Far from this ongoing conflict in Syria between the forces of the Syrian regime on one side and the terrorist militias and their successor Erdogan on the other, It is clear that the new Corona virus has decided to spread in some countries like China, Iran, South Korea, Italy and North Korea. They are clearly agree to disagree with the United States of America. There is a clear hostility between these countries and the American regime. Trump could not accept that the South Korean film to win the Oskar, even though everyone praised the movie and its makers and its idea. There is clear clashes between the USA and many countries of Europe, especially Italy. I know that the virus is spreading in many countries in the Gulf area and it America itself, but using a weapon may kill some of my soldiers, but it will kill much more on the other side. The point is that America may have invented and used this biological weapon against its enemies. The retarded regimes in such fascist countries provided a perfect space for the spread of the virus while its people are accepting death from the hand of God claiming having a great deal of faith.

Doctors and specialists in the manufacture of prosthetics recommended the necessity of establishing a specialized college equipped with the latest equipment and technical experts, and the abolition of taxes on these devices. One of the companies announced its agreement with the Ministry of Solidarity to support the installation of these parties for those who are not able as a kind of social responsibility. The experts called, during a press conference to strengthen the national industry, and to turn Egypt into an export center for the prosthetics in the Arab and African countries. They demanded to form a high committee of ministries of solidarity, health, financial and private sector experts, to develop a plan to improve the educational and industrial field for prosthetics. Dr. Khaled El-Deeb, Chairman of the Board of Directors Orthomedics for prosthetics announced cooperating with the Ministry of Social Solidarity to provide prosthetics for the poor who need them, as well as donating its products to the concerned authorities. I hope this great idea will be completed to literally change the lives of many people, along with to rehabilitate society, cities and streets to receive people with disability. This needs strong will and understanding rather than a college.

The Egyptian athlete Samar Hamza has recently won a gold medal in wrestling in Algeria, and she became the African champion in wrestling. Her medal was not the first for her, but she still dreams of earning an Olympic medal. Yet, her dream has become closer to the reality as she was qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Though Egypt has won several medals in wrestling, no woman has ever achieved an Olympic medal in the sport. Since Amsterdam 1928 to Rio de Janeiro 2016, Egypt won eight Olympic medals in wrestling. I wish the best of Samar and all Egyptian athletes who work hard to get medals and achieve new records for their country.

Egyptians have made several achievements in fencing and many of them won international competitions. In that account, we may hear about champions like Adham Moataz, the European gold medal for the fencing for young men, and Medhat Moataz, owner of the world bronze medal for the fencing. Now, there is a new generation of Egyptians who is not satisfied with achieving local titles, but works hard to win international competitions and the sky has become their limit. Fencing was the first Olympic game for the Egyptians to participate in when Ahmed Hassanein Pasha traveled to participate in the Stockholm Games in 1912. Yet, they waited exactly one hundred years before winning the first Olympic medal when Alaa Abu Al-Qasim won the London Games in 2012. I see a bright future for that game in Egypt with young competitive people seeking glory and working hard to raise the flag of their country. Greetings to the Egyptian fencing heroes and those responsible for reviving the sport in Egypt.

After everyone thought it came to an end, Trump decided to declare his peace plan causing great controversy among supporters and denouncers. Yet, nobody tried to read the situation through its two parties, one of them is approaching elections at the end of the year to be re-elected President of America, and is in bad need to get the support of the Jewish lobby in America. The second party is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been Prime Minister of Israel since 2009 and will enter this year an election to secure in which he tries to secure a majority in the Knesset, who almost lost his majority in the previous elections. He is also facing charges of corruption that may lead him and his wife to prison. On the other hand, we can find the recipients of the offer are seeking protection from Iran, such as the Gulf countries, and more countries are threatened, divided, torn apart or seeking American protection and fund. The Palestinians are also divided without a state and work under a weak government. Even Egypt is threatened by the Renaissance Dam though it offered a lot to the Palestinian cause. In short, the general situation for everyone is bad, and if it is a deal it is an electoral deal for its sponsors, and a protection deal for the Arab party. Politics is now a trade to give and take.

