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Items by Wael Qandil
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In Al-Sisi’s defence
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took over the political authority in Egypt, seized religious authority for himself, and has dominated the judicial authority. All that is left for him to do is to gain possession of fate. Al-Sisi is neither Egypt’s destiny nor fate; he is part of a very precisely planned...
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ElBaradei, the Brotherhood and trapping elephants in a napkin
When he was appointed vice president of Egypt after the military coup in 2013, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei denied any coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood during the January 2011 revolution. During the third part of his recent interview with Alaraby TV, ElBaradei was asked, “Didn’t you coordinate with the Brotherhood...
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Sisi between Israeli approval and Saudi cash
Anyone who believes that the news coverage of the indecent flirtation between Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Israel may anger the Egyptian leader is mistaken. On the contrary, such reports and leaks make the General smile and on the verge of dancing for joy. We used to be surprised by the...
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When Alaa Al-Aswany emigrates
“I will emigrate to the Comoros or any distant country to flee your faces, you security agency spies. I really hope to do so.” With this painful sentence, the internationally known writer ended a tweet he posted yesterday in response to a news report that was widely circulated, claiming that...
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Sisi short-changes Cameron
Who is Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi kidding when he said that the Muslim Brotherhood is part of the Egyptian people and that the death sentences will not be implemented? It seems that the line “the death sentences will not be implemented” has become a key item packed in the brutal General’s...
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His Majesty Al-Sisi
The Egyptian citizen has the right, while watching the disaster in Alexandria, to ask: What has the Sisi regime done with the tens of billions it obtained as a prize for carrying out the coup? Where have more than $41 billion in Gulf aid gone? These were documented in a...
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Al-Baradei's rejected gift and the doyen of rubbish collectors
By the consensus of objective Egyptian political affairs’ observers and analysts, the testimony of Dr Muhammad Al-Baradei “and he is said to be a doctor” stands out as the most serious indictment document pertaining to the crime of the coup against the nascent democracy in Egypt. I think it would...
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Crying over Kasasbeh doesn't give a mandate to burn others
We live in a time in which barbaric Egyptian leaders use their media outlets to call on the masses to burn the houses of dissenters with their owners inside while crying, hypocritically it must be said, over the horrific killing of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh. When Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi...
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International regulation of counter-revolutions
You don’t have to let your imagination go far or even delve deep into the world of conspiracy theories to see that there appears to be an organised movement of counter-revolutions in the Arab world. You will not have departed too far from the truth if you were to...
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Arabs are anti-political Islam but pro-political Judaism
When some Arabs label resistance as terrorism and the chickens in the false “moderation” coop praise Netanyahu’s eloquent Hebrew, the Zionists have the right to dream of heading the Arab Summit Foundation and advertising in Arab newspapers that they are accepting volunteers in the Israel army. Why not? When...
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Arab Likudniks
Is political scheming alone enough to turn individuals who have spent most of their lives chanting against the Zionists into pseudo-Likudniks gnawing at the body of the Palestinian resistance? Is hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood enough to move a “professional nationalist” from the resistance camp directly to the Zionist...
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Al-Sisi playing Mubarak's game
Hosni Mubarak was not able to bequeath his presidency and estate to his biological son, Gamal Mubarak, so he instead chose to bequeath it to his son from his military life, Abdulfatah Al-Sisi, who is heading towards the presidency on a path of bones and blood among other political...