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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Egypt’s ‘battle of the boxes’ fed the world a distorted image of the nation
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 coup in 2013, such as “May these hands be safe” and “Boshret Khair” (“Good omen”) by Hussain Al-Jasmi. We also...
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Did Sudan’s autumn come too soon?
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 the Sudanese rebels who refused to leave the streets until their demands have been met. They learned the lesson from...
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This was a coup against the revolution, not Bashir
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 Hosni Mubarak as head of the Egyptian government and handed control over to the army, the Sudanese defence minister, Awad...
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Algeria could be the light at the end of the counter-revolutionary tunnel
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 face of public pressure. Having blocked army commander Ahmed Kayed Saleh’s plan to implement Article 102, in accordance with which...
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Giving Israel the Golan Heights is the price paid by Assad to stay in power
It is less than a year since Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the US Embassy to the city...
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No rights will be lost as long as the resistance is behind them
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, on his own, to strike fear and panic in the hearts of the Israeli enemy, armed with weapons? When they...
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The New Zealand massacre is an example of hateful racism in the West
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 to a Serbian song that glorified the Serbian criminal leader Radovan Karadzic, who committed the Serbian massacres against Muslims in...
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The Algerian mummy
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 of its people for the sake of dignity and liberation from the French occupation. This nation will not hesitate to...
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Egypt’s funeral rites are very public indeed
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 the fifteen soldiers who were killed at the hands of treacherous terrorists a week before. Now we have been hit...
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Killing from the judge’s bench
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 Hisham Barakat, in which nine young men were executed last week in light of incomplete or absent justice. The security...
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From Oslo to Warsaw is a long way down; be still my aching heart
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 Rabin in 1991, which ended with the signing of the ill-fated Oslo Accords. The difference between the two meetings is...
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Constitutionalising Egypt’s dictatorship
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 rule. This regime only knows the language of oppression and so it doesn’t matter if there is a constitution or...
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What does Qatar’s Asian Cup victory mean?
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 has refused to bow down to the recklessness of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Despite being besieged by the former’s...
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A revolution plotted against by those who staged it
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 level; although it is understood why the media outlets associated with the regime did not mark it. The regime hates...
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Why must senior officials seek Al-Sisi’s permission before travelling?
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 from travelling on work-related business without first asking his permission in his capacity of head of state. Al-Sisi also added...
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The world is running towards the Damascus killer
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 League after a seven-year absence. The League suspended Syria’s membership after the Assad regime lost its legitimacy due to the...
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The embarrassing interview
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. The interview was filmed three months ago when Al-Sisi was in the US attending the UN General Assembly meeting. It...
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An Egyptian farce plays out in court
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 and different acts, but they can all be described as farcical. The latest is arguably the most absurd, as a...
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The Arab Spring is alive and kicking in Sudan
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 white robes of our brothers in Sudan. They have held enormous and widespread demonstrations, extending across most of the...
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The road to Palestine runs through the barrel of a rifle
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 War; it ends with, “To Palestine, there is only one road; that passes through the barrel of a rifle.” Indeed, that...
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Where are the Gilets Jaunes in the Arab world?
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 even been said that “Arab Spring fever” has reached Europe to sweep away governments. The two, though, are not the same....
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Jamal Khashoggi cast the largest shadow at the G20 summit
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 or use any other misleading phrases to cover up the issue. Even a naïve individual knows that not even the...
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Al Saud is the official sponsor of Israel
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 said, “If you look at Israel, Israel would be in big trouble without Saudi Arabia. We have a very strong...
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Gaza will always remain a fortress of dignity
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 security operation was carried out by a group of elite forces in the Zionist enemy army under the cover of...