Dr. Mina Wagdy Ibrahim is a doctor who works at the Mercy Mosque Clinic in Safat al-Laban, Cairo. However it is a little bit strange to find a Christian doctor in an Islamic clinic, Dr. Mina decided to donate his time and work for free in service of the Muslims in the neighborhood. Head of the Islamic Sharia Association said that Dr. Mina made a good reputation by serving the people. Furthermore, one of the patients said that he found it strange in the beginning to deal with a Coptic Christian doctor, whose name is revealing his identity. Yet, the patient said he realized that Dr. Mina doesn’t differentiate between his patients based on their religion. Yes, there is no difference between people when it comes to illness. It is either you are human or not. I salute Dr. Mina and those who deal with him who realized there is no difference between people.

Egypt has several achievements in the field of sports. The most recent one was a gold medal for the Egyptian champion Ahmed El-Gendy who won the Polish International Championship for adults for the International Modern Pentathlon Union, which is comprising the contemporary sports of pistol shooting, fencing, swimming, horse riding and running. The 19 years old young man has big dreams to achieve to be the world champion in that hard challenge. Yet, he works hard to achieve them through spectacular performances and remarkable results in the sport.

In the new year, I will not write about personal achievements and heavenly gifts, but about the year that has passed from our lives. Each step we make takes us closer to the end of our life. This inevitable end that each man has to face, which is death. Such end means we will have to meet with God at the end, even if we don’t know when. God gives us a chance to make better relationship with him and with the others. Shall we benefit from such great opportunity in the new year? I hope we can use it since no guarantee that such chance will be on the table forever! Many happy returns on the new year and best wishes to fulfill your dreams and wishes in 2020.

I was happy to hear statement of Egypt’s Minister of Health, Dr. Hala Zayed, who said that Egypt has succeeded in providing most of the medicines in a national industry. She added that the ministry is keen to develop the medicine industry and its regulation and control of the market, and encourage local pharmaceutical industries, and the manufacture of medical supplies and cosmetics. During the opening of the first Al-Ahram conference for the pharmaceutical industry under the title: Challenges of the pharmaceutical industry, Zayed revealed that the local pharmaceutical production represents 80% and the imported is 20%, assuring that the industry has become one of the strategic industries that affect national security by all standards. She clarified that prices are affordable for the families and reasonable for the industry. One of the achievement in that account is the local industry was able to overcome the problem of insulin deficiency in Egypt after it succeeded in covering and providing all types of insulin, in addition to entering the pharmaceutical industry of oncology. It is worth mentioning here that the effective partnership between the government and the private sector led to manufacture and provide treatment for the virus C at a low price compared to the world average. I appreciate this great idea that relieved pain of many patients in Egypt.

President Sadat, had an old saying during the Middle East crisis and peace negotiations with Israel that ninety-nine percent of the cards were in the hands of the Americans. Sadat was right and, but the collapse of the Soviet Union led to confirm his saying and prove his wisdom. I wonder if he would remain in his vision today or would he change his mind? In the last five years, the Kremlin has been less interested in Russia s economic growth than in strengthening Russia s geopolitical influence. Back in 2014, following Russia s annexation of Crimea and its military intervention in eastern Ukraine, Moscow - imposed by economic sanctions - seemed isolated. Western leaders criticized President Putin believing that their criticism and the pressure of sanctions on the Kremlin would change the behavior of the Russian government, and even US President Barack Obama disregarded Russia as a regional power.

