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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Bringing Assad back into the League of Shame does nothing for Arab unity
We no longer expect to see or hear anything from the moribund organisation that doesn’t lift a finger to help the people it is supposed to represent, despite the numerous calamities afflicting them across the region. I refer, of course, to the League of Arab States, which is forever...
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We will not commemorate the 75th Nakba with tears, but with the strength of resistance
The 75th anniversary of the Nakba of all Arabs and Muslims, not just Palestine, is upon us. It is the catastrophe of the entire Islamic nation that began in 1948 and its consequences continue to this day. We remember that day, on 14 May 1948, on which the hearts...
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Khader Adnan was a nation standing on his own
Khader Adnan remained, until his last breath, standing tall like Palestine; like the hills of Nablus; like the mountains of Andalusia. He was a brave man, but he was a nation standing on his own. We felt shame in the face of his steadfastness against the enemy of the...
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Sudan’s people are caught between the anvil of the army and the hammer of the RSF: Part Two
Sudan has witnessed many military coups since independence. The generals have been in power for more than 58 years in total, almost 90 per cent of its years as an independent state. Military rule has been interspersed by transitional periods between the military and short-lived sovereignty councils for periods...
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Sudan’s people are caught between the anvil of the army and the hammer of the RSF
The fighting between the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, Vice President of the Sovereignty Council, is no surprise. Events since Al-Burhan...
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Netanyahu's government has gone with the wind
Since Benjamin Netanyahu assumed premiership for the sixth time in an alliance with the extremist racist right three months ago, the Israeli state has been in turmoil and chaos in the street. Netanyahu has been experiencing a real dilemma and the situation may turn against him and he becomes...
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Will Trump’s trial reopen the door to the White House?
For the first time in US history, a former or current president has been charged in a criminal court. The pictures of the groundbreaking moment shattered the arrogance of former US President Donald Trump, who was duly humiliated and insulted. His features reflected his anger when he entered the...
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Palestinian Land Day: a battle against fascism
Palestinians marked Land Day on 30 March. On this day in 1976, the Israeli occupation forces confiscated thousands of dunums of privately owned or communal lands within the borders of areas with a Palestinian majority, and a general strike and marches spread from the Galilee to the Negev. Ten...
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Twenty years since the Iraq invasion and what has been gained?
Twenty years have passed since the US-led invasion of Iraq, with its harsh consequences, severe developmental setbacks and its alienation from its Arab neighbours which conspired against it, as well as its resort to the embrace of Iran. These twenty years have destroyed the civilisation of an ancient country...
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Assad flees to the embrace of his master on the anniversary of the revolution
On the twelfth anniversary of the wounded Syrian revolution against which those closest to it conspired, the Syrian butcher fled to his protector and master, the de facto president of Syria, to escape from the memories of the people’s revolution that almost overthrew him and his corrupt family. The...
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Has Bin Salman ‘drank the poison’ to end the split with Iran?
There is no doubt that the restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran is major news which has surprised almost everyone, despite leaks about Omani other regional mediation. Since April 2021, for example, Baghdad has hosted five rounds of talks between the two countries fighting over regional...
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The Aqaba conference will fail to suppress the Palestinians, as others have before it
While the Israeli occupation forces were storming the city of Nablus last weekend, killing 12 Palestinians and wounding dozens more, security officials from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan and the US were meeting in Aqaba to save Israel and give it the green light to kill more Palestinians. The...
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After a year of his crazy war in Ukraine, is Putin dragging the world into nuclear conflict?
In his recent populist speech on the anniversary of his invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin looked and sounded like an Orthodox patriarch delivering a sermon. He tried to convince us that he launched his war for the sake of Christianity and its values. The West, he claimed,...
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When opportunists seek political gains from humanitarian disasters
The repercussions of the major earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria early this month are still with us. The sadness still haunts us. Every day, we hear tragic stories that break our hearts and bring tears to our eyes. Thousands of corpses are still under the rubble, and thousands...
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A tale of two presidents, one crying and one laughing
There is no doubt that everyone who has a conscience in the Islamic world or even an iota of humanity within them lived with great sadness and heartbreak last week as we saw the tragic aftermath of the terrible earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria. Tens of thousands were killed...
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The world has forgotten the Palestinian prisoners
The far-right, racist Israeli government coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has used Khairy Alqam’s resistance operation in Jerusalem as a pretext to abuse and suppress the Palestinians even more, especially the younger people in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank. More than usual have been killed, arrested or thrown...
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Sometimes Alqam (wormwood) is sweeter than honey
In the darkness that the nation is living through, and in the nightmare of normalisation, a light emanates from within the darkness, from Palestine, as usual and, specifically, from Jerusalem and the West Bank. It was Khairi Alqam who carried the torch this time, the young Jerusalemite who is...
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We did not preserve, protect or take proper care of the revolution; that’s the reality
As we approach the 12th anniversary of Egypt’s 25 January 2011 Revolution, the conditions in the country are much worse than they were back then. Today, the Egyptian people are suffering more from inflation and poverty amid a severe economic crisis, along with the depreciation of the Egyptian pound,...
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The attack on respected Sheikh Sha’rawi is reviving interest in his teachings
An Egyptian journalist has sparked a wave of anger among tens of millions of Arabs, not just in Egypt, with his unjustified attack on the “Imam of the Missionaries”, the venerable Sheikh Muhammad Metwalli Al-Sha’rawi, who passed away more than a quarter of a century ago. After all of...
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An extremist Zionist government is facing a weak Palestinian Authority
Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to power in Israel with his sixth government to be approved by the Knesset. It cements his position as the most extreme, right-wing Israeli prime minister ever. This was always to be expected, given that his father, the right-wing Zionist historian Benzion Netanyahu, was even...
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As we enter a New Year, the dominant issue remains Russia’s war in Ukraine
Every year hands over major issues and events to its successor. As we enter 2023, arguably the most important outstanding issue facing the world is Russia’s war in Ukraine, which is approaching its first anniversary with no end in sight. The war is having a global impact, with famine a...
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The deplorable situation of the Muslim nation
2022 is coming to an end, however the events and conflicts that took place during this year are unresolved, the most important of which is the Russian-Ukrainian war that erupted in February. For me, the state of our Islamic nation breaks my heart. Indeed, every Muslim is saddened by the...
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The US needs to wake up if it is to maintain its sole superpower status
The race is on for world domination as the superpowers vie with each other for political, economic and military hegemony. The US has been at the top of the pile since the demise of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago. Now it is facing stiff competition from...
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Will Bin Salman cancel his grandfather's agreement with Roosevelt?
On 14 February, 1945, while US President Franklin D Roosevelt was returning from the Yalta Conference where he met Britain’s Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, King Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was summoned to meet him privately. The meeting took place...