opinion

June 24, 2023

Downplaying NATO: Rethinking the significance of the alliance

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) ex-chief and current advisor to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, Anders Rasmusse during a June…

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June 6, 2023

It’s Still Round

Paris is an attractive city year-around. I was visiting for two nights staying at the George V, a stone’s throw…

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May 31, 2023

A conversation with an old friend

His voice came as it had come every time during nearly thirty years of our friendship, and after months of…

Opinion

May 22, 2023

Peace and Light

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” This famous quote was said, of course,…

Opinion

February 26, 2023

The potential of Egypt’s media as a formidable ‘smart’ power

All countries across the globe seek to be powerful enough to achieve its interests inside and outside its borders smoothly,…

Opinion

April 24, 2022

Preliminary thoughts on our economic crisis

I don’t think anyone denies that Egypt is going through a severe economic crisis. Compounded by the global upheaval of…

Opinion

January 26, 2021

Opinion: Escaping the Cairo Eye

The fact that Cairo is not attractive from above is no secret for those who look at it from the…

Opinion

January 18, 2021

Silicon Valley: the ultimate goal, or the beginning of the end? (Part one)

I was watching a promotional clip of Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former US President Barack Obama. He was discussing his…

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December 7, 2020

Islamic Rationalism: A Missed Opportunity?

On one of my visits to Germany, while walking in the streets of Munich, I bumped into a sheikh whom I know…

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December 3, 2020

Their existing secularism and our aspired secularism

George Holyoake’s 1896 publication English Secularism describes secularism as follows: “Secularism is a code of duty pertaining to this life, founded on…