If anybody has been turning on the TV and watching sports, they would have noticed the Olympics that have been going on in South Korea these past two weeks. First let s state the obvious, yes, these are the winter Olympics. But even so, that didn t prevent a lot of Californians and Europeans from competing in these games. So, I will not penalize the Egyptians because we do live in a desert after all! But you know when I think about the Summer Olympics, where were the Egyptians?

Recently, the Interior Ministry arrested Abdel Menaam Abou El-Fotuh, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, also the leader and President of the Masr Al-Qawyia Party. Before that the army also arrested Samy Anan, the ex-chief of the military when the military council governing Egypt was forced to retire in 2013, when the Brotherhood was in power. Actually, most of what we call “Liberal Parties” announced its support for Sisi for a second term. They were adamant that this stage in the country requires a strong man like Sisi. It appears they forgot all the principles that the Constitution is built on, such as every party has the right to be in power.

The operations that the Egyptian Army announced yesterday, is not that from Turkey. The time and amount of soldiers taking part in this military operation puts forth many questions. Lately, we have all come to know that the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs had mentioned that Turkey will search for gas and oil on the Egyptian Mediterranean border, claiming that they have the right to that area.

In his last speech, Sisi tried to warn Egyptians from what he called, “The evil.” Sisi confirmed and emphasized that he will prevent any corrupted person from sitting on the Chair of Presidency. Sisi was speaking as if he was a dictator who can allow and prevent whoever he wants from becoming President. I was hoping that Sisi would rely on the law and courts to prevent any corrupted people from electing themselves as a President. However, it appears that Sisi is relying only on himself, much like Dictators would.

I have talked in the last article about the danger of leaving the political life empty especially that during the last four years of Sisi period, we didn t see any try to refresh the political life. What does this mean? In my opinion that means that Sisi wants to run for more than 2 periods and that for sure requires to amend the constitution and that what we can see and feel from the last statement by the chief of the parliament.

Recently, I had the opportunity to celebrate New Years eve and Epiphany in a church that I had not visited in a while. Looking around at the congregation, I found myself wondering, “Is everyone as nervous as I am?” Yes, I am not going to stop going to church just because something might happen. But at the same time, what if something does happen?

In the coming few months the presidential election will occur and from what we can see that the current regime doesn t have any will to improve the political life or even consider it. For the first time in the history we see people from political parties announce their support to a person outside of this party.

Any country measures its success by how much control it has on the most aspects of the life starting from the agriculture control to control the rules and laws that could be used in the court. Having said that, I can t see any control to the Egyptian government on any of the mess that Egypt live in right now. Lately, I had chance to visit one of the villages I get used to visit when I was child, the village that was full of green and plants; I was surprised to see it full of ugly building and cement.

Sudan announced lately that it is going to give one of its islands to Turkey for unknown reasons and for unknown time. This Island located at the red sea which means that this action will have a conflict of interest because Egypt also has a long border on the red sea.

The last sectarian events happened in Atfeeh, showed without any doubt that we will far away from being state of law or for coptic to be a real citizen. The culture of hatred still dominating the egyptian scene because Egypt still water the plants with the same source of water which make the thoughts and the ideas polluted against the coptis.

Last week one of the wonderful men died in state after long battle with disease. This is Dr. Tharwat Bassily. I had no chance to meet personally Dr. Tharwat, however, I meet his deeds and heard about his amazing work to help everyone, not just the poor but everyone. Life sometimes is tough when god people leave us, but we will always keep them in our mind because they had great impact in our life and our future.

The US president made a decision last week announcing “Jerusalem “as official Capital for Israel. Once president Trump announced that, the whole Arab region started to attack and condemn this step proclaiming that will undermine the peace process between Israel and Palestine. In fact, the Arab world as we get used doesn’t know anything except yelling and shouting or destroying properties to explain their anger or to express a political opinion. This is our big issue in the Arab region that we don’t know how to express our opinion in peaceful way and use the legal political channels to take steps against what we don’t like. Unfortunately, the world and the international system doesn’t work by this way, which means if you have something against any nation, there is legal and political channels you can go to, or if you have big influence on the world, you

Yesterday the draw for the world cup 2018 resulted that Egypt will face Uruguay, Russia, and Saudi Arabia in the world cup which supposed to be held on June 2018. Many people and sportive expert started to be pessimistic about meeting Saudi Arabia and Russia especially that the tournament will be held in Russia which will make it hard in Egypt to meet Russia among their fans. Having said that, as a professional team we have to act professional and do our best and let the world respect our team through a balanced plan between attack and defense. Egyptian team has a lot of professional player which supposed to help us to play good performance and do our best to reach the next round of the tournament. In conclusion, I want all Egyptian players to raise the slogan of” Yes we can”, and to not be just a slogan but also to believe in it.

First of all I want to introduce my condolence to all Egyptian on the last accident happened and killed more than 300 Egyptian and injured more than 100 innocent person in one of the most brutal terrorist attack happened against Egyptian may be in its whole history. Moreover, I want to emphasis that the whole world is sympathize with Egyptian against this Berber attack that we were only seeing it in Iraq but not in Egypt.

The biggest thing has captured my thinking lately is what will happen after the president Sis finish his 2 terms as president? As you can see I already assumed that President Sisi would be in power for a second term because I don t have any doubt about that. In fact, When I ask this question this doesn t mean that Egypt doesn t have anyone can be president but because as we can see that the political life is dead and we can see no one that he can shoulder the responsibility in this hard condition that Egypt has.

We live our life in this world while we are surrounded with rules and regulations, we try as much as we can to follow the rules and obey the regulation; however, sometimes we feel that some rules or regulation are unfair and needs to be reconsidered. We always need to remember that people like us make these rules and the regulation and we always need to listen to other people opinion about these rules and regulation simply because if the rules and the regulation didnt make peoples life better so we need to change it.

The retiree Egyptians after long life of hard working are the most people in need and suffers nowadays. Having a look on the average pension for a person in Egypt, we will find it is roughly 1500 Egyptian pound. And no one can deny that this amount of money before the last wave of the inflation could help the person to live and manage his life even it was little bit tight. Having said that, this amount for the current time barely can be enough for utilities and medicine the old people have to get in that age.

Sexual harassment in Egypt is worse than the economic crisis that hit Egypt in the last 6 years, and I will talk about the reasons behind this Phenomenon, however, none of these reasons should be an interpretation to the harasser. Before talking about the reasons, I Want to assure that sexual harassment is everywhere including the developed country not only Egypt, but the only problem we face is the increase of this Phenomenon among Egyptian.

The last terrorist attack happened lately which lead to more than 20-st soldiers killed and dozens injured showed without any doubt that Egypt faces a real enemy. Before going to the details of this horrible attack, I want to introduce my condolence to the families and the friends of the soldier and to all Egyptian.

Unfortunately, there is a Coptic priest killed yesterday in a series of persecution against Copts and physically and emotionally. And shame on the media which tried to cover on the accident by saying that the person who killed the priest is crazy one. In fact, we in all our problems in Egypt we try to cover it until it be a mountain you cant reach and no one can reach, instead of facing the problem and trying to understand why the fanaticism increased in Egypt lately, we try to just say “ the person who killed the priest was crazy”

On this Sunday all Egyptian will be around their TVS waiting their dream to reach the world cup to come true. I can assure that not less than 60 % of population will be united on one goal and watching the same event this day. Last time we went to the world cup was in 1990, I remember this event as it was yesterday, when all Egyptian was so excited to watch their team playing in one of the most important sportive event in the world.