In a research paper, I am currently preparing, I determined that there were decisions made by some opinion-making circles in the West that blame Egypt and Egyptians occasionally, then look for justifications for those claims later. The presidency of (...)
The chemical bombing of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria was a golden opportunity for Trump's administration to convey three messages.
The first message is an internal one: the US president was like a bad machine—talks much, does little. He only fulfilled a (...)
In political science and international relations, among the approaches used in analysing human relations from the individual to the national level is what is known as "political communication."
Supporters of this approach say that many of the (...)
The phone call between the two presidents, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Donald Trump, and most importantly, the awaited visit by Al-Sisi to Washington both have several reasons that can be categorised into two segments.
First, the regional perspective. (...)
First reason: the electoral college
The United States presidential election is an indirect election. Citizens of the US cast ballots for members of the electoral college, known as electors. These electors then in turn cast direct votes, known as (...)
This article neither responds nor is even remotely interested in the televised report broadcast by Qatar's Al-Jazeera about conscription or compulsory drafting in the Egyptian army. This goes back to many reasons, but foremost because the virus only (...)
Some people adopt points of view based on a somewhat ideological basis. At the moment, some people either accept or refuse the idea of obtaining a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite many countries having made good use of their (...)
I've written before about this subject, but there is something that prompts me to ask these questions again.
Are all those who criticise the regime considered opponents of the government? Are all those who are opponents of the government put in a (...)
I will start by stating two quotes of the British icon Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." It means that if democracy is the worst, then other forms (...)
When James Madison and his fellow founding fathers of America came up with the idea of federalism, they did not intend it to be based on a religious or ethnic basis. American federalism was based on full citizenship and freedom, legally and (...)
How can we reconcile with those who cannot come to terms with themselves?
This is a question for those who call for reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, when they themselves cannot accommodate their mistakes and unite their visions on how to (...)
Muslims in Europe are always charged with every terrorist incident occurring in Europe, even before conducting any investigation. As I wrote before: "You are paying the price for our politicians' errors".
My first point is, a terrorism tree grows (...)
Many have raised questions about the reason behind the dollar crisis. Fortunately, financial analyst Nady Azzam explained the details behind this issue in an article on his page, which I quote here:
* The state's dollar resources at the end of 2015 (...)
Should we be held accountable for what we say?
Several similar incidents are reminiscent of the sacking of the Minister of Justice Ahmed Al-Zind. Public figures were transferred to courts or judged by public opinion due to controversial statements, (...)
In a previous article, I wondered: why would a soldier take off his military uniform and surrender his gun to leave his position to his enemies in the middle of a battle? And why would another soldier go to the battlefield when he knows very well (...)
As we take a closer look at the root causes of our problems, rather than their outward manifestations, we find that our society is contending with 10 conflicts that have so far evaded satisfactory solutions. These conflicts caused the 25 January (...)
Newspapers were recently filled with headlines about President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's meeting with the Council of Ulema (Religious Scholars) of Egypt to discuss, among other topics, the crisis of conscience and the decline of morals in Egyptian (...)
Egypt is in the grip of a complex and multifaceted crisis. The country is like a sick person who refuses to admit his ignorance and resists or attacks anyone who tries to open his eyes to the nature of his illness.
Three thinkers can help us (...)
Bahi Hassan, in an article in Al-Masry Al-Youm, discusses the state of Egypt in light of a range of global indexes. His report is not a mere compilation of statistics in various fields, or a lament on our deteriorating circumstances.
Rather, it (...)
The Egyptian government held the power to corrupt its people and then to punish them on charges of corruption. This was the result, in a nutshell. The details follow.
Egyptian government bureaucracy turned the Egyptian into “a thief in spite of (...)
Scholars at George Washington University have developed a multifaceted index to assess how countries around the world (as opposed to individuals) comply with core Islamic values. The Islamicity Index, as it is called, focuses on Islamic values (...)
I still count myself among those who believe that the Muslim Brotherhood youth are victims of their leaders, men who said one thing and did another and who made countless promises only to break them.
I also hope that the government takes advantage (...)
Following my recent meeting with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, I hold that his first year in power entailed five major tasks. The first of these tasks was management of the affairs of government.
The others were strengthening the foundations of (...)
Registering courageous stances instead of offering practical solutions creates false heroes who only manage to stay afloat because, like balloons, they are filled with hot air.
The “revolutionados” lost their chance because they were not fighting (...)
One is forced to underscore, again, some evident truths. As I wrote during the Mubarak era and again during the Morsi era, I reiterate in the Al-Sisi era — democracy is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult of all (...)