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Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports, Miri Regev, was not wrong when she said that the country is experiencing an “Israeli Spring”. This minister in particular experienced things she...

Last Friday the Arab world spoke Hebrew, as three Arab countries raised the Israeli flag. These flags were raised in Qatar as it hosted the Israeli gymnastics team, in...

“Some leave to stay” was a tweet posted by the betrayed journalist Jamal Khashoggi on his Twitter account, where he also posted his saying, “Say your words and go!”...

Every year when October comes around, the knives come out in every direction to stab the 6 October 1973 War and turn Egypt’s victory into a defeat. Sometimes, the...

Frankly, this was not the first, and it will not be the last time that the American President Donald Trump insults the Saudi King, but we are a nation...

Part 2 of 2, find part 1 here Uri Bar-Joseph, a former intelligence analyst in the Israeli army, published his book The Angel in 2016, in which he claimed...

Part 1 of 2, part 2 can be found here The late journalist Moussa Sabri was the first to mockingly call Ashraf Marwan (the son-in-law of the late President...

Last week saw the 25th anniversary of the signing of the cursed Oslo Accords that eliminated the Palestinian national constants. It replaced them with the recognition of Israel in...

It has been over a year since Trump and Al-Sisi met in the White House and announced the deal of the century, without giving any details about it other...

When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi visits a foreign country, he flatters his hosts by saying whatever they like to hear, such as an attack on the Islamist trend,...

They say that revolutions devour their children, so we can imagine what the case must be with counter-revolutions based on treachery and deception. The heroes of the so-called 30...

The failed coup in Turkey in 2016 was not the last of the battles waged by the US against Turkey and President Erdogan in particular, as America is constantly...

The Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda massacres still linger in my mind, and my heart refuses to let them go. The five years that have passed were unable to fold...

In the course of just four months, we have been flooded with initiatives to resolve the political crisis in Egypt, with seven reconciliation proposals on the horizon. However, they...

If we put together an encyclopaedia of Al-Sisi’s words since he first carried out his brutal coup in July 2013, the pages would’ve been completely filled and we would...

The official media in Egypt have celebrated what they called the “glorious 1952 revolution” despite the fact that those who carried out the “revolution”, the military, called it a...

Famous Egyptian actor, Youssef Wahbi, once said in a film that “life is nothing more than a big stage.” The phrase has since become an Egyptian saying yet, if...

First, we must recognise that football is a patriotic and political game, as the fans cheer for teams first and foremost based on their nationality and politics. It could...

The Egyptian Military’s coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Morsi, on July 3, 2013 was organized in advance at the end of the Mubarak regime. Even as...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has managed to unify the feelings of Muslims from east to west. They have become one heart in one body, and when one limb aches,...

The countdown to Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections has begun. Scheduled for 24 June, they are being held 16 months earlier than required. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised everyone...

The streets in downtown Cairo were completely shut down and the people were banned from running their errands and attending to their businesses. Cars were also prevented from accessing...

Fifty-one years has passed since the shameful defeat of the Arabs in the 5 June 1967 war, which resulted in Israel’s occupation of Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West...

The Islamists have progressed in elections held in three countries recently: Tunisia, Libya, and Malaysia. The latter is the biggest surprise. This was a political earthquake that overthrew the...

Israel held a big celebration in the Egyptian capital Cairo before the eyes and ears of the Egyptian government. The celebration was under the auspices of the security authorities,...

The month of May brings with it a painful memory for Arabs and Muslims, the anniversary of the Nakba. We remember that the day when the heart of the...

The scandal was especially outrageous because it occurred in one of Cairo’s newest and most affluent neighbourhoods. Rainwater flooded Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighbourhood four days ago, and we watched...

Without warning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised the whole world with his decision to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, sixteen months before they were...

Speaking at the Arab Summit, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, mistakenly called ballistic missiles, plastic missiles. It would have been more accurate to call the...

One hundred years after the disastrous Balfour Declaration, in which the British government lent its support to the campaign for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine,...

How can it be that a nation which lost six martyrs in defence of their land on 30 March, 1976 has commemorated the event with the loss of 16...

The play whose producers have been waiting for a long time to present to the whole world after several months of preparations was finally performed yesterday. This long period...