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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...

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...

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...

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...

It is less than a year since Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the US Embassy to the city

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The youth conference in Egypt is one of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s creations, and has been held every year since he became President in Egypt after staging a military coup...

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...