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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Egypt's new Pharaoh
Since July 3 last year, i.e. since the brutal coup was staged in Egypt, the chorus of corrupt journalists who were walking in Mubarak and his two sons’ procession carrying incense burners and playing horns have been trying to create a new Pharaoh to succeed their former Pharaoh. They...
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The presidential election circus in Egypt
The Presidential Election Commission announced the names of the two candidates who will run for presidency in Egypt, namely Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his shadow Hamdeen Sabahi, who was not able to meet the election eligibility requirements in accordance with the defective candidacy law customised by the interim president...
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The republic of fear
Egypt is going through an unprecedented state of fear, unknown to the country even throughout the eras of tyranny, oppression and injustice it has witnessed many times in its history. However, this time, in light of the brutal military coup, Egypt is living this reality after having experienced and...
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Al-Sisi's bicycle
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi chose to begin his presidential campaign in Egypt by riding a bicycle valued at 40,000 Egyptian Pounds in an empty street with no vehicles other than a parked bus and exactly eight individuals. They were, of course, his guards. I am intrigued by those who doubted...
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The Black Comedy
Egypt continues to witness a black comedy since the bloody coup that drove the country into a dark tunnel threatening the future of Egypt. After the army presented us with its meatball invention that treats every disease and the magic substance that immediately paves roads while the cars drive...
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The execution of the judiciary system in Egypt
The judges, who passed death sentences upon 529 Egyptian citizens in the case of the murdered police officer, passed the death sentence upon the whole Egyptian judiciary system, the same system which coup leaders and their supporters labelled as a “distinguished judiciary”. On the other hand, the majority of the...
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The Attiya Law
Adding to the comedy being acted out in Egypt is the presidential election scene, a blatant attempt to convince the world that there is a real democracy at work and it is heading in the right direction. Part of the deception is the so-called Attiya Law issued by the...
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The meatball state of Egypt
Given the state of absurdity and farce experienced by Egypt at the moment, we should expect the unexpected; absolutely everything goes, no matter how illogical. We shouldn’t even laugh or poke fun at what is happening in our beloved Egypt, which has now become Al-Sisi’s Egypt, an Egypt full...
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In Egypt, free elections are a fantasy
In light of the policy of repression, tyranny and terrorism practiced by the brutal coup-led government in Egypt, and at a time when Egyptians do not feel that they or their families are safe from oppression, torture and murder, the brutal coup-led government insists on holding presidential elections. Propaganda campaigns...
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History being forged by Al-Sisi and his gang
Egypt is undergoing the biggest forgery and fabrication process in its modern history at the hands of Al-Sisi and his gang, who have violated Egypt and stolen the people’s dreams of freedom, dignity and social justice. We had hoped to achieve these goals through the January 25th Revolution and...
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Prosecuting the January 25th Revolution
The prosecution of the legitimately-elected President of Egypt, Dr Mohamed Morsi, on the farcical charges of storming prisons and the escape of several prisoners is basically the prosecution of the January 25th Revolution itself. The revolution gained its real momentum and strength on this particular day, when millions of...
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The farcical referendum
It was a memorable day in the history of forged polls in Egypt, reminiscent of the 1950s when referendums were corrupt and passed by 99 per cent, and also prevalent during Abdel Nasser’s era. The famous writer and journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal was the godfather of Abdel Nasser’s era...
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Iranians are welcome in Egypt
It is amazing that some people are trying to present Iranian tourists in Egypt as some kind of Shia invasion. The same people say nothing about Israeli tourists, even though they are all over the country whereas the Iranians are largely outside Cairo. Israel is a country against which...
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Oh Jerusalem!
It has been 46 years since we lost East Jerusalem; Israel seized control of it in 1967, annexing the eastern half of the city illegally almost straight away. Israel celebrates this painful memory by holding an annual celebration in which it emphasises that Jerusalem is the “permanent capital” of...
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An anonymous source
Anyone who denies that the Egyptian media, in both its visual and written form, is suffering from a professional and moral crisis is either too stubborn and proud or deceitful and glorifies unrighteousness to promote it as the truth. This has caused the cards to be mixed up and...
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Truth will prevail
After the military coup against elected President Mohamed Morsi, we can say that the January 25 revolution has ended. The blood and sacrifice of that revolution appear to have been wasted. Egypt suffered 60 years of oppression and poverty under army officers and yet they have been returned by...
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October War celebrations turn to mourning
The October 6th celebration of Egypt’s surprise attack against Israeli forces across the Suez Canal in 1973 is certainly a source of joy and pride for every Egyptian without exception. This year, though, the leaders of the bloody coup wanted to exclude a large part of the Egyptian public...
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Tragicomedies playing out in Egypt
Egypt in these days of the coup is a state of unprecedented absurdity of a kind not even experienced during the worst tyranny and injustice that began with the reign of Ramses II and ended with the rule of the tyrant Hosni Mubarak, passing the regime of the dictator...
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Why were the Egyptians happy that their team lost?
Does history repeat itself? Where once we had the late Sheikh Muhammad Alsharawi praising Allah for the reprehensible defeat of our army in the 1967 war with the Israelis we now have millions of Egyptians praising Allah for the defeat of Egypt’s football team during a World Cup qualifier...
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Political stupidity prevails
The coup leaders lost their minds and their insight the day they conspired against legitimacy, captured the elected president, Mohammed Morsi, and carried out a bloody military coup on 3rd July. They are delusional to think that they could again subject the Egyptian people to humiliation and take them back...
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For the coup to succeed Al-Sisi must ban the Brotherhood from hearts and minds
The judiciary which now takes its orders from General Al-Sisi and his coup leader cronies has issued a ruling to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood; that sums up all that has occurred in Egypt since the brutal military coup on July 3rd. After thousands of the group’s members and supporters...
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Al-Sisi's constitution
The misleading media loyal to the coup-organisers have referred to the Egyptian Constitution, which was approved in a referendum by 64 per cent of those who voted and was written by a committee elected by the People’s Assembly, as the “Brotherhood Constitution”. Despite the fact that the committee who...
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Egypt's judges are slaying the judiciary
The Egyptian judiciary has met its Creator after its judges killed and buried it having subjected themselves to the coup government, being tempted by its gold and afraid of its sword. We can say with a clear conscience that there is no longer a judiciary in Egypt and that...
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Al-Sisi's dreams kill the dreams of the Egyptian people
Recent leaks have confirmed that the treacherous coup leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, has said that his dreams drove him to carry out the brutal coup against the legitimate elected President, Dr Mohammed Morsi, even before Morsi took office. Al-Sisi did so in the hope of becoming president of Egypt...