egyptian Constitution is amended or not, or even whether it exists or not, given that Egypt is a military state under tyrannical fascist...

Qatar’s victory in the Asian Football Confederation tournament was not just about winning a football match; it was a victory for free will and Qatar’s independence and sovereignty, which...

Eight years have passed since the greatest revolution in Egypt’s modern history occurred on January 25th. It has passed without much commemoration, neither on the official nor the popular...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has issued a surprising decree prohibiting the Prime Minister and his deputies, the heads of independent, supervisory and security bodies, and senior state officials...

We are starting to hear talk of the need for Syria to return to the embrace of the Arab states and to take its vacant seat in the Arab...

For nearly a week, the international media and social media have been talking about an interview between Al-Sisi and the famous American corresponded, Scott Pelly, on CBS’s 60 Minutes....

It seems that 2018 refuses to leave without witnessing one last absurd scene from the tragedy playing in Egypt since the 2013military coup. This play has had several scenes...

We have barely finished with the Gilet Jaunes movement and the Paris demonstrations, which lasted six weeks and spread to some other European capitals, and are now faced with...

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...