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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

The Egyptian government refused to allow 2017 to end in peace without shedding the blood of Egyptians. Therefore, it carried out the death sentence against 15 innocent citizens tried...

We are at the end of the current year and there are only a few days left before we are handed over to the new year, with all of...

The Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide in Egypt, Dr Mohamed Badie, said in court, “Palestine is our primary cause. Release us and we will liberate Jerusalem and Palestine.” The judge’s...

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, which was created from the womb of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. It was founded,...

The year 2017 refused to end before the 100th anniversary of the cursed Balfour Declaration was crowned with Trump’s cursed declaration, recognising Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel...

All of the peace treaties between Israel and the Arab countries, such as Camp David, Wadi Araba, and the Oslo Accords, came crashing down with US President Donald Trump’s...

Everything in Egypt has become absurd, making absurdity the main characteristic of the post-2013 coup phase. Things are in disarray, including the minds of people, and we are hearing...

Just as thousands of Egyptians have been assassinated in cold blood and the dreams of a nation that dreamed of freedom, dignity, justice and equality were buried alive, along...

Last Friday was a sad day for Egypt, unlike any other. The country has never experienced such incidents like those we hear about in Iraq and Syria, where mosques...

There is no doubt that the ambitious and arrogant Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has entertained the world with an action series, similar to a...