With the 1st ever Egyptian Youth Conference I’ll stop counting the Egyptian Traditions cause when I started I had in mind 3-5 points I wanted to discuss under that title but as I go and dig up more and more traditions come to my mind and as I do not intend to keep counting in ROMAN NUMBERS (I..V..X) I decided to stop this count up but will keep going as I can! Today’s tradition is about my lost youth learning and getting educated just because when my parents had my age they had no Radios or TVs to help them learn, they had to go SCHOOLS! We all know Education system in Egypt is in a very BAD SHAPE however we could see youth in that 1st conference that took place in Sharm el Shekh 3 days ago very sophisticated obviously sophistication does not mean manners; generation 4 mobiles, Facebook and Internet help new generations to understand facts but do not teach manners on the contrary they might contribute in spoiling the little manners your parents could teach you, and those little manners they could teach you was not because they lack manners but because they did lack time to provide you in those difficult times when each and every commodity price climbs sky hi but they still can buy for you a Samsung or I phone pay for your private school lessons that will end up with you sheeting to pass your exams!

It seems the crisis between Egypt and Suadi Arabia will not end soon especially after the last statement from the saudi diplomate who made fun of Sisi when he was talking about his freidge. This was not the first crisis to happen between Egypt and Saudi arabia Lately. In the same month another crisis happened when Egypt vote with the russian resolution which made Saudi Arabia angry becuase of that. The main problem of Saudi Arabia that they want Egypt to follow them as subordinate, however, Egypt will never be subordinate to Saudi Arabia but they are insiisting to deal with Egypt in that way.

After Egypt’s government announced to offer investors and small farmer around 500,000 feddans, as part of the country’s mega project to reclaim one million and half feddans, the Minister of agriculture is currently taking serious steps to cultivate 100 thousand acres of greenhouses in north Sinai. Another positive thing is that the Arab Organization for Industrialization is making the greenhouses through cooperation with the Netherlands and Spain in this field. This project will exploit arable land using modern systems to consume small amounts of water.

Sherif Ismael, Egypt’s Prime Minister, showed in his interview with TV presenter Lamis Hadidi, that he is a dreamer that flees the sad reality to the happy dreams. I know that president al-Sisi said we are taking steps towards the removal of subsidies gradually over five years. Two years ago, we were thinking that the government meant that support to be raised is the energy and food subsidies, but we didn’t expect to raise support for the Egyptian pound and let it fails like that. The traders whom you accused of being conspirators. However, you accept the new prices of Egyptian pound. Moreover, you admit that the increasing prices will increase more and more after the removal of subsidies of fuel.

When will we stop lying to ourselves? It’s known that Ahmed Shafiq has not lost the presidential elections. He was to be announced winner and the Muslim Brotherhood was about hold demonstrations against such announcement. Many reports said that the terrorist group planned to spread chaos in Egypt and kill many innocent people. Hamas has killed many Egyptians, attacked our police stations and our soldiers in Sinai. We know this but don’t talk about it because of the painful truth. The SCAF put pressure on the Supreme Committee for Elections to declare Mohamed Morsy winner of the presidential elections.

We have waves of bad news and rumors about Egyptian crises like the dispute between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, claiming a lack of food, and hard currency…etc. Yet, there was something in common, which is lack of belonging and awareness, and the increase of different kinds of illiteracy like religious, political and intellectual illiteracy. Many people are calling to care only for the current benefits and forget about the future. They are thinking individually and don’t care about the Egyptian people and their future. For many years, the Egyptians have been embracing useless ideas that are completely useless. Media has also participated in such chaos by spreading false information. Yet, the president decided to change that and fix the situation by real solutions instead of the pain killer policy that was followed for long time. Such bold decision annoyed the enemies of Egypt including the United States of America and its agents. Thus, they did their best to cause disagreement between the biggest two powers in the Middle East, I mean Egypt and the Saudi Arabia.

An other old old tradition of newly graduated youth looking for a job in far far away countries, Why? Cause the pay check month end equals more than 10 times they salary they would get in a similar job in Egypt! However the vital question here is “Is the cost of living in those countries as low as in Egyptd?” Well in fact few years back in France I would get a cup of tea or coffee for almost 5 euros price should have gone up by now but I have no idea how much however the cup of tea or coffee would come with some pastry donuts or sweets this was included in the price but you do not have to eat them because you initially go to the coffee shop for a cup of coffee (or tea) I personally can not start my day before having at least a cup of tea! As a matter of fact today while I’m writing this I had so far 4 cups of tea! It’s still mid day and defiantly before day end I’ll have more tea and coffee as I love coffee as well but have no patience to make it! Egyptian coffee is not made of some boiling water and and Nescafe neither in a boiler called coffee maker with some grains of coffee to make American coffee or put grains of coffee in a separate compartment and let steam of water pass through them and be condensed to make the French coffee; No Egyptian coffee needs patience and hi tech management cold water mixed with the proper amount of sugar -just 1 spoon coffee and 1 spoon sugar for regular coffee or 1.5 sugar for sweet coffee or 2++ spoon of coffee for sweet sweet coffee- and let the mixture boil in low low fire and cook the grains of coffee but carefully remove it from fire seconds before boiling so we preserve the top of the coffee called FACE - wesh in Arabic-!

Recently, youth leaders and ambassadors in Egypt had the pleasure of meeting with Sisi for a conference in Sharm El Sheikh. Topics of discussion included imprisoned youth under the Sisi administration, poverty and the looming threat of yet another revolution that seems closer than comfortable. Social media has been exploding with the idea of another revolution soon to materialize. My questions is, was this conference an attempt for Sisi to try to salvage the image he has with the youth? Does he actually care about the concerns that were brought up during the conference? Furthermore, with this so-called mass protest less than two weeks away, was this just a monumental waste of time since the protests are still going to happen anyways, with the leaders all being the youth of Egypt?

