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Latest in Tag: maher hamoud
Editor’s letter: Voting for God
On a 40 minute Metro ride from New Marg station to Saad Zaghloul, trying to avoid the traffic jams across the city caused by anti- and pro-Morsy protests, the political discussions among the passengers are revealing. In Cairo’s underground system, in which every carriage is always stuffed with hundreds of average Egyptians, people are constantly …
Editor’s letter: Egypt’s political lag
Morsy with his behaviour and political tactics, is not very different from almost all other political groups in Egypt
Editor’s letter: The collective shame of a massacre
Why does commemorating the anniversary of Mohamed Mahmoud massacre hurt? It’s a simple and valid question to ask in trying to better understand the deadly violence that broke out again on the clashes’ first anniversary and put things in context. I believe that what makes such a massacre special and different from other ones committed …
Editor’s letter: Smells like Nazif
Going through Hesham Qandil’s plan for development until 2022 makes you feel that Ahmed Nazif, Mubarak’s prime minister currently imprisoned for corruption charges, was a genius after all. Qandil’s plan is basically jsut an Ikhwanised imitation of the Mubarak-Nazif one. It uses the same language and suggests the same backward thinking. Qandil’s vision of development …
Editor’s letter: Mubarakonomics
Remember people chanting “Bread, freedom and social justice” twenty months ago? Remember how brilliant it felt summing up all what we needed in a Post-Mubarak Egypt? How does this same and exact slogan feel to your ears now? I guess quite kitsch. Simply, too much shouted and no steps ever taken towards its realisation. Mubarak’s …
Editor’s letter: Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust
Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust
Editor’s letter: Mohamed Morsy Mubarak
It seems that Morsy has stumbled upon Mubarak’s governance manual somewhere in the presidential palace
Editor’s letter: The media and sexual violence
Think twice before you create a monster from your imagination that later becomes real, and reflects the whole of society on the same mirror
Editor’s letter: Cover up woman
Women are always to blame for whatever happens to them, in almost every culture and religion
Editor’s letter: Chess on a backgammon board
It is a long an incomprehensible messy chess-backgammon game in which we are forced to watch or sometimes play soldiers
Editor’s letter: Irreversible optimism
We don’t let ourselves get stuck with these miserable realities on the ground, simply because we look to the future. Not to the near future, but to the medium- and long-term.
Sliding toward climate catastrophe
Unprecedented heatwaves in Russia, fatal floods in Pakistan, the breaking up of the Greenland ice-sheet. The coincidence and severity of such natural disasters in recent months has prompted renewed debate about the role of global warming, and whether such crises are merely a foretaste of things to come. Scientists emphasize that there is no hard …
Illegal Immigration
Minister’s bodyguard attacks reporter before questioning on Van Gogh theft
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for United Journalists called on Egypt’s Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni to take all necessary action against one of his bodyguards for attacking a photo journalist. Amr Mustafa, a photographer at the independent daily Al-Dostor newspaper, was trying to snap a picture of Hosni as he entered the North …
Still awaiting the momentum for change
At the end of July, President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visited Beirut together in what was widely perceived as a successful attempt to quell yet another artificially inflated Lebanese political crisis. Apart from the jarring sight of Syria’s president in Beirut for the first time since he withdrew his …
What global warming?
ENPPI aiming for league title after Zamalek win
CAIRO: ENPPI’s ambitions for the current season are sky high, according to assistant manager Mahmoud Saleh. The petroleum side came back from behind to stun Zamalek 3-1 on Monday and climb to third place in the Egyptian league table. While the victory has marked their first-ever triumph over the Whites, ENPPI coach Saleh believes it …
Crumbling Arab world?
Seen from outside, the Arab world looks like it is about to crumble. Four Arab states — Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia — are facing the threat of territorial disintegration. One country, Lebanon, has settled for losing its independence; another, Palestine, is losing hope to win it. The Arab League is unable to react effectively …
Resolution 194: The Achilles heel of the Arab Peace Initiative
Israel’s chief reservation regarding the Arab Peace Initiative is the way in which the text addresses the issue of Palestinian refugees. Specifically, the Initiative calls upon Israel to affirm: "achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194." Israelis have largely rejected …
The Dear Leader cleans house for the Young General
SEOUL: There was a time, not long after the Cold War’s end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon collapse. The sudden death in 1994 of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the tyrannical, economically disastrous North Korean experiment, reinforced this belief. That was then. Today, no one can credibly say that North Korea’s …
Mohsen Saleh sues Smouha chairman
CAIRO: Former Egypt coach Mohsen Saleh has filed a lawsuit against Farag Amer, president of promoted side Smouha, for ‘slander and false accusations’. Saleh took charge of Smouha, who secured their first-ever top-flight spot last season, this summer. However, he resigned from his post after the team’s maiden Egyptian Premier League appearance, which saw them …
Kamal Zakher walks out of Al-Wafd over alleged connections with Brotherhood
CAIRO: Coordinator of the Secular Copts group Kamal Zakher resigned from Al-Wafd Party on Monday in objection to what he described as connections between the party and the Muslim Brotherhood. He accused Al-Wafd of “giving up the party’s secular-based pillars that call for the principles of national unity.” In an email sent to Mounir Fakkry …
‘Arab and Peace’ is not an oxymoron
Earlier this summer I was in Jerusalem meeting with various officials and catching up with old friends. Minutes after meeting a friend, a former high-up official in Israel’s Foreign Ministry, he ran back to see me. "Alon, come quick, you have to speak with this guy," he told me. After our meeting, he had walked …
Eritrean death toll on Egypt-Israel border rises to seven
EL-ARISH: An Eritrean woman shot in clashes with smugglers and police on Egypt’s border with Israel earlier in the week died of her injuries Sunday, raising the death toll to seven, a security official said. The woman was among a group of African migrants who were trying to sneak into Israel from Egypt on Friday …
Egypt allows Libyan aid into Gaza Strip
EL-ARISH: Egypt allowed 200 tons of medical aid unloaded from a Libyan ship into the blockaded Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave, an official said on Wednesday. A further nine trucks loaded with foodstuffs brought by the aid ship, the Jerusalem 5, will be sent to Gaza through an Israeli crossing with Egypt, said North Sinai governor’s …
IDC’s ‘Smart IT Buyers’ forum kicks off on Monday
CAIRO: The International Data Corporation (IDC) will be hosting a forum on Aug. 2 in Cairo to demonstrate how IT buyers can make shrewd business decisions in the next 18 months in the context of the ongoing financial crisis. The “IDC IT Managers Forum 2010: The Smart IT Buyer” event is regarded as timely by …