Following her recent visit to Israel, Dr. Elham Manea, a Yemeni-Egyptian writer, human rights activist and women's rights activist who resides in Switzerland, began publishing a series of articles titled "If We Are Not The Emissaries of Peace, Who Will Be?" In the series, posted ...
Introduction
In recent years Egypt has been experiencing a severe economic crisis. This crisis came to a head in 2016, prompting the government to accept an IMF reform plan which involved eliminating subsidies and raising the cost of goods and services.[1] As part of the refo...
Liberal Yemeni-Egyptian writer Dr. Elham Manea, who resides in Switzerland where she lectures on political science at the University of Zurich and is a member of Switzerland's Federal Commission for Women's Affairs, wrote an article published July 27, 2018 on the liberal Arab web...
During his visit to the U.K. this month for the first Emerging Peacemakers Forum, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Sheikh of Egypt's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious institution, met with Queen Elizabeth II as well as with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Windsor Castle, on July ...
Egyptian actress Nadia El Gendy said that social media networks were "a Jewish industry, aimed at destroying countries." She made the assertion during an interview on the Egyptian ON TV channel on July 13.
Nadia El Gendy: "[Social media] has become a great danger."
Intervi...
Dr. Mohamed Hegazy, former Egyptian ambassador to Germany, said that the Rothschild family, along with other powerful Jewish families in the U.S., control financial institutions and exert influence on the media worldwide and in politics. "It was these families that exerted pressu...
Egyptian Islamist lawyer Muntassir Al-Zayyat said that "all the political forces in Egypt – left, pan-Arabs, and Nasserists – applauded Sadat's assassination," and so did the people on the street, whom we saw "handing out candy and chocolate, to celebrate the killing of Sadat." S...
Speaking at a Moroccan Organization for Human Rights conference, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad called for a halt to trying to please the Islamists and said that "whoever wants to embrace the heritage, along with its representatives and theoreticians, and to incorporat...
"Fire kites" and "fire balloons" launched from Gaza into Israel in the past few months have caused multiple fires on a daily basis in the region bordering the Gaza Strip. Since April 2018, hundreds of these kites and balloons, which carry a burning rag or an explosive device, hav...
Nabil Hilmi, former dean of law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, Egypt, said in a recent TV interview: "We all know that it is the Jews who control the money and the media." Hilmi, who was speaking on Egypt's Channel 2 on June 23, further said that: "They also [wanted] a gateway ...
Salah Diab, Egyptian businessman and owner of the Al-Masri Al-Yawm daily, who writes under the pen name "Newton," published an article on January 24, 2018 headlined "The Price of Refusal," about Egypt's rejection of a proposal for a settlement to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
...
Speaking at a conference held by the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad called to stop trying to please the Islamists and said that "whoever wants to embrace the heritage, along with its representatives and theoreticians, and to inco...
Egyptian TV host and former MP Tawfiq Okasha made several antisemitic addresses on his show on Assema TV, stating that the Jews rule the world by taking "the throne of the world economy as well as the throne of the sciences of the world" and controlling the media, according to "a...
Egyptian cleric Sheikh Sharif Abadi said that throughout history, the Muslims never fought peoples, never conquered in order to collect the jizya poll tax, never forced people to convert to Islam, and never perpetrated a racial massacre. According to Sheikh Abadi, the Armenian ma...
Egyptian scholar Dr. Samir Taqi Al-Din said in a recent address that "it is no coincidence that Freud was a Jew, a Zionist, and a Freemason... that Sartre, the father of existentialism, was a Jew too," and that "the people who came up with the materialistic, secular, atheist ideo...
Theodor Herzl was depicted as Satanic in an episode of an Egyptian daily TV series titled "People of Evil," broadcast on Ten TV during the month of Ramadan. In the May 30 episode, devoted to Herzl, TV host Nashaat Eldeehy recounted the myth that the blue lines on the Israeli flag...
In the May 31 episode of the Egyptian daily TV series titled "People of Evil," broadcast on Ten TV during the month of Ramadan, David Ben-Gurion is depicted as a serpent with a Star of David pattern drawn on its body. TV host Nashaat Eldeehy says: "Our show deals with the people ...
