The man is out of control. “Make America Great Again is his call. Its practical effect has been “Make America the World's Pariah.” US President Donald Trump may be impeached before too long, and his swagger in public may be to mask his fear of (...)
Here is a great Arab saying (in my translation): “Like a ram attacking a mountain, but breaking its horns and not the mountain.”
The Muslim Brotherhood, mixing faith with politics, has signed its death warrant for gradual extinction, not only in the (...)
Attributing instability to foreign conspiracies is like blaming household problems on absent neighbours. Conspiracy advocates are essentially escapists. They are also brainwashed by an old colonial narrative.
If a nation looks at itself from within, (...)
This article is not in praise of US President Donald Trump. Instead, it is a salutation for the doctrine of international humanitarian intervention.
This is easy to understand. When a state commits genocidal acts against its own citizens, it is (...)
Fake news, like fake material, is contrived to look like the real thing. Those who create it, especially in the age of social media, are fakers engaged in deception. Most fake news is the stuff from which propaganda is made. It is a cover for (...)
They don't look alike. But in being unfit to preside over America and Egypt, respectively, they match.
US President Donald Trump has put himself above the law, saying that in critical cases it does not apply to the president. The Muslim Brotherhood (...)
In the Middle East, the two most important cultures are the Egyptian and Persian civilisations. They have long stood as beacons of durable learning and contributed immeasurably to human progress.
With the resurgence of “firstness” (for example (...)
This is a “Made in America” American Spring and one quite different from the 2011 Arab Spring. Its participants are not the masses. They are the billionaires. Its ethos is not democracy: It is the gradual destruction of democratic institutions, with (...)
One would have to be blind not to see in the utterances of US President-elect Donald Trump and his coterie the launching of a war of cultures. A war against Islam, Blacks, Jews and all non-whites. Words have consequences, and appointments by Trump (...)
Following the non-merited victory of US President-elect Donald Trump in the presidential elections, there was elation in the Egyptian media in the form of a non-merited political victory in America causing euphoria in the local media caused by the (...)
What the founders of America feared has now happened. Those great men 240 years ago, all aristocrats and members of the educated elite, feared mob rule. So in the Constitution they built a firewall to prevent this called the Electoral College that (...)
In the Nile Valley, there have been at least two heroes of unity: One has been celebrated since 3100 BCE, while the other has been ignored since 1954 CE. History can be kind to some great leaders, yet unkind to other similarly great leaders.
In (...)
In the New Egypt, the legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood fell within only six months of its assumption of the presidency. Former president Mohamed Morsi came to power in June 2012 through popular elections, and soon the Brotherhoodisation of (...)
Not by lamentations, but by congratulations, should a former UN staff member like me greet the appointment of the new secretary-general. I have served under four of his predecessors: Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, Kurt Waldheim and Javier Perez de (...)
The more outrageous Republican Party US presidential elections candidate Donald Trump becomes, the bigger and louder are his rallies.
Like a train hurtling over a weak bridge towards a wreck, with the passengers elated by the inevitable catastrophe, (...)
The US legal measure the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which caused US President Barack Obama to use his veto and Congress to override it, is practically a legal hoax.
We are talking about law, not politics, and we are defending (...)
What a super weird phenomenon — that out of control bully Republican Party presidential elections candidate Donald J. Trump. The more he lies, the more he is believed by his public which glorifies under-education. And the greater the manifestations (...)
The Anglo-American orientalist Bernard Lewis was dead wrong when he asked "what went wrong with Islam." So was his disciple, the Somali Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an Islamophobe whose last of four books is entitled Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. Both of (...)
It began in the 19th century as a reform movement in Najd in central Arabia. By the late 20th century, Wahhabism had degenerated into a police theocracy and the near co-ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The great founder of the Kingdom, (...)
was one historic act by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, responding to 35 million voices calling on 30 June 2013 for deliverance. From every public square in Egypt, the chant against then President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to leave (...)
Sharia law, when coupled with ijtihad (reason applied to religious texts), has a lethal power. Against jihadism, that is, whether of the Islamic State (IS) group, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Nusra Front, the friends of Beit Al-Maqdis or Boko (...)
“There is no virtue in ignorance,” said US President Barack Obama, speaking at a commencement ceremony at Rutgers University, NJ, on 15 May. He was commenting on Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presidential elections frontrunner.
Rutgers is (...)
A mirror case is that of the Saudi islands of Tiran and Sanafir, for it mirrors a malaise in the Egyptian media as it lies or obfuscates under a new cover. This is the cover of “freedom of expression,” also known as “freedom of the press,” born in (...)
In Egypt under then President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, nobody could open his mouth. But under President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, everyone has a big loud mouth. This has been the case in “The Islands vs. Ignorance” case, ignorance compounded by the herd (...)
Even a reputable newspaper like The New York Times slips occasionally into the realm of the absurd. The unreasonable, the ridiculous, the war-like. Since its founding in 1851, its motto has been “All the News That's Fit to Print.”
Judging those (...)