The losers are in the majority. Let's start by focusing on the Afghans themselves.
Despite the futile promises made by the Taliban saying that they will respect women's rights "within the framework of Sharia law," women will return to the (...)
In all fairness, what humanity endured this summer was a wake-up call like no other. The climatic disturbances were fierce and persistent, and they confirmed a radical shift from the norm. Climate change is not a future phenomenon that the world (...)
From the political and economic standpoints, the alliance between Egypt, Jordan and Iraq announced at the recent Baghdad Tripartite Summit is a solid endeavour that may be the essence of further developments in the Arab world. It is an emerging (...)
After a week of apparently endless disasters, and what seemed as though the curse of the pharaohs had finally set in, a euphoric stretch followed, a few days that could not have compensated Egyptians for their earlier endurance in any better way. (...)
In this day and age, we need never be short of finding the information we are looking for. Our queries are answered immediately by the one and only search engine, Google. As we count on it to answer all our questions, it is no exaggeration to say (...)
Since George Floyd's death at the hands, or knee for that matter, of a US law enforcement officer, all 50 US states saw sweeping demonstrations at one point or another. Since then, unrest that often turned to riots prevailed on US streets and in (...)
Shortly before she was sworn in as US secretary of state in 2009, Hillary Clinton set up a home e-mail account, [email protected]. She relied on this for all her electronic correspondence during her four-year tenure in office from 2009 to 2013. (...)
Millions around the world tuned in to watch the future President of the United States speak at the first 2020 US presidential debate; soon afterwards many tuned out.
Mostly frustrated by the lack of decorum and substance, andby the unpresidential (...)
Politics is a shrewd and devious game, and both incumbent US President Donald Trump and Democratic Party challenger Joe Biden are playing it to the full and utilising the time factor to their advantage in the run-up to November's US presidential (...)
Today the US is grappling with staggering deviations in the backbone of its society. These deviations manifest themselves in a photograph that has been circulating on social media of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse. In it, Rittenhouse has a childlike (...)
The Western media remains adamant about speaking ill of Egypt. A recent headline in the American magazine Foreign Affairs reads, “The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State,” for example, with the article below considering Egypt's, and (...)
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $5.2 billion loan to Egypt on 26 June. A statement made on this occasion reiterated that the loan's intention was “to help the [Egyptian] authorities preserve the achievements (...)
Egypt was spot on when it left Cairo's Tahrir Square void of a statue of a notable figure.
True, there is a statue of Omar Makram standing to one side, but the square could have enjoyed the presence of a statue of, say, late president Gamal (...)
During the protests that ensued after George Floyd's death, a radical notion surfaced with a vengeance: to defund the US police force.
Defunding means to prevent the provision of funds. Advocates of this initiative — taking money from the police (...)
Many a time, journalists in the New York Times and I do not see eye-to-eye. A case in point is a recent article in the Times entitled “In Egypt, images from American protests evoke a lost revolution” by US journalist Declan Walsh. Had he not used (...)
Covid-19 may swerve the results of the 2020 presidential election, especially if the pandemic is not contained by the fall. The journey of Americans through the pandemic, the handling or mishandling of the crisis, and the blow to the economy will (...)
We are nowhere close to ridding ourselves of Covid-19 or its horrendous worldwide death toll just yet, but many, though not all, believe that moving beyond the pandemic is now urgent. It's a judgement call that could have dire consequences, but the (...)
Even during a sweeping pandemic that is testing humanity's resilience, “they” don't stop to ponder the calamity at hand. On the contrary, they are even exploiting it by twisting facts and seeing the bad in the good. “They” are those who have been (...)
As billions of people worldwide remain under lockdown, and as the media render horror stories the norm with staggering numbers of human beings testing positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus, we have to, for the sake of our mental health and emotional (...)
When the Covid-19 new coronavirus hit, the world as we knew it underwent some massive transformations. Today, it is a new world order that is testing our resilience as we realise that some things will never return to what we had previously construed (...)
Is it mandatory for Egyptian writers who want to be published in the Western media to willfully feed the West's craving for lopsided information about Egypt? I guess it is, or else their work wouldn't be given the time of day. Emphasising the West's (...)
Notwithstanding the age factor, a heart attack last October, being a life-long socialist, and a defeat against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic Party race for the presidency, US Senator Bernie Sanders, 78, is enjoying a robust lead in the (...)
Setting its precarious health risks aside, the coronavirus will most certainly impact the global economy.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the outbreak of the coronavirus to be a global health emergency, though it has refrained from (...)
The picture I'm about to draw is not very appealing, as it depicts something of the gloom and doom that must be bared prior to focusing on today's achievements.
Egypt had reached a peak of stagnation even prior to the 25 January 2011 Revolution. (...)
The year 2020 started with a vengeance. According to some pundits, the Middle East has been teetering towards World War III, with the Iranian-US conflict triggering this terrible prophecy.
But let's go back a few decades and open Pandora's Box to (...)