The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will commence on June 14. This means that Ramadan – which falls this year between May 17, 2018 and June 14, 2018 – coincides with the period of intensive practice ahead of the games and with pre-tournament friendly matches. Furthermore, the first...
On May 16, 2018, during an "Ask the President" session at Egypt's fifth national youth conference, held in Cairo,[1] Egyptian President Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi replied to questions from citizens that had been sent in in advance. One of the questions concerned Egypt's position vis-à...
Egyptian cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Zoghbi said, in an interview following the assassination in Malaysia of Hamas member Fadi al-Batsch, that the Zionist Jews assassinate "peaceful civilians, who work in fields of applied science," as well as activists, because "they do not want t...
The April 22, 2018 selection of Egyptian soccer star Mohamed Salah, who plays for Liverpool, as recipient of the English Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for 2017-18 caused elation in Egypt. Thousands in his home province celebrated in the streets, a...
In a May 5 interview on Egypt's Channel 2 TV, Egyptian Professor Amr Allam, head of the Department of Hebrew Language at Menoufia University, said that "the Israeli violence or aggressive spirit is embedded in the Jewish genes" and he theorized about the reasons for the "abnormal...
U.S. President Donald Trump's May 8, 2018 announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) and its reinstatement of the harsh sanctions against Iran won broad support from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia officially stated that it welcomed...
Egyptian intellectual and journalist Dr. Khaled Montaser, interviewed by Sky News Arabia on April 20, talked about the "scientific-miraculous" nature of the quran (i'jaz), which he called a "great delusion" - "an anesthetic or a nice sedative for the Arabs and the Muslims." In sc...
During a debate on premarital sex broadcast by the Egyptian Al-Nahar TV on February 5, lawyer Issam 'Agag irritated the other guests and the TV host when he asked: "How can a girl possibly live with a man, or live her life without boundaries in a 'responsible' manner?" When the h...
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said that "the notion of the Caliphate is a commodity, which is shaped and sold by the merchants of illusion," such as Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and Turkish President Erdoğan. "Egypt and all the Arab countries and peopl...
On April 14, 2018, about a week after the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad carried out a chemical attack on the town of Douma near Damascus that killed dozens, the U.S., U.K. and France launched a joint military strike on regime bases and facilities associated with its ...
Egyptian TV host Moataz Matar mocked "puppeteer" Trump, who, he claimed, had received billions of dollars from the Gulf "as payment for the hour-long military demonstration." "Bashar is one of those who benefit the most," said Matar, in an address on the Turkey-based Egyptian Mus...
Following the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, Egyptian TV host Amr Adeeb gave an address in which he said that as Arabs, "we need to take a hard look at ourselves." "We have brought shame upon the world, shame upon humanity, by what we are doing by ourselves and to o...
Following the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, Egyptian TV host Amr Adeeb gave an address in which he said that as Arabs, "we need to take a hard look at ourselves." "We have brought shame upon the world, shame upon humanity, by what we are doing by ourselves and to o...
Egyptian TV host Sayyed Ali criticized U.S. President Trump's condemnation of Bashar Al-Assad following the chemical attack in Douma. Calling Trump a "lunatic," an "extortionist," and a "gallant Pasha, who behaves like a bully at a cabaret," and criticizing his use of the term "a...
Egyptian journalist Dr. Hoda Zakariya, a lecturer on political sociology, said that while "there was some persecution of the Jews by Hitler," the scope of the Holocaust is a "well-known historical rumor." Speaking on the Egyptian DMC TV channel on February 7, she complained that ...
Following a debate on the Egyptian Alhadath Alyoum TV channel in which the moderator had kicked one of his guests, an atheist, out of the studio, the channel held a follow-up discussion. TV host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim asked why the Western media was so interested in the atheists an...
TV host Mohamed Al-Ghiety recent moderated a show discussing the pros and cons of a proposal to launch an "Egyptian Facebook," an idea endorsed by Egyptian Communications Minister Yasser ElKady. Muhammad Fadhel 'Ashour of the Nasserist Party opposed the idea of closing down the "...
