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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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The blessed visit has come to an end
Egypt’s streets and various squares were decorated over the past two weeks with banners, lanterns and neon signs to celebrate the arrival of the Pope. They called him the Pope of peace in the land of peace. Official and non-official television channels competed to broadcast Christian hymns and church...
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They are killing prisoners
All of the Egyptians were shocked on Thursday when anti-coup Al-Mekameleen television broadcast the leaked video of Egyptian soldiers leading young imprisoned men in Sinai, including a child who was handcuffed and blindfolded. The commander ordered the soldiers to kill these prisoners, and they were forced to lie down...
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The night that made the journalists scream!
The night the results of the referendum on the constitutional amendments in Turkey were announced was a night of sadness, screaming and weeping for the pro-coup satellite stations in Egypt. It is as if they’ve become the mouthpieces of the opposition in Turkey, even more intense than them. The...
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Egypt is a big prison
It was as if the bombing of the two churches was awaited in order to declare martial law in the country and put an iron grip on all the state institutions. The Egyptians woke up on Sunday to the bombing of a church in the Tanta province that killed...
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Egypt’s elites praise the Netherlands
How can all the Arab and Muslim countries remain silent in the face of the Netherlands’ hostile position towards Turkey and the statements made by the extremist right-wing party leader against Islam? They did not even issue a statement, even a hesitant or timid one, to condemn the incident. Does...
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Executing the January Revolution
After deposed President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted in the case of killing protestors in the January Revolution, the case of the January Revolution Martyrs is completely closed, as the ruling is a final ruling issued by the highest court, the Cassation Court. This was preceded by the acquittal of...
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The ‘alternate’ Palestinian homeland
Suddenly, without warning, Israeli Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Ayoob Kara tweeted that Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi offered Israel parts of Sinai to annex to Gaza in order to create a Palestinian state, and that the US and Israeli governments are looking into the offer. His words...
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Did Egypt’s January Revolution die?
January 25th passed without a hitch for the people of Egypt, apart from a few posts and tweets on Facebook and Twitter, some of which were eulogies for the revolution while others expressed sadness at it being lost in a sea of frustration. However, there were also some people...
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The curtain has yet to fall on the two islands’ issue
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that the islands of Sanafir and Tiran in the Red Sea are Egyptian, but refused to challenge a lower court which ruled earlier that they belong to Saudi Arabia. This sets a historic precedent, unlike any other; it will certainly be the first...
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What lies behind the slaughter of the Egyptian judge?
Suddenly, without any prior warning, State Council employee Ahmed Al-Labban was arrested from inside his home and a cave – dubbed “Al-Labban’s cave” – was photographed with more than $8 million worth of Egyptian pounds, as well as tens of millions of dollars and other currency lying around inside...
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Aleppo is the source of both shame and pain
There is no doubt that the tragedy of Aleppo will go down in history as a shameful stain on the world’s conscience. To it will be added the other stains that are bound to follow. The conscience of the Arab world has finally announced its demise; it stood by...
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Between saints
While the world was celebrating the birth of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him), an explosion ripped through Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo during Sunday Mass. Twenty-three people were killed and 45 were wounded. The whole world was informed of this and the news agencies spread...
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Can we now expect gaffe-prone Sisi to claim, ‘I am thy lord’?
We do not know where the filters are that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that he had before he officially became president. Remember? When talking on television programmes prepared specifically to promote him, he used to say that his speech was delayed because everything he would say would pass through...
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The documentary that is shaking the regime
As soon as Al-Jazeera announced the broadcast date for its documentary “The Soldiers”, the pro-coup media in Egypt went into a frenzy, attacking and threatening, at the behest of the government, so-called “Zionist and treacherous” Qatar. The media began to label those who watch the documentary as traitors and...
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The day power was jerked away from him
November 11 came; the day they called on the people to take to the streets in a revolution they called the “Revolution of the Disenfranchised”. No one knows what force called for this revolution, especially since all the national parties and powers renounced it. This only increased the suspicions...
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Floating Egypt
It was Black Thursday, as the Egyptians called it, when they woke up to the news of the Egyptian Pound being floated, or rather assassinated, causing it to lose over half of its value. This was after a lowly deception of the Egyptians took place, as the night before,...
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Egypt’s foreign policy: the policy of manipulation
Egypt’s foreign policy has become a policy of cheap exploitation and manipulation. The tense relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia have surfaced recently after kept quite for some time. This tension became evident after a Yemeni delegation consisting of Houthis rebels and associates of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh...
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The tuk tuk driver who shook the throne
An ordinary, hardworking Egyptian citizen, like the majority of the Egyptian people, who is suffering from a lack of the basic necessities for a dignified life, appeared on a television show hosted by Amr Al-Leithy. He was riding his tuk tuk and they had a conversation that lasted less...
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Catching a big fish
Yesterday, the governing military authority of Egypt added a new crime to the series of crimes it committed since staging the coup in July 2013. They assassinated Muslim Brotherhood leader Dr Mohammed Kamal, a member of the group’s Guidance and Shura councils, along with his companion. They were ambushed as...
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Rabaa is a national issue
It has been three years since the worst massacres witnessed by Egypt in its modern history; massacres that cause the human conscience and the free world to ache. The Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Square massacres resulted in the unlawful killing of thousands of Egyptians. Words cannot describe what happened...
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Celebrating delusions of grandeur
There has just been a celebration of the first anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal extension, which they claimed falsely to be a “new” canal. The event saw the new Ferdinand de Lesseps standing arrogantly on the presidential yacht, El Mahrousa, surrounded by his soldiers, guards and...
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The search for an alternative in Egypt
The events in Egypt escalated recently and so too did the crises. The government found itself surrounded from the inside and the outside, and the coup leader seemed shaken and tense, which was evident during his latest speech, the scandalous speech as they call it. In this speech he...
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A regime escaping from itself
Amid a crushing economic crisis, the likes of which has not been seen in Egypt before, the currency value has declined to an unprecedented low. The Egyptian Pound is now worth just 13 American cents ($1 = 7.83 EGP). This is due to the weakness of Egypt’s economic resources,...
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Why leave now?
To whom was the coup leader directing his speech given on the Prophet’s birthday? Was it directed at those present in the hall, the scholars and masses, to the sponsors of his coup, i.e. the countries funding him, or to the military council that brought him into power in...