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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Can we now expect gaffe-prone Sisi to claim, ‘I am thy lord’?
We do not know where the filters are that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that he had before he officially became president. Remember? When talking on television programmes prepared specifically to promote him, he used to say that his speech was delayed because everything he would say would pass through...
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The documentary that is shaking the regime
As soon as Al-Jazeera announced the broadcast date for its documentary “The Soldiers”, the pro-coup media in Egypt went into a frenzy, attacking and threatening, at the behest of the government, so-called “Zionist and treacherous” Qatar. The media began to label those who watch the documentary as traitors and...
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The day power was jerked away from him
November 11 came; the day they called on the people to take to the streets in a revolution they called the “Revolution of the Disenfranchised”. No one knows what force called for this revolution, especially since all the national parties and powers renounced it. This only increased the suspicions...
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Floating Egypt
It was Black Thursday, as the Egyptians called it, when they woke up to the news of the Egyptian Pound being floated, or rather assassinated, causing it to lose over half of its value. This was after a lowly deception of the Egyptians took place, as the night before,...
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Egypt’s foreign policy: the policy of manipulation
Egypt’s foreign policy has become a policy of cheap exploitation and manipulation. The tense relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia have surfaced recently after kept quite for some time. This tension became evident after a Yemeni delegation consisting of Houthis rebels and associates of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh...
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The tuk tuk driver who shook the throne
An ordinary, hardworking Egyptian citizen, like the majority of the Egyptian people, who is suffering from a lack of the basic necessities for a dignified life, appeared on a television show hosted by Amr Al-Leithy. He was riding his tuk tuk and they had a conversation that lasted less...
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Catching a big fish
Yesterday, the governing military authority of Egypt added a new crime to the series of crimes it committed since staging the coup in July 2013. They assassinated Muslim Brotherhood leader Dr Mohammed Kamal, a member of the group’s Guidance and Shura councils, along with his companion. They were ambushed...
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Rabaa is a national issue
It has been three years since the worst massacres witnessed by Egypt in its modern history; massacres that cause the human conscience and the free world to ache. The Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Square massacres resulted in the unlawful killing of thousands of Egyptians. Words cannot describe what happened...
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Celebrating delusions of grandeur
There has just been a celebration of the first anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal extension, which they claimed falsely to be a “new” canal. The event saw the new Ferdinand de Lesseps standing arrogantly on the presidential yacht, El Mahrousa, surrounded by his soldiers, guards and...