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Mohamed Hassanein Heikal joking with friends in 2015 at his home in Cairo, days before his 92nd birthday. Credit Ahmed Abd El-Latif/Associated Press

Heikal, the Journalist and “Propagandist”- Part 1

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 19, 2016 | Opinion

The brilliant late journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal is considered a great chapter in the history of the media and political conflict in Egypt and the region. Heikal was both a witness and a partaker during the reigns of King Farouk of Egypt, President Gamal Abdel...

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Egypt’s deserted pyramids of Giza. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: Goodbye Heikal!

by Yousef Al-Dayni | Aug 27, 2015 | Opinion

I wrote this article after I decided to free myself of the burden of fear that characterized many of the past attempts to criticize Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the man who contributed to the failure of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arab project more than its imaginary...

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US President Barack Obama responds to a question during a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, March 01 2013. Source: EPA/SHAWN THEW

Obama is the Antichrist, Say One in Four Americans

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Apr 7, 2013 | Opinion

There are many people who dislike US President Barack Obama for a whole host of reasons. In their eyes, his failures are nearly innumerable: during his tenure, he has not supported the Syrian revolution, taken a perplexing position towards Bashar Al-Assad’s regime,...