In 2011, Ethiopia seizing on Egypt's post-revolution political uncertainty put into motion its plans to build a massive $4.8 billion hydropower dam — known as the Grand Renaissance Dam — along the Blue Nile river within its own borders despite (...)
LAST week, the message of the two-hour live-TV presidential meeting in Cairo was clear: Egyptian views out there to solve the nation's water crises with Ethiopia are as mediocre as that of the government's or even worse; some were calling for the (...)
Would any rational person conclude that Canada is a bad country if every year it produces 30 violent criminals (about one for every one million Canadians)?
Would anyone assume that all university professors in any country are potential sex-offenders (...)
Last week on May 15, the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the disaster that befell Palestinians when Israel was founded Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) held a demonstration at the Human Rights Monument in Ottawa. This was (...)
Concern for the truth, combined with a personal loyalty to one's faith, tend to keep the believers of one religion at a distance from those who adhere to another.
If this distance is rigidly maintained over time, communication usually breaks down, (...)
In life, you meet few people for brief times but you wish you had known them for years. At the top of my list is the late Sheikah Ghanima Al-Marzouq of Kuwait. Although she was not from the royal family, everyone called her Sheikah as she was a (...)
Recently I visited major Indian cities with large Muslim populations. Not too many people know that India has the largest Muslim minority in the world.
India's Muslims are over 135 millions, making over 13% of the over one billion total population (...)
My frequent visits to Saudi Arabia were for religious purposes, to perform Hajj or Umrah, or to lecture on microchip design or to chair or attend international conferences. But never had I visited its places famous for their natural beauty – until (...)
In a recent lecture at Toronto's Ryerson University, as part of five-city Canadian tour, Afif Safieh, the most senior Ambassador of the Palestinian Diplomatic Corps, stressed the need for the international community to respect international law, (...)
There are too many signs that Morsi is leading Egypt to a disaster. Each one of these signs on its own may not make you conclude that the disaster is coming soon but these signs in total can convince anyone that the disaster is coming sooner than (...)
Why can't the Obama administration call Egypt's Mohamed Morsi out for what he is – an elected-president-turned-a-dictator?
Last year on Thursday November 22, a new dictator was born. Egypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater (...)
November 22, 2012 was a black day in the short history of the two year old Egyptian revolution. It was the day when Morsi gave himself absolute powers and turned into a dictator.
Before that date most Egyptians, including those who did not vote for (...)
Two years have gone since Egypt's peaceful revolution of January 25 has impressed the world by calling for freedom, equality, democracy, economical development, social justice and human dignity. As proud as I was in 2011 and 2012, I participated (...)
Two years have gone since Egypt's peaceful revolution of January 25 has impressed the world by calling for freedom, equality, democracy, economical development, social justice and human dignity. As proud as I was in 2011 and 2012, I participated (...)
One of the major festivities of Ahmedabad is the international kite festival that is celebrated every year on the 14th of January. I was there.
Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in his final testament: “I thought I have discarded much of past tradition and (...)
During my recent visit to India, I was pleased to learn that Cyberabad is the name appropriately given to the new high-tech area of the historical city of Hyderabad.
The city of Hydrabad, some 600km southeast of Mumbai on the banks of the Musi River (...)
During my recent visit to India, I was pleased to learn that Cyberabad is the name appropriately given to the new high-tech area of the historical city of Hyderabad.
The city of Hydrabad, some 600km southeast of Mumbai on the banks of the Musi River (...)
In the 1950s as a young boy growing up in Egypt I admired the leadership of Nehru of India and Nasser of Egypt. Both men were instrumental in building up their countries after years of British occupation and exploitation.
Africans and Arabs looked (...)
On January 25, no one knows what will come of Egypt's two year old revolution. But many Egyptians for sure know that a great robbery of their revolution has taken place and are determine to reclaim it back.
The revolution was not started by (...)
On January 25, no one knows what will come of Egypt's two year old revolution. But many Egyptians for sure know that a great robbery of their revolution has taken place and are determine to reclaim it back.
The revolution was not started by (...)
I feel sad every time I visit a country which got its independence from Imperial Europe at about the same time as my country of birth, Egypt, but had made far better progress towards democracy, economical development and social justice. Malaysia and (...)
The current political crises in Egypt, if not resolved soon, will lead at best to zero progress in both the economical and social justice files or to a civil war as a worse outcome.
The crises can be summed up as follows: both the process of writing (...)
The recent Palestinian-Israeli conflict raises old issues but they all are ignored by the Western media, Western politicians and Zionist Jews.
Is Israel a colonial-settler state, and the Palestinians are colonially oppressed people? Supporters of (...)
To compare the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Syria is a difficult task and to answer: where each country is hiding is even more difficult. To get a hands-on information about these five countries I thought I need to listen to (...)
The Arab Spring is on the mind of my friends Dr Qais Ghanem and Elie Nasrallah as much as on the mind of Arab expatriates living in the West but with a difference.
The two men recently held a book launch at Ottawa's St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox (...)