Abi Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, who won the Nobel Prize is a brilliant politician who has done a lot for his country. I like what he did even though he caused harm to Egypt by developing his country on our expenses. He resolved peace in the region, released political prisoners in Ethiopia, made a comprehensive reconciliation, and received in his office the opponents who were exiled and sentenced to death. He respected rights and freedoms and democracy and ended the state of emergency in the country as prat of the political reform policy. Abi Ahmed also won awards from religious leaders, as well as high international awards for his historic role in national unity and the establishment of internal peace in his country He excreted efforts to release Ethiopian detainees abroad and signed agreements with other countries to find several seaports for his Landlocked country. He reconciled with Eritrea and ended the border conflict with it and also agreed with them to use their ports, which means the neutralization of the most important ally of Egypt. He also signed an agreement with France to build a naval fleet for Ethiopia and train its staff and protect the country which means neutralizing Egypt s allies as well after conducting joint exercises with the US military in July. His government renewed the joint defense agreements with India, brought in the highest foreign direct investment in the entire East Africa region, convinced Chinese factories to move its textile industries in Ethiopia instead of Bangladesh after a crises, and persuaded Turkey to invest $ 2.5 billion in Ethiopia. He also gave China and other countries the opportunity to buy and lease agricultural land in the areas that will benefit from the Renaissance Dam Lake, which means they will be interested in completing the project for their own interests, not to mention the loans of the Chinese banks to complete the project. Furthermore, he allowed Chinese companies to invest in electricity and electronics projects which means their benefits are linked to the Renaissance dam. Ethiopian Airlines under his era became the first in Africa and made a net profit equivalent to 6 billion Egyptian pounds. He had a great role in spreading peace in southern Sudan and in northern Sudan, he had a very strong vital role in the Sudanese revolution and helped the military council and the rebels to reach the current agreement. This man made the greatest achievement for his country including freedom, national reconciliation, democracy, peaceful transfer of power, and many political reforms. He is only 42 years old and we can t compete with him.

At the time security services in Egypt seriously dealt with calls for a revolution and arrested many people and canceled a football match between Zamalek Egyptian team and Senegal, media was under great pressure as well that it couldn’t decide weather to cover the terrorist attack on security ambush in Sinai or to cover the celebrations of what we don’t know. On the other side, the president said to the people who welcomed him at the airport that nothing serious is happening and assured that he is following the procedures of randomly removing citizens from subsidy system, and ordered to stop such farce. On the other side, the Egyptian Parliament announced to discuss raising minimum wages and retirement wages. The president cleverly realized that revolutionary advocates and instigators of the country used rumors of corruption and building palaces to ignite the situation since the people are already suffering from bad economic conditions. The price of the US dollar is decreasing, but nobody feels such decrease and progress. He also realized that this was the reason behind the revolution of January 25, 2011.

Nabila Makram, Egypt s Minister of Migration and Egyptian Affairs Abroad, announced to sponsor the trip of the adventurer Ali Abdu who will traveled for 25.000 kilometers across Egypt to visit all Egyptian governorates on an electric bike. His trip comes to raise awareness of environmental issues and global warming and to spread the culture of electric vehicles in Egypt to preserve the environment and reduce pollution and fuel consumption. The trip is also sponsored by the Ministries of Youth, Sports and Military Production, in addition to the United Nations Development Program. Ambassador Makram said that the Egyptian adventure will also become an ambassador for the NO PLACE LIKE EGYPT campaign, which was launched by the ministry to promote Egypt abroad. His trip will draw attention to different places in Egypt, highlighting the Egyptian history and heritage. The videos and data of the trip will be used abroad to promote tourism in Egypt. The Minister also expressed her pride in the great achievements of Ali Abdu including his new Genes records for the longest driving distance of Motocross within 24 hours. I congratulate the minister on the great idea and positive thinking that will promote tourism in a brilliant way.

If you are a follower of the achievements of Egyptians, you must have seen the achievement of Dr. Mirna Hosni, a student of pharmacy at the British University in Egypt who achieved first place over 45 teams, while she stood alone in the competition. Mirna took only quarter of the time since she started late, which proves her achievement. Yet, this shows disrespect and recklessness of some officials concerning those who represent Egypt abroad. Those responsible didn t read the conditions carefully since the didn t notice that a team should consists of 5 members and not only one. I congratulate the Egyptian I and the Egyptian women on Mirna s achievement for what she did alone abroad.