Following a debate on the Egyptian Alhadath Alyoum TV channel in which the moderator had kicked one of his guests, an atheist, out of the studio, the channel held a follow-up discussion. TV host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim asked why the Western media was so interested in the atheists an...
Egyptian historian Bassam El Shammaa, interviewed by the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, repeated his claims of a post-WWII "counter Holocaust" carried out by Jews against the Germans, in which "60,000 to 80,000 Germans were killed... and 2-3 million Germans were perse...
Following her recent visit to Israel, Dr. Elham Manea, a Yemeni-Egyptian writer, human rights activist and women's rights activist who resides in Switzerland, began publishing a series of articles titled "If We Are Not The Emissaries of Peace, Who Will Be?" In the series, posted ...
Liberal Yemeni-Egyptian writer Dr. Elham Manea, who resides in Switzerland where she lectures on political science at the University of Zurich and is a member of Switzerland's Federal Commission for Women's Affairs, wrote an article published July 27, 2018 on the liberal Arab web...
During his visit to the U.K. this month for the first Emerging Peacemakers Forum, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Sheikh of Egypt's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious institution, met with Queen Elizabeth II as well as with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Windsor Castle, on July ...
Speaking at a Moroccan Organization for Human Rights conference, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad called for a halt to trying to please the Islamists and said that "whoever wants to embrace the heritage, along with its representatives and theoreticians, and to incorporat...
"Fire kites" and "fire balloons" launched from Gaza into Israel in the past few months have caused multiple fires on a daily basis in the region bordering the Gaza Strip. Since April 2018, hundreds of these kites and balloons, which carry a burning rag or an explosive device, hav...
Salah Diab, Egyptian businessman and owner of the Al-Masri Al-Yawm daily, who writes under the pen name "Newton," published an article on January 24, 2018 headlined "The Price of Refusal," about Egypt's rejection of a proposal for a settlement to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
...
The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will commence on June 14. This means that Ramadan – which falls this year between May 17, 2018 and June 14, 2018 – coincides with the period of intensive practice ahead of the games and with pre-tournament friendly matches. Furthermore, the first...
On May 16, 2018, during an "Ask the President" session at Egypt's fifth national youth conference, held in Cairo,[1] Egyptian President Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi replied to questions from citizens that had been sent in in advance. One of the questions concerned Egypt's position vis-à...
The April 22, 2018 selection of Egyptian soccer star Mohamed Salah, who plays for Liverpool, as recipient of the English Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for 2017-18 caused elation in Egypt. Thousands in his home province celebrated in the streets, a...
U.S. President Donald Trump's May 8, 2018 announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) and its reinstatement of the harsh sanctions against Iran won broad support from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia officially stated that it welcomed...
On April 14, 2018, about a week after the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad carried out a chemical attack on the town of Douma near Damascus that killed dozens, the U.S., U.K. and France launched a joint military strike on regime bases and facilities associated with its ...
Following the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, Egyptian TV host Amr Adeeb gave an address in which he said that as Arabs, "we need to take a hard look at ourselves." "We have brought shame upon the world, shame upon humanity, by what we are doing by ourselves and to o...
Following a debate on the Egyptian Alhadath Alyoum TV channel in which the moderator had kicked one of his guests, an atheist, out of the studio, the channel held a follow-up discussion. TV host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim asked why the Western media was so interested in the atheists an...
Egyptian historian Bassam El Shammaa, interviewed by the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, repeated his claims of a post-WWII "counter Holocaust" carried out by Jews against the Germans, in which "60,000 to 80,000 Germans were killed... and 2-3 million Germans were perse...
Against the backdrop of the Egyptian police's and military's recent extensive efforts to eliminate terrorism in the Sinai,[1] Al-Azhar deputy Sheikh 'Abbas Shuman said, in an interview on Egyptian television, that the anti-terror military and police operations were legal and comp...
Mohammad Hashem, an atheist, was invited to the Alhadath Alyoum TV studio to participate in a debate with former Deputy Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mahmoud Ashour. However, his statement that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of God and his attempt to talk about the Big Ba...
