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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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The great October victory
On every anniversary, people attack the 1973 October War and turn a great victory into a crushing defeat. Some are sick enough to let their imaginations take over and describe the war as an act agreed in advance by Egypt and Israel as directed by the US. Sometimes this...
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Egypt’s Pharaoh is trembling
He landed in his aircraft on festival day and gathered the sorcerers and masses at the airport to welcome him, in a cheap and comedic scene. He brought together sheikhs, priests, the old, the young and children who were sleepy and had no idea why they were taken there...
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The videos that shook the emperor's throne - Part 2
Read part 1 here How did the videos posted by contractor Mohamed Ali recently achieve what the Egyptian opposition TV channels based in Turkey — “the legitimacy channels” — failed to achieve in six years? How was he able, armed with nothing more than a mobile phone camera, to mobilise...
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The videos that shook the emperor’s throne – Part 1
The Egyptians were in a deep sleep for the past seven years, but have woken up to the tremors caused by videos posted on social media by a contractor and actor called Mohamed Ali. In them, he talks about the corruption of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and some army leaders;...
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Assassinating the dead!
When a tyrant is haunted in his sleep by his opponent, who he killed with his own hands, and is chased by his opponent’s ghost day and night – who he believes it coming to punish him – the tyrant runs and reaches for his weapon to shoot his...
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My heart aches for Myanmar and Kashmir; for Idlib and Aden – part 3
Read part 1 and part 2 Honestly, why should we blame the West, which claims to defend human rights, for their crimes against Muslims when the blame and all of the criminality rests with the Muslim leaders who incite Westerners against us? They encourage them with the brutal crimes that...
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My heart aches for Myanmar and Kashmir; for Idlib and Aden - part 2
Read part 1 here Populism and chauvinism have overtaken countries around the world which have elected leaders based on racist perspectives. Ever since Donald Trump’s election victory in the US, the West has started to lean to the extreme right. This extremism has reached all the way to India, where...
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‘In what state did you come Eid?’
“In what state did you come Eid? Are things the same or is there anything new?” As we welcomed Eid Al-Adha, I recalled this verse from a poem written by Abu Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi (915-965 CE). The state of our Muslim Ummah is worsening day after day, breaking our hearts and...
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Idlib is on fire, but the firefighters only make it worse
For more than four months, the Syrian province of Idlib has been subjected to heavy shelling from the forces loyal to the murderer Bashar Al-Assad and the criminal Vladimir Putin. Thousands of people have been killed under the rubble of their homes. The crimes committed in Idlib are as...
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Are the US and Iran playing the same game?
The events occurring in the Arabian/Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and other international waterways raise many questions about the seizure of some oil tankers, the bombing of others and the shooting down of aircraft. We have heard fiery threats exchanged between the US and Iran, putting the whole...
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Military coups with a revolutionary flavour!
Egypt will celebrated the 67th anniversary of the 23 July 1952 revolution tomorrow, which changed the way of life, not only for the regime in Egypt but for the entire Arab world, as it marked the beginning of successful military coups in the Arab region. This is with the...
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Did the UAE steal Sudan’s revolution?
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 became their partners. I reminded them of what happened in Egypt and how the great January 25th Revolution was lost...
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The sixth year of the Egyptian Nakba is drawing to a close
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 30 June 2013 was the greatest and most terrible defeat in every sense. We lost the land, the homeland, identity,...
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Bahrain was a workshop of betrayal
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 Sultan rejected the offer. Last week, Herzl’s ideological grandson, Jared Kushner, went to Bahrain to ask the Arabs to sell...
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Did they really kill him?
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 the way Morsi died, and said that he would raise the issue during the G20 summit. The German Foreign Ministry...
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The regime has prolonged President Morsi’s life with his death
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 on his principles, preferring prison to surrender. President Mohamed Morsi paid with his life for his steadfastness and commitment to...
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The confusion in the Middle East is being stage managed to benefit Israel
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 hands causing confusion and re-shuffling the cards to create conditions which will further their desires and interests. Those behind it...
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Repeated movies!
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 that their ammunition had run out and that they had nothing to defend themselves with. They were exhausted by their...
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The workshop of shame and disgrace
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 attended by representatives for the world governments and finance ministers. It will include Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, according to...
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Children have shaken the Egyptian government which fears a new revolution
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 rooms angry at having to tackle the test papers on tablets. This new scheme was forced on them by the...
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When will the Arabs understand that they are not part of the game?
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 possesses a huge arsenal of weapons and fierce men who will retaliate strongly, making Iran a mere memory. “He” is...
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Egyptian alliances
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 which people are calling for it, as division and polarisation has reached an all-time high amongst the Egyptian people. It...
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Tripoli is the critical battle in the struggle between right and wrong
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 in order to build something new. However, the evil forces plotting in the region, controlled by Israeli and American hands,...