This week brought several surprising events and surprising reactions as well. The government in Egypt decided to raise prices of fuel which increased the already increasing prices in Egyptian markets. At the end of the week, Donald Trump won the elections in the United States of America after he issued negative statements about Muslims and immigration. I thought that the two incidents will bring gloomy faces at work and streets. Yet, I was surprised to find my colleagues still smiling and telling jokes. I think that the Egyptians tend to have such unexpected reactions in such very difficult situations. We may think like: the worst has already happened and we have faced our fears! There is no use losing our smiles as well!

Two friends were walking near the mountains when they saw a black animal from a far. One of them said: Friend, do you see that crow over the mountain? His friend replied: Yes, but it's not a crow but a goat. Couple of minutes later, the animal flew. One said: See, I told you it is a crow. The other replied: it’s a goat even if flew!

Modern methods of education include many concepts like lecture, story, examples, argument, dialogue, representation, educational situations, practical methods and development of critical thinking. However, these modern methods are not very new as Jesus Christ used them hundreds of years ago. In her article entitled “thinking skills and education" Dr. Aida Nassif tells us about the importance of development of thinking of students from the very begging instead of what is called indoctrination education! Development of thinking abilities is a bridge to flee ignorance. Therefore, our students should learn how to develop their thinking abilities in all stages.

The name of Egypt’s former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali exists no more on the lists of Interpol wanted names or travel ban lists. This is clear since he traveled to America America and many other countries like Nigeria and Liberia as an economic adviser. In fact, he offered the Egyptian regime several economic advises, but they were not considered by the government giving the increasing economic crisis in Egypt. It looks like the government only needed him to support Egypt to take the IMF loan, which they need more than his valuable advices. The success of this man and many countries that seek his advises proves that we lost this man when he was removed from the office of minister of finance. Unfortunately, our bad economic situation proves this idea.

After the longest ever Trip over time and time I traveled and as I refuse to let go of my weekly article I must keep it short and to the point! I'm in Manchester in the heart of all atrocities happening in this world! And yes I know with today's Technology each and every word I say or type it is recorded in my file with with MI6 awaiting the right time to eliminate me cause they see in me their enemy number 1! It would not be long before I die like King Farouk in a 100% clean mission, but I had made God my defender the most powerful protector, so no deadly diseases neither violence will hit me... Psalm 91!

In an unprecedented step the Central Bank of Egypt decided to float the Egyptian pound yesterday. This step lead the US Dollar reach about 15 Egyptian pound and more. The question we need to ask after this step Is it the right time to this step? From my simple knowledge, I can say that this decision has pros and cons; however, I need to explain some facts before ending up with conclusion. The first fact we need to know that Egypt imports more than exports. The second fact, Tourism industry suffer from long time and until the present time which is the main source of the foreign currency after the Suez canal. The third fact, the security and instability in Egypt is so high because of the political was between the current regime and Muslims Brotherhood.

I believe that the uncertain positions and statement of Mr. Mohamed Baradie needs a psychoanalyst to analyze his moody personality rather than a politician to judge his statements and actions. The man headed the Atomic Energy Authority, but this doesn’t mean he will be able to be a good politician because of that. His failure to understand the requirements of a politician led him to fail several times including escaping from the vice president office at a very critical moment in Egypt.

The Brazilian aircraft took off heading somewhere, but when it arrived, the pilot couldn’t see the airport. They tried to use the radio to determine where they are, but they failed. They could only think that they are very close to the airport. The fuel was gone and they had to have an emergency landing. They found themselves landing over a river in a forest and barely succeeded to land after they lost many lives on board. Patrols searched for the plan and found them more than 1000 kilometer away. They investigated the reason why the aircraft lost her mind and went astray. Investigations showed that the pilot made great mistake and enter the wrong coordinates and destination according to the old system.

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Sweden. He wanted to make a useful invention for the world. Thus, he invented dynamite to help in mining and construction work. This was a great invention indeed, but was misused in wars and was a tool to kill many people. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms and killing innocent people, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes were like an apology to the whole world for his invention that was misused in wars. His friends said he has always regretted this, especially after he was named by some journalists as “Death Maker”

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.