Ahead of the Egyptian presidential elections (slated for March 26-28), and in light of the large-scale campaign launched by the Egyptian military against its presence in Egypt and Sinai, the Islamic State (ISIS) has stepped up its calls for attacks and its threats against the gov...
Speaking on the Egyptian Alhadath Alyoum TV channel on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, TV host Aahmad Suleimn called the Holocaust "the greatest lie in history" and "that nonsense story invented by the Jews" for extortion purposes. He further said that Britai...
On December 11, 2017, the Egyptian government daily Al-Yawm Al-Sabi' published an article by Hashem Al-Fakharani titled "From the '[Arab] Spring Plots' to 'the Buying of the White House' – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Are Realizing Their Goals after 100 Years ..." In this ...
In his November 19, 2017 column in the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, political researcher 'Amr 'Abd Al-Sami' wrote that Egypt should establish military bases outside its borders, in the Horn of Africa, as many other countries have done. This move, he said, was necessary in ...
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said recently that the Palestinians who carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics attack on Israeli athletes were terrorists. "When people storm the Olympic games and the Olympic village, and kidnap athletes – even if they are Israelis – t...
In a December 21, 2017 article in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, Dr. Gamal 'Abd Al-Gawwad, a researcher at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and a lecturer in Political Science at Cairo University, advised Palestinians to forego the armed resistance again...
Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman and the owner of the daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm, who goes by the pen name Newton, published a series of four articles in which he expressed his longing for a visionary leadership that would extricate the Arabs from the sorry state in which they hav...
Finding itself in dire straits due to its ongoing crisis with the four countries that are boycotting it – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt – which is taking its toll in numerous ways, Qatar tried to enlist some outside help. Informed by the old anti-Semitic stereotype tha...
Ahead of New Year's and the Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 7, Al-Azhar, the foremost Islamic institution in Egypt and in the Sunni world at large, launched an informational campaign, "Sharing the Homeland," instructing Muslims on the proper attitude towards these holidays ...
In her January 6, 2017 column in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm, Basma Al-Masri wrote that, as evident from the Talmud and Bible, the Zionist ambition is to destroy the Arab peoples and to establish a Jewish state stretching from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq. T...
In response to the announcement of U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,[1] journalist Ashraf Sadeq wrote an article in the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram in which he called upon all terror organizations, including ISIS and the Houthis, w...
Following the December 6, 2017 announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,[1] the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm published an article by senior journalist Muhammad Amin, formerly chairman of the board of the newspaper, in which he ...
U.S. President Donald Trump's December 6, 2017 announcement of U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and of the planned move of the U.S. Embassy there from Tel Aviv, has triggered a range of reactions from Palestinians and across the Arab world, from relatively restr...
In her July 24, 2017 column in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm, journalist Sahar Al-Ga'ara, who often addresses the issue of extremism in Egypt, harshly condemned Egyptian media channels for providing a platform to extremist elements that incite to violence, especially agains...
The official Russian government portal for legal information, Pravo.gov.ru, has announced that Russia and Egypt are about to sign a five-year pact allowing mutual use of territorial airspace and military bases.[1]
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Egyptian President...
The concluding announcement of the November 19, 2017 emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo included the description of Hizbullah as a terror organization and the accusation that it "supports terrorism and terror organizations in Arab countries by means of [p...
The concluding announcement issued by the Arab League foreign ministers following their November 19, 2017 emergency meeting in Cairo declared Hizbullah a terrorist organization and accused it of "supporting terrorism and terrorist organizations in the Arab states by [supplying th...
Following the massive November 24, 2017 attack on the Al-Rawdah mosque in Bir Al-'Abed in Sinai, near El-Arish, in which, according to official Egyptian sources, 309 were killed and 128 were wounded,[1] there was a notable exchange of accusations of responsibility. While the Qata...
Palestinian President Mahmoud 'Abbas recently awarded a medal of honor to Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy, the former chairman of the Egyptian Writers Union and currently an advisor to the union, for his literary contribution to the Palestinian cause. The award ceremony, held at ...
