Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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- July 27, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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...
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- July 22, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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...
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- July 12, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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...
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- July 5, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Egypt’s antiquities are a pawn in the Ethiopia dam crisis
Nearly two centuries ago, the Egyptian state began giving attention to Pharaonic antiquities, preserving them in a museum and presenting them to the Egyptian people, as the Europeans used to do. On 29 June 1835, the ruler of Egypt at the time, Muhammad Ali Pasha, issued a decree establishing...
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- June 28, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The puppet authority is killing the Palestinians
Nizar Banat was not the first victim of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority who believes that security coordination with the Israeli enemy is “sacred”; nor will he be the last as long as this puppet authority continues to burden and control the Palestinians. This is the...
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- June 22, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
When will the Palestinians unite?
One vote was enough to overthrow “King Bibi”, who ruled over Israel for twelve consecutive years, and three more before that. He was prime minister for 15 years altogether, longer than anyone else in the post. Not even Ben-Gurion, the founder of Israel, did that. Benjamin Netanyahu was removed from...
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- June 14, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The never-ending reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah
The reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah have become futile; boring get-togethers that have lasted for more than ten years. They have got to the stage where the negotiations themselves have become the goal; negotiations for the sake of negotiations. It is a game at which both sides excel,...
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- June 7, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Has the Sword of Jerusalem uprising slain Netanyahu?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a viable coalition government and so was forced to call the fourth election in under two years, which was held in March. Another stalemate resulted, not least because the other right-wing parties don’t want him to stay in his position. This...
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- June 1, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The Palestinian resistance is the pride of the Ummah
As soon as Israel’s latest military offensive ended, and our foes witnessed the victory of the resistance and defeat of the occupation state, the political and media attack on Hamas began. When the head of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, thanked Iran for its support for the resistance,...
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- May 24, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The battle for Jerusalem has humiliated Israel and its Arab Zionist supporters
Nuclear-armed Israel, and its army equipped with the latest weaponry, has been defeated. It’s much-vaunted and hugely expensive “Iron Dome” missile defence system failed in the face of rockets fired by the Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip. The result was that the rockets could reach all...
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- May 17, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The missiles of the Palestinian resistance throw the enemy off balance
This year’s 73rd anniversary of the Nakba was not marked with sadness, bitterness and grief over the loss of the land, as it was in the past, but rather with joy despite the pain, and pride despite the bitterness. It has spread hope amongst the people about the restoration...
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- May 10, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Palestine will not be the same after another Aqsa Intifada
Coinciding with the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) and the theft of Palestine, the Zionist state of Israel continues to usurp what is left of the historic land and erase the Islamic and Arab identity of Jerusalem by Judaising it. In an effort to unify West and East...
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- May 4, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Abbas has climbed down on holding the Palestinian elections, as usual
I was one of the first to predict that the Palestinian elections will not take place, from the moment that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of security coordination with the occupation, decreed their dates. That was my belief then, and it remains so now because I am aware of his...
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- April 26, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
They can try to sell us a fake history, but we stand witness to the truth
It is said that history is written by the victors, but when do they write it? In the heat of the moment while the witnesses are still alive? Or after they have died? We have suffered for a long time from fake stories and false narratives told to us and...
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- April 19, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Deir Yassin must never be forgotten
Have our special days just become painful memories that we relive every year? Such days within the past few weeks were some that will not be forgotten or erased from the memory of the Palestinians, nor should they be erased from the memory of every Arab worthy of the...
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- April 13, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Is the Nile still king in Egypt?
In the 5th century BC, the great historian and traveller Herodotus said that Egypt is the gift of the River Nile. Four hundred years later the Roman poet Tibullus venerated the Nile, saying: “Along thy bank, not any prayer is made to Jove for fruitful showers. On thee, they...
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- April 8, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Israel is taking advantage of the Suez Canal accident to push its alternatives
There has been a lot of anxiety due to the closure of the Suez Canal caused by the giant container ship MV Ever Given running aground and blocking the waterway, leaving up to 400 other vessels in a queue to pass through. The cost to global trade has been...
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- March 29, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Who can forget Bin Salman’s pride at launching his war on Yemen?
I cannot forget the sight of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman standing in the Ministry of Defence command room in Saudi Arabia on 25 March 2015 and, as proud as a peacock, announcing the creation of an Arab coalition led by the Kingdom to restore legitimacy in Yemen...
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- March 22, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Opposition TV channels in Turkey are giving Sisi’s regime a major headache
The number of attacks on Turkey and President Erdogan in the Egyptian media have declined since indications of reconciliation between Ankara and Cairo have started to emerge. This is a positive step that will certainly be followed by more with regard to the Egyptian opposition TV channels that broadcast...
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- March 15, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Revived kinship between Egypt and Turkey will be positive for the region
Every Muslim in the world wishes to see the differences between Muslim countries get resolved, their relations restored, and the wounds in the Muslim body politic healed in order to return to being a strong structure able to face the challenges it faces. This will help the Ummah around...
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- March 9, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The visit of Pope Francis to Iraq raises many questions
Pope Francis visited Iraq last week in what is said to have been the first trip of its kind. It came at a time of exceptionally difficult circumstances which Iraq has been going through since the 2003 US invasion, with ongoing unrest and killing. And with Daesh remnants still...
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- March 1, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The Khashoggi killing blocks the path to the throne for Bin Salman
The Biden administration has finally authorised the Director of National Intelligence in Washington to release a report about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Donald Trump blocked its release, challenged Congress and failed to implement the law proposed in this regard. In doing so, he helped Saudi Arabia’s...
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- February 22, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Palestine is on my mind — why is Hamas taking part in the elections?
It is difficult for me, and anyone who loves Palestine and hopes that it will return as an Islamic nation from the river to the sea, to see the only credible resistance movement in the Palestinian territories throwing itself towards oblivion. Hamas is wasting the years of struggle it...
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- February 15, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
How many Loujain Al-Hathlouls are there in the Arab world?
Let me make it clear that I am against injustice, oppression and arbitrary arrests for political purposes. I also favour civic freedoms for citizens, regardless of their beliefs or identity, as well as freedom of thought and expression. Hence, I welcomed the release of Saudi Arabian citizen and human...