Fan Jameel (beautiful art) Foundation, which supports heritage, education and arts, announced the implementation of a one-month summer program for the revival of traditional crafts in the tourist village of Tunis, Fayoum Governorate. Over the course of four weeks, the youngsters engage in a program of workshops focusing on the unique heritage of Fayoum Governorate. These workshops include Islamic arts, copper works, printing, and ceramics, which is one of the most popular activities in Fayoum. This free program is the first major project of Fan Jamil outside Cairo. The foundation was established in 2009 and offers a two-year program of handicrafts and design arts in a joint project between Fan Jamil, the Prince Charles School of Traditional Arts Foundation and the Cultural Development Fund of Egypt. It is worth mentioning that the village of Tunis offers the finest Egyptian hand-made pottery products.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson won the presidency of the ruling Conservative Party in Britain, prompting the British queen to commission him to form the government. Johnson s is known as the English version of Trump with his foolish and irresponsible responses and irresponsibility. Johnson is willing to move out of the EU even without an agreement break-set without deal The European legislator refuses to negotiate a new agreement just like the European Commission. Thus, he only try to get Britain out without agreement, which is a real catastrophe for the British people. Going out without an agreement would mean a complete collapse of the British economy. Thousands or even millions of Englishmen would lose their jobs. Hundreds of major European industrial companies with factories in Britain would have to withdraw from Britain and drug companies are no exception, which might cause the death of many patients who will not find their medicine. So the British find themselves inclined to repeat the dreaded referendum, in which they voted in favor of the exit, including the Remainers now group, who regretted accepting the divorce and want to take their yes back! In fact, Johnson has a mission impossible between changing the mind of the Europeans or changing the mind of the British Parliament to accept no agreement scenario that will bring a disaster to the economy and health sectors. Another war may erupt between the Northern and Southern Irelands, which could result in another war such as the one that was interrupted by the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In short, I hope that the English version of Trump wouldn t cause more disasters in the world.

After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had lost in the municipal elections three of the most important cities of his country, he refused to accept such loss in the capital. Thus, he repeated the elections to lose for the second time. This time, he acknowledged his loss and has not fraud the elections. He puts thousands of his opponents and journalists in jail, but he refuses to rig the elections or cheat. This could have happened in order to save his dignity before the world with all his repressive practices against his opponents. This could have happened with many people defending their rights to vote.

Egypt in the last five years embraced the African continent after the lifting of the freeze on its membership in the African Union. This year it became the President of the Union and gave great concern to the African countries. Egypt received the African youth in Aswan Upper Egypt and launched an intuitive to treat 1 million Africans, which is an international version of the Presidential initiative to treat 100 million Egyptians. Then Egypt embraced the first African anti-corruption forum in Sharm El-Sheikh (AACF) aiming to establish a shared knowledge base between different regions of the continent on the risks of corruption and its severe negative effect on development. Yet, there was nothing said about those with corrupted conscious who refused to call a school after the name of a Coptic martyr called Abanoub, which is the third case in few months.

How painful it is to write about the martyrs at the time we supposed to rejoice. It is so sad to see innocent young people die for no good reason even though they died for their homelands. They were supposed to celebrate the feast and may have visited the graves according to the Egyptian customs to remember the dear ones who died, but they may have never expected to join them on that day! The recent terrorist attack in Sinai brought new brave soldiers into the grave whose families knew they are serving the country and willing to sacrifice their souls for it.

As the Egyptian universities are trying to improve the quality of education, the Dutch Leiden classification listed 5 Egyptian universities out of 963 international universities. According to the report, the top five Egyptian universities have a distinguished publication during the period 2014-2017, in the top 10% of the international journals. Of the 963 universities, Cairo University ranked 341 worldwide, after publishing 194 papers, Ain Shams University ranked 582 in the world after publishing 105 papers, And the University of Mansoura ranked 681 globally, after publishing 97 research, The University of Alexandria ranked seventh in the world after publishing 91 papers. Zagazig University ranked 8th in the world after publishing 72 papers.

Marwa is a member of Robotic team, consisting of 25 students at the Faculty of Engineering, and shared a success story to design of a submarine, which carries the waste and tracks gas and oil pipelines using remote control. The submarine is not the only one designed by the team participating, but there is another submarine that they oversaw its making by secondary and primary school students in Alexandria. Marwa said to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that her team is the only Egyptian and Arab team participating in an international competition organized by the US Navy in Tennessee, where the lake in that city have a dam that needs maintenance, and the submarine will participate in the competition to examine the dam. The submarine was invented by the team of faculty of engineering and other students aged 11 and 17 years. Moreover, Robotics have participated in several competitions and made several designs including submarines and mechanical minesweepers and was honored from several organizations. Greetings to Marwa and her colleagues and to those who will support them in producing their invention and travel costs to the United States.