Following Yemeni Houthi forces' November 4, 2017 firing of a ballistic missile at Riyadh, and against the backdrop of regional tensions and the fear of escalation of Saudi-Iranian conflict,[1] 'Abbas Al-Tarabili, historian and former editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Wafd, publishe...
Introduction
In recent years Egypt has been experiencing a severe economic crisis. This crisis came to a head in 2016, prompting the government to accept an IMF reform plan which involved eliminating subsidies and raising the cost of goods and services.[1] As part of the refo...
Introduction
The presidential elections in Egypt, slated for March 26-28, 2018, are expected to result in a second term for President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi.[1] His almost inevitable win is the result of the stagnation in Egypt's political system, which has failed to produce ...
Introduction
In recent months, and especially ahead of Egypt's upcoming presidential elections, set for March 26-28, 2018, the Egyptian media has been experiencing upheavals and pressures that have caused it to significantly decrease its criticism of President 'Abd Al-Fattah A...
Introduction
In advance of Egypt's presidential elections, set for late March 2018, the Egyptian regime has been acting to thwart the candidacies of Egyptian public figures. This comes against the backdrop of its repression of opposition elements and its obstruction of regist...
Introduction
Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for March 26-28, 2018. Only two months ahead of the elections, incumbent President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi announced that he would seek a second term in office. He made the announcement at a January 19, 2018 conference ...
Introduction
The December 21, 2017 introduction, in the U.S. House of Representatives, of a bill calling on the government of Egypt to enact reforms ensuring that Egypt's Coptic Christians have "the same rights and opportunities as all other Egyptian citizens" and that it "end...
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Introduction
In recent weeks, the ongoing struggle between the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda for leadership of the gl...
Several weeks after the signing of the October 12, 2017 reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the euphoria that had initially been felt on the Palestinian street, and even more so in political circles, seems to be waning, and there are increasing doubts as to the poss...
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On November 24, 2017, armed terrorists attacked the mosque in the village of Al-Rawdah, near Bir Al-'Abed in northern Sinai, ...
The issue of discrimination against Egypt's Coptic Christian minority has resurfaced recently in the Egyptian media. The renewed debate follows claims that the security forces, submitting to pressure by Islamist elements, are depriving Copts of their freedom of worship by repeate...
In the recent weeks, there have been clear signs of further rapprochement between Egypt and the Syrian regime, headed by Bashar Al-Assad, although Egyptian officials repeatedly stress that Egypt is not taking sides in the Syrian crisis. Since Egyptian President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-...
Introduction
The attacks carried out in the name of Islam by terror organizations such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda, both in Arab countries and worldwide, have prompted recurring discussion about whether and how the school curricula in the Arab world have contribu...
Introduction
Egypt's Al-Azhar University, the most important institute of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, and its head, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayeb, are currently facing a political and media attack led by the institute of the Egyptian presidency, headed by President 'Abd Al-Fat...
Introduction
Recently, there have been significant developments in the conflict/rivalry between, on the one hand, Saudi Arabia and the Sunni axis that it established, and on the other hand Iran and the resistance axis. These developments concern not only the forces in the reg...
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For the first report in this series on ISIS in Sinai, see ISIS In Sinai And Its Relations With The Local Population...
The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
The military activity of the Islamic State's "Sinai Province" has attracted much global attention. In its war against the...
Introduction
Following Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency, the issue of designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization resurfaced. During and after his presidential campaign, Trump's Middle East advisor Walid Phares repeatedly stated that the new ...
Introduction
In recent weeks, there has been an escalation of ISIS attacks against Coptic residents of northern Sinai, which included the murders of at least seven Copts.[1] These attacks were preceded by an ISIS video on February 19, 2017, that included threats of attacks on ...
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In the last few days, dozens of Coptic Christian families fled El Arish in north Sinai amid an ongoing campaign...
Introduction
Egypt's population is currently some 91 million, and its growth rate over the past two decades, which stands at 48% (2.4% per year), is among the world's highest.[1] This issue has been troubling Egyptian government officials for decades, and in 1975 they es...
