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Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

 

Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

  • Gaddafi is an idea that does not die

    When Muammar Gaddafi declared the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 1977, he invented a new way for the people to govern themselves. Not through democracy and the ballot box, but by what he called the General People’s Committee, wherein he placed his informants, followers, and supporters. Instead...

  • Zionist sperm in the womb of Arab cinema!

    I am at a loss for words to describe the film, Amira. The least we can say about this film is that it is a vile and despicable film that not only offends the honourable Palestinian prisoners, who pay the price for their heroic stances and their defence of...

  • Lebanon may be independent, but it still depends on too many other states

    Lebanon marks its “independence day” on 22 November annually, the day that it became independent of France in 1943. Or did it? Is Lebanon really independent? It has sovereignty over its land, and it can make decisions without external pressure from Paris, so why am I asking such questions? France...

  • Blows continue to rain down on the Arab world, from its own people and from its enemies 

    “Two blows to the head hurt,” says an Egyptian proverb. But what if there are three? The UAE has announced, for example, that Israel is going to sell 50 million cubic metres of water annually to Jordan, on top of the 55m cubic metres provided free of charge, as explained...

  • The surreal scene in Libya

    There is no doubt that the appearance of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, wearing his father’s cloak while presenting his candidacy papers for the presidency, provoked the wrath and anger of millions of Libyans, who revolted against his criminal tyrant father in a great revolution that he could not confront. He...

  • Israel has become the gateway to government in the Arab world

    The Arab people are living in their worst and darkest of times, experiencing an unprecedented level of humiliation and disgrace. The people have never approached their enemies asking for forgiveness and presenting themselves as loyal to the oppressors; nor have they sought to normalise relations with killers who shed...

  • Civil forces in Sudan are the ones who lost their revolution

    The counter-revolutions are still waging their fierce war against the revolutions of the Arab peoples. After burying the revolutions in Syria, Libya and Yemen, they marched north on Tunisia, the cradle of the Arab Spring revolutions, to make the birthplace of the Arab Spring its cemetery where it would...

  • Is Lebanon the latest battlefield in the war between Saudi Arabia and Iran?

    Lebanon is plagued by crises, with a new one added almost daily. The people are suffering from power cuts and fuel shortages, and queue for hours at petrol stations and bakeries. Daily life has become unbearable. There is also the conflict between the Lebanese armed forces and Hezbollah to...

  • The Lebanese people are living in terror

    I have become very cautious when writing or reading an article using the phrase “unprecedented” or “not the same as before” when referring to an important event as we, writers, become excited in the heat of the moment and raise our hopes, imagining an earthquake would hit and change...

  • A rehearsal for a civil war in Lebanon

    The scenes of masked snipers and the lines of contact between Ain El-Remmaneh and Chyah in Beirut brought back the nightmare of the civil war that Lebanon witnessed in the mid-1970s and 1980s, lasting 17 years. The area in Tabbouna Square, located between the Badaro area which has a Christian...

  • The acts of Abbas’s comedy theatre continue

    I still laugh sarcastically whenever I hear a speech or statement issued by Mahmoud Abbas, President of the security coordination authority with Israel. I am enraged, saddened and pained at the fact that this old man, who is over 86 years old, is the one in charge of the...

  • Where is Tunisia heading?

    Tunisian President, Kais Saied, continues his coup against the Constitution and extends the State of Emergency, exceptional laws, freezing parliament, lifting immunity from parliamentarians, and abolishing all oversight bodies. He has turned an exceptional situation into a permanent state of affairs as if there was no Revolution, nothing has...

  • There is a fine line between a cold war and open warfare

    When Australia cancelled its French submarine deal and replaced it with a US nuclear submarine deal, Switzerland followed a similar path, deciding to buy the F-35 aircraft from America instead of France’s Dassault Rafale combat aircraft. Less than 24 hours later, Romania announced that it no longer wanted to...

  • France seems cursed, and it’s all down to Macron

    As deceivers in world politics go, the offspring of Zionist capitalism takes some beating. As soon as Emmanuel Macron appeared on the scene as president of France, he dared to insult Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and defended the criminals who republished the infamous Charlie Hebdo cartoons as...

  • The Palestinians are already free; it is we who are held captive by Zionism

    Palestine is still the cradle of the world’s free people. The Palestinians are still the source of inspiration and hope for the Arab people who are oppressed and held captive inside their homelands. Fascist tyrant rulers, appointed by the colonialists before their departure, are still on their thrones. The...

  • The meeting between Abbas and Gantz was shameful

    Why was anyone astonished when Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the “sacred” security collaboration Palestinian Authority, met with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz? After all, the bottom line is that Abbas’s loyalty lies with Israel, not the people of Palestine. Didn’t he announce proudly that he meets monthly with...

  • The Arab world seeks internal disputes rather than confrontation with its enemies

    As if the domestic issues facing the Arab world are not enough, we seem to need more crises and tension between regional states. An old-new crisis in north-west Africa has risen yet again; the Algerian government has decided to cut diplomatic relations with Morocco, and justified this by citing...

  • The Taliban victory has seen Arab conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork

    They don’t want an Islamic group to achieve any victory, let alone a victory over the most powerful country in the world. Hence, the conspiracy theorists, most of whom are Arab “liberals”, came out of the woodwork when the Taliban triumphed over the US. Such “liberals” cannot tolerate Islam...

  • The Taliban has triumphed and exposed the US as a colonial entity

    The fighters of the Taliban movement have taught the submissive Arab leaders an important lesson about dignity and pride: that the US Qibla to which they direct their devotion is not an inevitability; that it is not a requirement for success in this life. The Taliban has also exposed...

  • A loaf for living, not just a loaf of bread

    Egyptians are unique in that they call the loaf of bread a ‘loaf for living’, as it goes beyond being a commodity to eat and is the pillar of life and existence. There is an Egyptian saying that goes, “those who target the livelihood of the poor will not...

  • The final leaves of the Arab Spring have fallen

    There is no doubt that the coup led by President Kais Saied in Tunisia has caused a major tremor in Arab societies yearning for freedom and democracy. They could smell the aroma of freedom from the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, the cradle of the Arab Spring. Tunisia gave them...

  • What fate awaits Lebanon?

    Lebanon’s Saad Hariri has finally apologised for only forming the government nine months after President Michel Aoun tasked him with this mission. However, Aoun rejected the ministers proposed by Hariri, especially when it came to selecting Christians, which the president regards as his speciality. Aoun also wants to keep a...

  • Twenty years on from 9/11, the Taliban returns to the forefront in Afghanistan

    Twenty years have passed since the US invasion of Afghanistan, President George W Bush’s response to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the responsibility for which was laid at the door of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Bush accused the Taliban government in Kabul...

  • Since when has the UN Security Council supported Arab issues?

    Egypt resorted to the UN Security Council to solve the problem of the Renaissance Dam after it had exhausted all its efforts in futile negotiations that did nothing. As Dr Mohamed Nasr Eldin Allam, the former minister of irrigation, said: “Egypt did not stand against the Renaissance Dam. Egypt...