An interview with Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman Yusuf
He's an Egyptian poet who realized his poetic gift amidst the massacre of qana in Lebanon. The young poet realized his gift at a very early age He published his first collection when he was only 22. What really makes his poetry special is his desire to make his poems a reflection of reality. He's an Egyptian poet who went to Lebanon in the aftermath of the massacre of qana. When he wanted to write
What has happened?
What has happened?When nations try to answer a history question, they write what has happened just as it did, and then people - across different generations - come to learn what has happened.
It is true that (what has happened) can be considered through many accounts, which may contradict, but at the end, a common denominator can still exist between all novels, major events, and the most influential
Will a Joke Turn Serious?
When Khedive Ismail* had his back against the wall, swamped by debts due to his corruption, foolishness and squandering, and when he became in need of a backer to strengthen him in the face of the pashas and the British, he decided to take the Egyptian people as his backer and, at the same time, appear before the civilized world as the head of a constitutional state. Hence he decided to establish
Coronavirus: Our world is caught on the precipice between freedom and tyranny
We’re all caught up in watching news about the coronavirus pandemic that has suddenly befallen our planet. We try to remember what our lives were like before this and anticipate how they will be afterwards, all the while fearing that this situation may never end. The deadly virus initially emerged in tyrannical China, which apparently succeeded in defeating it through various means, including its
From the opinion page to the crime page
I always keep track of the opinion page in the Arab and foreign press! I used to - and still do - consider articles on this page to be (the brain of the community). The richer this page is, the deeper and the more secure and respectful the society is. Moreover, the more the writers are serious - especially young writers - the more vital and pure the society is! I have been a broadcaster in two television
Talking about interests 2
We talked last week about the choice of interests (benefits), how individuals, groups and nations practice such a choice, and that everyone chooses the interests that suit their cultural and moral values. Today, we will talk about the prioritizing of interests, which should be very clear when it comes to states, Actually, it is the people who should decide
(1) Talking about interests
We get engaged in many political conversations, on a variety of topics, and among the frequently used sentences in such dialogues (especially when we talk about our troubled Arab countries): (politics means interests), or ( the country X is only driven by its interests), along with other repeated expressions echoed by everyone without realizing significant differences.
When my
The equivocal days of the Egyptian revolution
A lot of the Egyptian revolution days are quite equivocal!
They are the days where many events are taking place
You find those who magnify certain events to conclude a particular result, while others magnify other events to reach
Where is the legitimate president?
What crime can a legitimate president commit to be kept in prison for years without being seen? without anyone visiting! without knowing where is he detained exactly! without knowing how is he! and without being allowed to see even his associates!
Great treason? spying? killing? Mass murder? Massacres against humanity?
All these charges have been committed by many thugs in the ancient,
Islands and peninsulas in our region and their conditions
In our Arab region, there are several flaming issues, which are connected to each other and have a wide regional influence. They have reflections on the Egyptian and Palestinian issues, and I wouldn't be exaggerating if I say that evolutions in Islands and peninsulas in our region affect the whole world and may even ignite a new world war.
We'll start by looking at them all.
First: the islands
The Qatari crisis and what follows
The Qatari crisis and what follows
My dear friend is a Qatari citizen and his wife is a Saudi, and according to the recent decisions in Qatar, his wife is forced to abandon him and to leave her three children (including a baby who is a couple of weeks old) and to go to Saudi Arabia alone, without her children (because they hold the Qatari nationality). Otherwise, and by the regime of his Majesty
A cup of coffee at the airport
The coffee at the airport never gives the drinker what he wants...!
He is either in a hurry to catch up with his plane, or worried about the status of travel, He might be restricted because of a problem ...the weather conditions ... security reasons ... etc.
So it is the rarest that such a coffee would give you comfort at the airport.
Technically, the majority of airports do not offer coffee
When will the chaos end?
When the deposed president, Hosni Mubarak, said (it is either me or Chaos) was not threatening to ignite artificial chaos, but rather he was stating a reality that he knew according to his understanding of the nature of the Egyptian state and according to the regional arrangements which he and his regime have taken part in making.
However, the response of the great Egyptian people was to prevent
Presidential elections between reality and illusion
Elections are a means of change ... not an end in themselves ... just like a car, and we agree that a car is a means of transportation, no one doubts that a car is a means of transportation, and no one doubts that elections are a means of change.
However, can you ride your car and then run into the sea?
The car is a land transport vehicle that runs on land only. And not even on any land. Most
How do we confront the third of July's regime?
At the beginning, we tried to confront the military coup with demonstrations, but this produced great losses, though they were great championships, however the final result was thousands of martyrs, hundreds of thousands of injured, detainees, pursued and exiles.
The third of July’s military coup then turned into a governing system, and we now aim to confront this regime in all forums through
Braveheart
Apart from the issue of what is fact and what is fiction in the story of William Wallace—much of the film does not match historical events--yet the story is very realistic, and it is one of the movies that had a great impact on my life. One of the aspects that left the most impact on me is how William Wallace got involved in the resistance against the British.
Wallace tried in every possible
The Sad Connection between the Dead and the Detained
Let us face the truth.
The military rule, which extended for sixty years, has deformed us. We have become a nation where some of its citizens deny the most basic human rights.
During the thirty years in which a deposed president called Mubarak ruled us, he carried out an organized plan to destroy all state institutions. More grievously, he destroyed this society’s values within the hearts
Believing the Egyptian Media
With a smile of surprise, a respectable, non-veiled, decently dressed lady walked towards me, in her lovely fifties’ beauty and the dark skin of a typical Egyptian mother. She stopped in front of me and asked, "Sir, are you such-and-such?"
“Yes,” I replied.
“Didn’t you go to Qatar a week ago? And so fled from the case against you?” she inquired.
“Who said that?” I asked her.
“So-and-so,
Black Wednesday
Is there any serious evidence of the existence of heavy weapons in the Rabea sit-in? The helicopters that flew over the two sit-ins* could have photographed any anti- aircraft with great ease! As for light weapons, these can be planted, the way the police is used to planting hash pieces on anyone they want to frame! Why did the regime decide to break up the two sit-ins in this manner? The answer is
Benefit Today, Regret Tomorrow
Egypt’s military-coup government took out loans of billions of dollars from a number of countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. That included aid in kind, such as oil and kerosene, and deals of riot resistance weapons. This is known to everyone.
What is not known to many is that the torrent of aid has stopped flowing, or nearly so. There are several reasons, most importantly
Fear of Staying Alive
I used to think I’d remain young all my life, for the sole reason that I felt I would die early.
And I used to think I wouldn’t have a long life. And I used to think this feeling would change as I aged. But what happened was that as I grew older I could smell death breathing closer onto my face.
Today a new year begins. I was among those who never bothered to count days and nights,
The Egyptian occupation of Iraq
Without any eloquent introductions, I would like to say that the American occupation of Iraq has become very costly. And certainly the American planners are now searching for a solution, which in the light of the current regional and international situation would mean one thing: "retreat". But a retreat here would only mean repositioning and decreasing the number of American troops. In other words,