Introduction
This past week, Egypt-Syria relations warmed further, as evidenced by Egyptian President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi's public statements in support of the Syrian army's war against the "terrorists," and by several articles in the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram expr...
Introduction
In recent years, Egypt has been suffering a severe economic crisis, [1] expressed by a sharp drop of the Egyptian pound against the dollar, rising prices, a shortage of staple foods such as rice, sugar and baby food, and profiteering in these commodities.[2] ...
Introduction
In the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election, it appears that the Egyptian regime under President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi prefers Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton as the next president of the U.S. After Al-Sisi met with both presidential candidates in Sep...
Introduction
In recent weeks there has been severe tension between Egypt and Saudi Arabia due to disagreements on the Syrian crisis. These disagreements, which are long-standing, recently deepened and became public, especially after on October 8, 2016, Egypt voted at the UN Se...
Introduction
In recent months, tensions have been rising between Copts and Muslims in Egypt. Recurring violent incidents between Muslims and Copts in the rural areas of Upper Egypt in the Minya and Bani Suef Governorates[1] have led to increased protests by the Coptic Church,...
Introduction
In recent weeks there were numerous reports in the Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian media about an Arab initiative for promoting the Palestinian cause, which includes efforts to achieve internal reconciliation in Fatah between Palestinian President Mahmoud 'Ab...
Introduction
The Egyptian media has recently leveled harsh criticism at Britain and its media for their attitude towards the current Egyptian regime. It claimed that Britain's officials and media have been attacking the Al-Sisi regime, while showing sympathy and extending a pl...
Introduction
Three years after the deposing of Muhammad Mursi and the rise to power of Egyptian President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, it seems that the latter is gradually losing the sweeping popular support he enjoyed in the early days of his presidency. Al-Sisi is facing many d...
Introduction
Egypt's Ministry of Religious Endowments,
which is headed by Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, recently called for uniform Friday
sermons in ministry-funded mosques across the country, and to require preachers
to deliver a sermon provided to them by the ministry. Minister Goma...
Introduction
The 2000s witnessed the escalation
of Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in the Middle East, with virulent rhetoric fomenting
on both sides of the sectarian divide. The anti-Shi'ite campaign has clearly
been the more pervasive and acrimonious. The first decade of the 21st centu...
Introduction
Since
the ouster of Muhammad Mursi in July 2013, Saudi-Egyptian relations have been
close and marked by common interests. Saudi Arabia backed the Egyptian
military's ousting of Mursi and supported its claim that the ouster expressed
the will of the people, in the fa...
This report, offered as a complimentary sample from MEMRI's
Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM), reviews the activity of the Islamic State's (ISIS)
Sinai Province. It discusses the importance of Sinai to ISIS; the increase in terror
activity in the peninsula since t...
Introduction
In contrast to Jordan and the Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar), which are taking an active part in the international coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) and in the coalition's airstrikes against this organization in Syria, Egypt has s...
Until recently, the Egyptian media was on the warpath against Hamas, as expressed by its depiction of the movement as a terror organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that harms Palestinian interests and also harms Egypt and its security and economic interests.[1...
Introduction
The position of the Egyptian regime and its supporters regarding the current fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is characterized by the internal conflict between their hostility towards Hamas and their desire to express solidarity with the Palestinians.
...
Introduction On March 24, 2014, the Egyptian criminal court at Minya, headed by Judge Sa'id Youssef Sabri,[1] handed down a mass death sentence for 529 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members charged with attacking a police station and killing an officer in the Minya district.[2] The cr...
Egyptian actress Nadia El Gendy said that social media networks were "a Jewish industry, aimed at destroying countries." She made the assertion during an interview on the Egyptian ON TV channel on July 13.
Nadia El Gendy: "[Social media] has become a great danger."
Intervi...
Dr. Mohamed Hegazy, former Egyptian ambassador to Germany, said that the Rothschild family, along with other powerful Jewish families in the U.S., control financial institutions and exert influence on the media worldwide and in politics. "It was these families that exerted pressu...
Egyptian Islamist lawyer Muntassir Al-Zayyat said that "all the political forces in Egypt – left, pan-Arabs, and Nasserists – applauded Sadat's assassination," and so did the people on the street, whom we saw "handing out candy and chocolate, to celebrate the killing of Sadat." S...
