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A Palestinian boy waits for his family to receive food from a United Nations food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014. (AFP Photo/ Said Khatib)

Opinion: What Happens When the Fighting Stops?

by Bakir Oweida | Aug 1, 2014 | Opinion

As mourners comfort each other over the passing of their loved ones, they often wish that the loss will be “the last of sad times.” But they are not aware that, in doing this, they unintentionally overlook the fact that sadness at the calamity of death only ends when...

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SARAH BENHAIDA A picture taken on May 21, 2014 shows an Egyptian man sitting next to graffiti of Egypt’s ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. European tourists no longer jostle on the hotel dance floors and many sunbeds […]

Opinion: How will Sisi’s Egypt deal with Libya and Gaza?

by Bakir Oweida | May 23, 2014 | Opinion

Barring a surprise, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will be elected as Egypt’s next president. It is clear to everyone that domestic challenges, in particular security and economic challenges, will be the top priority for Egypt’s next president. If that president is Sisi, he...

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A Palestinian cleans a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip, 19 February 2013 after Egyptian authorities pumped wastewater into the tunnels running under the border in a campaign to stop smuggling into the Gaza Strip. Source: EPA

Opinion: Tunnels and Hostages

by Ali Ibrahim | May 21, 2013 | Opinion

Although the situation of the Egyptian conscripts abducted in Sinai might be solved in the next few hours or days in one way or another, we must think about the larger issue that caused the security crisis that has been escalating over the past few years in the...