In the press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron held in the White House, US President Donald Trump said his country spent more than seven trillion dollars in the last few decades and got nothing in return.
The question that comes (...)
Electing judge Bahaa Abu Shoka as the head of Egypt's Wafd Party is a qualitative leap for the old party at this stage in its history, and could perhaps represent the beginning of reviving partisan life in the country.
Over the past eight years, the (...)
It isn't enough to use so-called less destructive conventional weapons in unjust wars that decimate hundreds of thousands, as took place in Afghanistan and Iraq and is happening in Syria?
It isn't enough to wash your hands of your responsibilities (...)
Last November, Russia declared a special initiative to hold a conference on Syria — called initially the Syrian People's Congress and then the Syrian National Dialogue Congress — in the Russian city Sochi with tripartite sponsorship comprising (...)
This view that Egypt and Russia are headed towards a long-term strategic relationship is supported by several facts within the Arab region and broader changes going on across the world order. Both spheres demand we look to the future with a (...)
War and chaos are bad options, and choosing one of them is like choosing between death by hanging and death through starvation. Both of them lead to death.
Concerning Egypt, it is against both against war and chaos and, to put things straight, it is (...)
Egypt experienced the taste of both wins and losses last month. The big win came via the national football team when it won in a very difficult match that qualified it directly to participate, after 28 years absence, in the next World Cup to be held (...)
In the light of the results of the population census announced a few days ago, there is no excuse for executive officials collaborating with specialised experts not to draw conclusions, and accurately identify the social transformations that Egypt (...)
The terrorism that involves running people over and stabbing them is not just a fantastical idea. It has become a reality, in several locationsand in several countres at the same time. There is no difference between a Middle Eastern, African or Arab (...)
I wouldn't have imagined that one day I would write about Lebanese racism that some incite publicly and shamelessly and that is practised by many in largesse and a good-natured manner as if it is a recipe for superiority and surpassing past (...)
Since the very first moment that four states – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates – announced their boycott of Qatar, followed by the leaking by the latter of the 13 demands presented by these countries to the Kuwaiti (...)
What's happening in relation to the Qatari crisis clarifies to a great extent that the Arab region is in a state of severe liquidity.
There is a re-positioning in regional relations and behind it there are precursors for international changes that (...)
I was not surprised by the development which took place last month in Yemen, or rather in its southern governorates, where Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, Aden's former governor, who was dismissed by President Mansour Hadi, formed a transitional council for (...)
Sparring has returned between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel. Mutual threats in which candid and harsh words have been exchanged, reveal what the situation would look like if the two sides became entangled in a military confrontation, whether one (...)
With the beginning of US President Donald Trump's term, it seems that the world is on the threshold of a new stage of globalisation in which compulsory integration is receding in some states and societies within a global economic order that first (...)
Everyone is in one boat and instead of moving forward, some parties are insisting on remaining at square one. These contradictions and disparities among Arabs have today become commonplace.
Naturally, differences in approach on issues do not mean (...)
Using tough and shocking language, both in vocabulary and content, used many times against broad sections of Americans themselves and against symbols of the ruling establishment, Donald Trump has presented himself as offering a different (...)
A key critique of JASTA is that it gives US domestic law precedence over the international agreements that regulate diplomatic relations, and overrides the sovereign rights and immunity of a country that protect it from being prosecuted.
This (...)
With the American presidential elections nearing, the gap between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump has started to narrow.
The latest opinion survey conducted in August revealed that the gap narrowed to 3 points (...)
Despite just criticism leveled at parliament, sometimes it hits its target even before the mission is complete. I am referring to the fact-finding commission formed by parliament to investigate the squandering of public funds during the collection (...)
The Arab reality is marked by urgency; it lacks a compass, and is being infiltrated from all sides.
The urgency of Arabs does not need further explanation. Everything around us leads to this description, starting with the loss of key Arab countries (...)
During the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and senior officials – known in the media as the trial of the century – defence lawyer Farid El-Deeb stood up to rebut the accusations against his client. He denied Mubarak gave any orders (...)
In his address marking the celebration of Laylat Al-Qadr by the Ministry of Religious Endowments, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi mentioned non-Muslims in Western countries who malign Islam as a religion and Mohammed as the good prophet (PBUH). Then (...)
The fate of Iraq as a united country is at stake, and it is most likely veering rapidly towards actual partition based on sectarian affiliation. This would destroy all historic and geographic bonds exactly along the lines of maps that emerged at the (...)
The twin and yet opposed notions that El-Sisi suffered electorally by refusing to acede to NDP demands, or that the people boycotted the elections because they await the return of Morsi, are empty urban myths
At moments of general uncertainty, urban (...)