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Items by Yasser Abdel Aziz
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Hope and anticipation for the Arab-China summit
The Arab-China summit in Saudi Arabia at the weekend ended with the Riyadh Declaration. It has 24 articles, making it a strategic document for cooperation and development between the signatories from the kingdom itself plus Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Algeria and...
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What’s the motive behind the Turkish rapprochement with Egypt?
Are there understandings between Turkey and Egypt regarding the Libyan file? This was the question posed by fellow journalist Taha Al-Essawi to Dr Yasin Aktay, chief adviser to Turkish President and leader of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cautiously and in a manner that does...
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We need to consider how the Egyptian revolution will succeed
Nine years have passed since Egypt’s 25 January Revolution, and this compels me to contemplate that historic moment in a nation that has not risen up since 1919. A popular revolution is generally the most honourable human action in sociological terms, because it is usually a response to official...
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The poor are paying the price of Sisi’s dreams in Libya
The leader of the military coup in Libya has visited Cairo for a second time in a month. This visit coincides with the continued military operations launched by Haftar’s forces on the Libyan capital and the headquarters of the legitimate government. Despite the defeats of his forces, Haftar’s visit...
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Egypt has started to receive its price for the sale of Palestine
In April 2017, the term “deal of the century” first appeared during the leader of the Egyptian regime’s visit to the US and his meeting with US President Donald Trump. “You will find me supporting you very strongly and very earnestly in finding a solution to the problem of...
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Sisi clearly has no shame, so is doing as he wishes
In his speech before the recent Arab Summit held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the head of the Egyptian regime warned of the challenges — described as systematic and unprecedented — that threaten the existence of the Arab countries, which are to be replaced by sectarian entities and terrorist organisations....
