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Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

 

Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

  • Qatar’s hosting of a successful FIFA World Cup will be an Arab success

    Qatar is living through one of the thousand and one nights, which people thought was a fantasy but can now see with their own eyes. It has become a reality, with a dazzling display that is capturing hearts. This small country is throwing a large party for countries from...

  • Netanyahu is back with a new look

    The victory of the extreme right in the Israeli elections was not surprising. The Occupation State is racist and extremist in its founding since its usurpation of the Arab land of Palestine. It was only a surprise and a great shock to many secularists who feared the danger of...

  • The Arab League summit of ‘unity’ only emphasised Arab divisions

    An Arab League Summit — the 31st — has just been held for the first time in three years. Arab summits haven’t been missed by anyone, and there will no doubt be meetings behind closed doors in years to come, to which nobody will pay any attention. Such get-togethers...

  • Finally, the mask slipped from the face of Hassan Nasrallah

    The worst aspect of the border demarcation deal between Lebanon and Israel is that it recognised the full right of the Zionist entity to the gas and land of Palestine, and Hezbollah became a guarantor of its security...

  • Is Uday Al-Tamimi the icon of the third intifada?

    The last will of the young martyr Uday Al-Tamimi, written by hand after he had managed to outfox the security system of a country that claims to be a great state with an invincible army, was remarkably mature. “My operation at Shuafat Checkpoint was a drop in the...

  • Palestinian reconciliation: scene one, take ten

    No sane person will reject reconciliation between two parties, especially if the parties concerned are from the same land. Nevertheless, it is equally hard to understand how reconciliation can happen between two opposite parties, with each going in the opposite way to the other, although they both wish that...

  • Between victory and defeat in the October War

    It has been 49 years since the October War, as it is called in Egypt, the October Liberation War as it is called in Syria, or the Yom Kippur War as it is called in Israel. Whatever it is called, the result was the same: the war was a...

  • From Muhammad Al-Durra to Rayan Suleiman my heart grieves for Palestinian children

    It has been 22 years since the start of the Second (Al-Aqsa) Intifada when Ariel Sharon stormed and desecrated the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in September 2000. The intifada spread to all of the territories of occupied Palestine. On its third day, 12-year-old Muhammad Al-Durra was shot and killed by...

  • Putin’s nuclear threat

    The war in Ukraine is in its seventh month, and Russia’s new tsar has been unable to achieve the goals announced at the beginning of his “limited military operation”, as if it was a leisurely outing to return Ukraine to Moscow’s fold. Vladimir Putin views the state as an...

  • Hamas as we remember it, and the reality today

    Every Arab knows that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — has restored the nation’s dignity and pride, and revived the spirit of resistance following the surrender of some Arab governments and the cursed Oslo Accords signed by Yasser Arafat. The spirit of resistance is behind the heroic...

  • London Bridge has fallen

    The official and secret code for implementing the plan for events following the death of Queen Elizabeth II was “London Bridge is down”. This was the signal for “Operation Unicorn” to swing into action, which has happened since the monarch’s death was announced last Thursday. The plan covered everything from...

  • Moqtada Al-Sadr will not be absent for a long time

    Almost two decades ago, the US invasion of Iraq took place and overthrew the dictator, Saddam Hussein, uprooted the Ba’ath Party, dismantled its oppressive security system and dissolved the official army. However, it did not establish a new political mechanism for an alternative democratic system, despite the promise of...

  • What are Erdogan's intentions for Syria?

    In my previous article, I discussed the motives for the Turkish government to normalise relations with the criminal regime in Syria. Were the statements made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, I asked, and before that by his Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, one way of bargaining with Russia, whereby normalisation...

  • What are Erdogan’s intentions for Syria?

    The recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the need to “take further steps with Syria”, a reference to the murderous regime of Bashar Al-Assad, destroyed our last glimmer of hope. Those of us who love the Syrian people and Erdogan himself were shocked by his words,...

  • Iraq has no hope of political change coming via Iran or the US

    Nearly two years after the parliamentary election in Iraq, the parliament in Baghdad has still not been able to choose a new prime minister. This is primarily due to rivalry between Shia parties, especially those affiliated with Iran. They do not want the rug to be pulled from under...

  • Getting rid of the Oslo Accords authority is the first step to Palestinian liberation

    It was no surprise that, even while negotiating with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement through Egyptian mediators to defuse the tension in the Gaza Strip following the arrest of the movement’s senior figure Bassam Al-Saadi in Jenin last week, Israel launched an aerial bombardment of the besieged territory. Such...

  • Kais Saied’s new republic in Tunisia

    The farce of the referendum on the constitution in Tunisia, which Kais Saied penned to give himself dictatorial power — what kind of constitution does not allow the president to be held accountable or impeached? — had a very small participation rate. Only around 25 per cent of eligible...

  • The Jeddah and Tehran summits didn’t really tell us much 

    I don’t rely much on the closing statements of any conference or meetings between national leaders, as they consist mostly of embellishments, platitudes and diplomatically-correct comments. They are sometimes even written before the conferences are held or the leaders actually meet, making them clichés to be tweaked and reused...

  • Biden’s ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ is no direct path to ‘robust regional infrastructure’

    US President Joe Biden has confirmed what I said in my article last week that a person does not need to be a Jew to be a Zionist. His speech at Ben Gurion Airport was a declaration of his Zionist affiliation as he stood on the same land that...

  • The Arab fools will get no consolation from US machinations; will they never learn?

    We are just hours away from US President Joe Biden visiting Saudi Arabia, and I do not know if he will be a welcome guest or not. It is likely that he will be welcomed with smiles, while his hosts hide what is in their hearts, especially Saudi Crown...

  • The ‘New Egypt’ in its ninth year

    If we consider 6 June 1967 as a crushing military defeat for Egypt and the Arab nations as a whole, in which we lost land, honour and dignity, then 30 June 2013 was the greatest and gravest defeat in all senses. This defeat led to our loss of land,...

  • How do you destroy a society without war?

    The blood of Arab citizens has become cheap in the eyes of the Arab leaders, and the images of the Palestinians murdered at the hands of the criminal Israeli occupation forces fill the television screens, but we take no action. That’s why bloodshed across the Arab world is now...

  • The return of Saudi Arabia and the UAE to America’s embrace is inevitable

    Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, many political analysts, especially in the Arab world, have predicted the demise of the unipolar world and the beginning of a multipolar political environment at the heart of which the US will be joined by Russia, China and India. I believe that...

  • Kais Saied and the forbidden love

    Poet Qais Bin Al-Malouh loved his cousin Laila Al-Amriya and was called “Al-Majnoun” because of his intense love for her, especially after his uncle refused to let him marry her. He roamed the desert, flirting with her, singing for her and crying over her. He moved between the Levant...