Nabil Hilmi, former dean of law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, Egypt, said in a recent TV interview: "We all know that it is the Jews who control the money and the media." Hilmi, who was speaking on Egypt's Channel 2 on June 23, further said that: "They also [wanted] a gateway ...
Speaking at a conference held by the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad called to stop trying to please the Islamists and said that "whoever wants to embrace the heritage, along with its representatives and theoreticians, and to inco...
Egyptian TV host and former MP Tawfiq Okasha made several antisemitic addresses on his show on Assema TV, stating that the Jews rule the world by taking "the throne of the world economy as well as the throne of the sciences of the world" and controlling the media, according to "a...
Egyptian cleric Sheikh Sharif Abadi said that throughout history, the Muslims never fought peoples, never conquered in order to collect the jizya poll tax, never forced people to convert to Islam, and never perpetrated a racial massacre. According to Sheikh Abadi, the Armenian ma...
Egyptian scholar Dr. Samir Taqi Al-Din said in a recent address that "it is no coincidence that Freud was a Jew, a Zionist, and a Freemason... that Sartre, the father of existentialism, was a Jew too," and that "the people who came up with the materialistic, secular, atheist ideo...
Theodor Herzl was depicted as Satanic in an episode of an Egyptian daily TV series titled "People of Evil," broadcast on Ten TV during the month of Ramadan. In the May 30 episode, devoted to Herzl, TV host Nashaat Eldeehy recounted the myth that the blue lines on the Israeli flag...
In the May 31 episode of the Egyptian daily TV series titled "People of Evil," broadcast on Ten TV during the month of Ramadan, David Ben-Gurion is depicted as a serpent with a Star of David pattern drawn on its body. TV host Nashaat Eldeehy says: "Our show deals with the people ...
Egyptian cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Zoghbi said, in an interview following the assassination in Malaysia of Hamas member Fadi al-Batsch, that the Zionist Jews assassinate "peaceful civilians, who work in fields of applied science," as well as activists, because "they do not want t...
In a May 5 interview on Egypt's Channel 2 TV, Egyptian Professor Amr Allam, head of the Department of Hebrew Language at Menoufia University, said that "the Israeli violence or aggressive spirit is embedded in the Jewish genes" and he theorized about the reasons for the "abnormal...
Egyptian intellectual and journalist Dr. Khaled Montaser, interviewed by Sky News Arabia on April 20, talked about the "scientific-miraculous" nature of the quran (i'jaz), which he called a "great delusion" - "an anesthetic or a nice sedative for the Arabs and the Muslims." In sc...
During a debate on premarital sex broadcast by the Egyptian Al-Nahar TV on February 5, lawyer Issam 'Agag irritated the other guests and the TV host when he asked: "How can a girl possibly live with a man, or live her life without boundaries in a 'responsible' manner?" When the h...
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said that "the notion of the Caliphate is a commodity, which is shaped and sold by the merchants of illusion," such as Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and Turkish President Erdoğan. "Egypt and all the Arab countries and peopl...
Egyptian TV host Moataz Matar mocked "puppeteer" Trump, who, he claimed, had received billions of dollars from the Gulf "as payment for the hour-long military demonstration." "Bashar is one of those who benefit the most," said Matar, in an address on the Turkey-based Egyptian Mus...
Following the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, Egyptian TV host Amr Adeeb gave an address in which he said that as Arabs, "we need to take a hard look at ourselves." "We have brought shame upon the world, shame upon humanity, by what we are doing by ourselves and to o...
Egyptian TV host Sayyed Ali criticized U.S. President Trump's condemnation of Bashar Al-Assad following the chemical attack in Douma. Calling Trump a "lunatic," an "extortionist," and a "gallant Pasha, who behaves like a bully at a cabaret," and criticizing his use of the term "a...
Egyptian journalist Dr. Hoda Zakariya, a lecturer on political sociology, said that while "there was some persecution of the Jews by Hitler," the scope of the Holocaust is a "well-known historical rumor." Speaking on the Egyptian DMC TV channel on February 7, she complained that ...
