The US foolishly refuses to learn the lesson from history in connection with its relationship with many world's countries, such as Egypt under ex-president Hosni Mubarak and Iran under the late Shah of Iran. Accordingly and regardless of its claims (...)
CAIRO - Before boarding his presidential plane to Cairo on June 4, 2009, the mentors of the handpicked Barack Obama discovered that the traditional uniform—a cloak and a turban—of a Muslim sheikh was missing in his kit.
Nor was the juggler had ample (...)
CAIRO - Admittedly, Barack Obama was the first black president in the US White House in 2008. He was hailed by the US officials, Western intelligence agencies and media commentators as the man qualified to steer the American nation's yearning for (...)
CAIRO - Now that the Temple of Islamists on the Mokkatam Hill in Cairo has been torched, the US ambassador to Egypt Anne W. Patterson has undoubtedly launched a last-ditch effort to save her career and the two presidents (Obama and Morsi), who were (...)
The nation heaved a deep sigh of relief as the Temple of Devil (the Muslim Brotherhood) crumbled down on June 30. A hysterical reaction by the terrorist organisation did not disrupt the euphoric mood, which overwhelmed the entire nation the moment (...)
Since its formation in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has seemed destined to reap a bitter harvest in the end of the day. The organisation's trends throughout history reveal a number of parallels to the tragic ancient Greek myth of Sisyphus, the (...)
There must be a group of misogynists in the US State Department. They cruelly abuse the code of gendre equality by posting women in particular in ‘the most dangerous areas' across the world. The latest victim of abusers of women human rights in the (...)
Ex-President Hosni Mubarak refused to leave Egypt after he was ousted from power on February 11, 2011. Mubarak also refused to change his mind about his departure, although Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates prepared to give him a red carpet (...)
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, which swept to power in 2002, deliberately opted for the word ‘Development' in its banner to conform to its promises: economic prosperity, social development and accession to European Union. (...)
Is it our idiocy, intellectual deficiency or psychological weakness, which compel us to kneel and bow our heads in supplication in front of self-proclaimed spiritual leaders and at their whims, or are prophets and spiritual leaders super-humans, who (...)
The Arab region shows a wide gulf and irreconcilable differences in the areas between Islam the religion and Islamic civilisation allegedly founded on its tenets and ethics. Paradoxically, the true values of Islam appear much brighter and more (...)
When US President Barack Obama attempted for once to break his policy of giving conflicting and confusing statements on issues related to Muslims, he could not help but tell more of his big ‘lies' without showing even a flickering sign of shame. (...)
The first arrow aimed at the reputation of the Egyptian military was shot on October 6, 1981. During celebrations marking the 8th anniversary of the October War victory, ex-president Sadat, the hero of the October War in 1973, was assassinated by (...)
At 65 and survivor of 19 assassination attempts, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is undoubtedly destined to pursue the fulfilment of her nation's long-awaited ambitions that were championed by her late father Sheikh Naguibur Rahman. Nor (...)
The North Korean embassy in Cairo sent a furious complaint, protesting to the article ‘Mass suicide in the Korean Peninsula,' which appeared in this corner on April 7. The North Korean embassy accused the writer of the ‘Home Talk' corner of (...)
The pages of old and modern history are packed with several dark chapters, in which megalomaniac and paranoid dictators hijacked state powers, holding hostage a helpless nation for decades, and then forcing them to commit mass suicide in the form of (...)
In his speech in Jerusalem, US President Barack Obama established himself as the besotted admirer of the Jewish state more than any of his predecessors had managed to do. Addressing Israeli students in the Jerusalem Convention Centre (JCC), Obama (...)
On his visit to Jerusalem, US President Barack Obama peevishly urged Arab countries to take part in the collective candle-blowing ceremony and mark the ‘official' birthday of the Jewish state in the Middle East (ME). Obama deliberately went to the (...)
The success of a new nuclear test at home appears to have aroused Pyongyang's passions to flex its nuclear muscles in front of different audiences overseas. Last week, the regime of Kim Jong-un vowed to launch a nuclear strike on Washington.
North (...)
The US Secretary of State's visit to the ME compelled an interruption in this week's edition of the ongoing series of articles about the territory of shared power between the military and Islamists in Egypt since the eruption of the July Revolution (...)
It was shortly after the year 2005 when the ailing Mubarak fell victim to the spell of Sharm El-Sheikh, the coastal city in South Sinai about 510km from Cairo, abandoning domestic affairs to his domineering wife Suzanne Thabet and their over (...)
In the first decade of the 21st century, Washington beckoned to Islamists in the Middle East to warm up before they would be given the cue to seize the reins of power from military men. The US was increasingly concerned that its long-standing allies (...)
By helping Islamists to assume power in the Middle East, the seat of global Islam, Washington and the West must have made a groundbreaking achievement in the centuries-old ideological power struggle.
Earlier in 1989, the US and western European (...)
Is there anyone in the Islamists-dominated government, or in the opposition camp, who has the courage to tell the US Ambassador to shut up and stop meddling in the domestic situation in Egypt? Since she moved in May two years ago from Pakistan to (...)
Video footage of policemen stripping a demonstrator naked and beating him brutally and dragging him down the asphalt street in yesterday's cold night, will have a disastrous impact on the future of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and overseas.
The (...)