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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Did the curtain fall on Shafiq’s fantasia?
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 things that are beyond logic and reason being said and believed by the Egyptian people, who have been brainwashed and...
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The assassination of Egypt’s Nile
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 with the first true democratic experience occurring in Egypt’s history; just as a coup was staged against the elected President...
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Sisi’s terrorist organisation
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 are bombed during prayers. The state media has always told us, “At least we aren’t like Syria and Iraq,” but...
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The series of the arrogant prince
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 Mexican soap opera, the first episode of which began with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef stepping down from his position....
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Between the Balfour Declaration and Trump’s declaration
November 2, 1917 was an ill-omened day in the history of the Arab and Muslim nation. It is the day that Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader of the World Zionist Movement, in which he stated the British government’s support for the...
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Egypt is demeaned by its own president
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi went to France using three Rafale fighter jets, the French aircraft that he bought last year after the government in Paris had been looking for a buyer for more than ten years, and every country had refused. France was unable to sell the planes until Sisi...
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The security massacre
There is no doubt that 20/10/2017 is a sad day that will remain engraved in the public Egyptian memory and is a black day in the history of the police in particular. It is the day that the crème de la crème of the police were betrayed. On this...
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The night Egypt fell
The election of the UNESCO Director General this time around was unlike any of the previous elections, i.e. a legal and democratic measure to appoint someone to the position. It was more like a battle in the media and between diplomats that was unflattering for Egypt, in which it...
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The October War: between victory and defeat
Forty-four years have passed since the October War when the army passed through the fortified Bar Lev Line, which many claimed that even the napalm bombs could not bring down. Our courageous soldiers brought this down with water hoses and were able to breach the wall within 6 hours....
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Should we bid Hamas farewell?
I will not criticise Hamas or our people in the Gaza Strip any further. They bore what no other humans could, including three wars in ten years waged by Israel and a suffocating economic siege imposed by the Israeli enemy and their brothers in Egypt who control the Rafah...
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The Emad Gad bomb
During Al-Sisi’s latest visit to the US he had a shameful meeting with Netanyahu, during which he flashed a wide smile that was plastered on the media for everyone to mock. He also made his disgraceful speech at the UN General Assembly in which he said: “I tell the...
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Egypt has a government that fears the dead
Sheikh Mahdi Akef, the former General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has died after spending over four years in Egyptian prisons since Al-Sisi’s 2013 coup. No charges were ever laid at his door, just like the rest of the political prisoners held by the regime. The government showed no compassion...
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Egypt is the country of contradictions
While Egypt is receiving a senior level Hamas delegation headed by Ismail Haniyeh, head of the movement’s political bureau, Egypt’s legitimate president is being tried on charges of plotting with Hamas. This is after Hamas was accused of being a terrorist organisation, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and accused...
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Character assassination and murder are the norm in Egypt
The panic has reached its climax in Egypt with the countdown to the upcoming presidential elections, which are scheduled to be held next June. Al-Sisi fears the polls and does not want to hold them. Given his low popularity rating, he wants to avoid asking the oppressed citizens to...
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Two organisations shaking the General’s throne
Two reports by two international organisations condemning Egypt under Al-Sisi’s rule were issued yesterday. These organisations are Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. In its report, the former accused Egypt of torturing detainees in order to obtain false confessions, accusing police officers of regularly torturing detainees by means...
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The destruction of the Egyptian economy
At a time when they are calling for the encouragement of investments, to the point where the Egyptian investment minister met with a Saudi businessman on his yacht while he was in shorts, in order to present him with investment projects that she begged him to choose from, the...
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America is angry, but what at?
Suddenly, without any warning, the US administration has reduced its level of aid to Egypt and frozen part of it. This aid has been sent to Egypt every year since the peace treaty was signed with Israel in 1979, stopping only when Obama froze it for a few months...
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Rabaa massacre was the murder of a country
Four years have passed since the massacre of the century in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares; that was the day when the Egyptian conscience died and the concepts of humanity and nationalism were changed. At that point, Muslims adhering to their religion became dangerous and the enemy towards which...
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Egypt speaks for itself
When Al-Sisi staged his first coup against the first democratically elected president in Egypt in 7,000 years, he said his famous line: “Tomorrow, you’ll see Egypt will be on top of the world.” Four years passed and Egypt, which has always been known as “the mother of the world”...
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Sisi’s phobia
Al-Sisi’s latest brainchild is his orders to the Egyptian media, i.e. his media battalion, to deliver the phobia of the fall of the state to the Egyptian people. This is what he said in the youth conference he holds every month with a group of carefully chosen youths, who...
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The protesters prevailed over the Zionists
The true steadfast men and women of the nation protested and exposed their leaders for the traitors they are rather than the martyrs they appear to be. These Palestinians are the most honourable members of our nation, and are a select few remaining who continue to resist the Zionist...
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The new ‘Naguib military base’ should make us weep for Egypt
The army in Egypt has suddenly remembered Egypt’s first President, Mohammed Naguib; his army officers staged a coup against him, imprisoned and insulted him, and then erased from their fabricated history his name as the first President of Egypt following the 1953 coup and consequent overthrow of the King....
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Egypt is being sold off in segments
Egyptians have not yet recovered from the shock of the government’s decision to sell the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia despite the fact that a court ruling declared them to be Egyptian islands within the geographical borders of the Egyptian state. Al-Sisi breached the law and...
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Sisi’s terrorism
The Egyptian people woke up on Friday morning to the news of a terrorist bombing in northern Sinai, killing 26 officers and soldiers and wounding 40 others. Among the dead was Brigadier General Ahmad Al-Mansi, commander of the Thunderbolt Forces. This raises a serious question, as the Thunderbolt Forces...
