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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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!”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...