As the economic situation in Egypt is getting really bad and among the increasing prices and unemployment, Egypt’s government announced to offer investors and small farmer around 500,000 feddans, as part of the country’s mega project to reclaim one million and half feddans. This project that should increase the Egyptian agriculture land by 20% may be able to solve many problems in Egypt like the unemployment and traffic by moving millions of people away from the main cities, and most importantly will provide food for the Egyptians as alternative for importing.

I'm writing this message to the great hero who saved Egypt from the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world, and maintained the identity of Egypt, and saved Egypt from the fate of Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq. This leader has apparently changed the history of Egypt and the world. I realize the great challenges and pressures facing the president from inside and outside Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood, the terrorist group and its allies from the Salafists and all terrorist groups, are working to make you fail. They provoke crises that affect your popularity and receive support from greedy merchants and failing bribed supervisory bodies.

The Salafi preacher Sheikh Mohamed Hassan mourned the Egyptian soldiers who martyred in Sinai assuring that blood of Muslims is Haram! He resorted to the Prophetic tradition that assures that blood, property and household of Muslims are haram. He prayed to God to accept the souls of our soldiers as martyrs and console their families and protect Egypt from evil. I ask Sheikh Hassan who always incite discrimination: is only the blood of the Muslims haram, and that of the Christians is ok to be shed! Come on! It’s clear that nobody can differentiate between the bloods that are shed on the ground. You can’t tell whether it belongs to a Muslim or Christian soldier! This blood belongs to the homeland that we are willing to sacrifice our souls to protect it.

A hungry revolution won’t happen in our blessed Egypt though many people are planning to in November 11, 2016; however, they will fail indeed. Egyptian people are united with its police and army against those trying to divide and destroy Egypt. Let those traitors and corrupted people regret when their schemes fail. Enemies of Egypt inside and outside are predicting it will suffer soon from a revolution of the hungry, which I believe is but a part of a scheme to divide the religion and destroy Egypt. Love and unity of the Egyptian people is a great barrier before such evil scheme. In fact, God has granted the Egyptian people such unity of the people, the police and army. Such campaign is unfortunately supported by Egyptian media and activists on social media.

Back to the Egyptian Traditions that I missed so much bu how could I write the article without a Laptop or a Computer? Moreover; how would I send it without Internet? Any way this brief forced vacation was an opportunity to renew my views and hear other opinions one of them was an old old Egyptian Tradition that any problem Egypt faces is the Israeli-American plot! I fed up with this excuse that I always heard rather than solving that problem!

Egypt was knwon long time that it is one of the most countries produce sugar, however, the shortge in sugar supply lately shows the turndown happened in this industry. The main peoblem in this crisis from my view is that the government failed to even talk about this problem and explain the causes and the options to solve it.

Cairo University, one of Egypt’s top universities, finally realized that developing education should be reflected on developing minds, and that resisting retardation comes with resisting discrimination. This was revealed with a decision by Cairo University’s President Gaber Nassar to abolish religious identity from all official paper work. In fact, the Egyptian constitution has been talking for long time about freedom of religion and equality among citizens, but has always supported discrimination among citizens based on religion with the ‘religious identity’ field from Egyptian national identity cards.

The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won Nobel Prize for his role to end five decades of war in his country. Santos was awarded the prize "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end" He was able to hold a peace treaty that may lead to unite Colombia once again. He decided to follow his humanity rather than his previous thoughts. Santos is trying to convince his people and even his opponents, including the previous Colombian president to accept the peace treaty that should bless Colombia with a long period of peace.

The economic situation in Egypt is leading to deteriorating living conditions of the citizens The failure of the government is bringing a revolution of hunger even closer. The Egyptian citizens are suffering on daily basis from increasing prices, bad and expensive education, and health problems. The situation is far from stability and the future is dark. It looks like there is an intention to make the citizens suffer forever.

Official page of the spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church mentioned nothing about the martyrs of Maspero at the fifth anniversary of their martyrdom. Moreover, Pope Tawadros has not mentioned them in his weekly sermon.

Every time the media announce that President Sisi will go to visit a certain place, I see all cleaning starting to be the best place in the world at that time. Having said that, without these visits none of these villages will improve or have the minimum service that any village should have, furthermore, we will see garbage everywhere and careless everywhere as long as there is no announcement that Mr. President will visit that place soon.

Several articles on the internet claim that Israel has won the war of October 1973, but the truth is that Israel had much more losses in the war that it can’t be called a victorious after all. One of the articles that claims Israel has won said that the use of intelligence massively benefited the Israelis, and that the Arab nations did not fight as one unit as their command structure was not unified and each fighting unit (in the Sinai and the Golan Heights) acted as individual units. It added that with up to nine different nationalities involved on the Arab side, mere co-ordination would have been extremely difficult. It also claims that the Israelis had to work to one simple equation: if they lost, the state of Israel would cease to exist. Therefore, for Israel it was a fight to the finish – literally “death or glory”

As the president of the Commission on Human Rights in the Egyptian Parliament, I was aiming to apply human rights standards of the real sense. I had many clashes with the government that led me to resign of such presidency. I hope that such situation will change, and there will be real intentions to apply human rights in Egypt. Yet, I advise the next president of the commission on Human Rights in the Egyptian Parliament not to be fooled by slogans that the state insists on applying human rights as acknowledging a problem first is mandatory to solve it.