TV host Mohamed Al-Ghiety recent moderated a show discussing the pros and cons of a proposal to launch an "Egyptian Facebook," an idea endorsed by Egyptian Communications Minister Yasser ElKady. Muhammad Fadhel 'Ashour of the Nasserist Party opposed the idea of closing down the "...
Following a debate on the Egyptian Alhadath Alyoum TV channel in which the moderator had kicked one of his guests, an atheist, out of the studio, the channel held a follow-up discussion. TV host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim asked why the Western media was so interested in the atheists an...
Egyptian historian Bassam El Shammaa, interviewed by the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, repeated his claims of a post-WWII "counter Holocaust" carried out by Jews against the Germans, in which "60,000 to 80,000 Germans were killed... and 2-3 million Germans were perse...
In a Friday sermon delivered in El Bagour, Egypt, Dr. Abu Bakr Al-Qadi called to wage Jihad against the infidels in their own lands. Stressing that he was not talking only about defensive Jihad, he said: "I am talking about seeking out the infidels on their own turf," and, if the...
Mohammad Hashem, an atheist, was invited to the Alhadath Alyoum TV studio to participate in a debate with former Deputy Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mahmoud Ashour. However, his statement that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of God and his attempt to talk about the Big Ba...
Egyptian Professor of Israeli Studies Abd Al-Razzaq Suleiman said that Israeli and American research centers were targeting the Egyptians, and that “all the negative practices,” such as atheism, drugs, and single motherhood were premeditated. He said that in a study emerging from...
Former Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, founder of the Strong Egypt Party, called to cancel his country's upcoming presidential elections, charging that anybody who donates money to opposition parties is detained on charges of terrorism or money launderi...
President of Cairo University Mohamed Al-Khosht called for a "completely new religious discourse," saying that "reformed discourse" was not enough and calling the notion of reform in Islamic thought "like renovating an old and crumbling building." All the attempts at reform, from...
On February 16, Egyptian-born Imam Ahmed Shehata delivered a Friday sermon at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, in which he criticized the Arab community in the U.S. for racism toward the Muslim African-American community. "If not for them, America wou...
Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb in a recent TV interview said that "a most devious and malicious plot was hatched to plunge this dagger [i.e., Israel] into the body of the Arab world." Sheikh Al-Tayeb said that we have recently "had to swallow a dose of poison" manifest in Arab...
Speaking at the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Ohio, Egyptian-American imam Islam Hassan defended the Prophet Muhammad's marriage to 'Aisha, mentioning various Christian personalities, from St. Augustine to the kings of England, who, he claimed, had taken child brides, and saying t...
In a TV interview, Kuwaiti singer Shams Bandar said that she supported sex education in the Arab world and that she had gay friends, criticizing those who convey one message to the cameras and another behind closed doors. Lying, she said, "is characteristic of the Arab peoples" b...
In a Friday sermon delivered in Columbia, South Carolina, Egyptian-American cleric Muhammad Syed Adly warned his congregation against sending their children to non-Muslim schools. Imam Adly said that gay or lesbian teachers might pass it on to their students. "The behavior, the w...
Egyptian author Sayyid Al-Qemany criticized the Egyptian regime's calls for reform in the religious discourse, saying that they were directed abroad and were not intended for internal consumption. Religion "still constitutes the main source for the thinking of the regular citizen...
Egyptian TV Host Gaber Al-Karmoty marked the occasion of the downing of the Israeli fighter jet by the Syrian army by bringing a box of chocolates to the TV studio. "Israel was, remains, and forever will be the No. 1 enemy of Egypt and the Arab world," he decl...
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said recently that the Palestinians who carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics attack on Israeli athletes were terrorists. "When people storm the Olympic games and the Olympic village, and kidnap athletes – even if they are Israelis – t...
During a TV debate on normalization of ties between Egypt and Israel, Egyptian MP Nashwa Al-Dib said "our schoolbooks should go back to referring to it as the 'Zionist entity'... in order to teach our children that this entity is a plunderer of the land, the honor, the holy place...
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