If your daughter or brother just disappeared, you would probably go to the police. But what if the police were the ones who took them? That is the reality for thousands of families in Egypt, where the government is carrying out a brutal crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression. Ha'na el Taweel's daughter Esraa has been held without trial in Egypt for more than three months, and human rights groups say she is just one of thousands political prisoners being locked up for simply protesting or being associated with certain movements.

Here's my four-sentence review of Dr. Tawfik Hamid's new book Inside “Jihad: How Radical Islam Works; Why It Should Terrify Us; How to Defeat It.” Buy this book. Read this book. Refer to this book. Share this book. I've read and reviewed counter-jihad classics by bestselling experts including Robert Spencer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bernard Lewis, Andrew Bostom, Wafa Sultan, Brigitte Gabriel, Mosab Hassan Yousef, and Phyllis Chesler. I think highly of each. This is how good Inside Jihad is. If someone said to me, "I want to read just one book about jihad." I'd give that reader Dr. Hamid's book.

A helicopter view of our society would certainly show that Egyptians are apparently strongly attached to their religions. Hundreds of visible mosques and churches, many of them built over 1,000 years ago, have earned Cairo the name of ‘the city of a thousand minarets’.

Euromoney is a British company that organizes conferences, provides consultation and publishes financial analyses. It is not an international entity that accredits or discredits, although its reports and conferences may give a negative or positive impression of a certain economy.

It is the beginning of their nightmares. Many Palestinians go to bed every night without knowing if their homes will be bulldozed during the night by the Israeli police. According to Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), house demolitions are one of Israel’s main weapons of occupation of Palestinian land.

A popular campaign in Egypt has been launched advocating the disbanding of religiously oriented parties. The campaign started generating support and has already gathered 4,000 signatures.

I thought there were monopolies among steel or cement producers, but I never thought there was a monopoly in the movie business. This must be an Egyptian innovation. The last thing I expected was for the Culture Minister to turn a blind eye to the corruption that has been prevailing for years, the seeds of which were planted perhaps in good faith by former Minister Farouk Hosny. The story began when Hosny issued a decision allowing movie theaters to have only 10 copies of foreign films, which they would take from the Chamber of the Film Industry.

I thought there were monopolies among steel or cement producers, but I never thought there was a monopoly in the movie business. This must be an Egyptian innovation.

Understandably, the sit-in by junior policemen in Sharqiya made the headlines this week, just as last week’s news led with the demonstration against the new civil service law by Finance Ministry employees.

Understandably, the sit-in by junior policemen in Sharqiya made the headlines this week, just as last week’s news led with the demonstration against the new civil service law by Finance Ministry employees.

English archaeologist Nicholas Reeves has said that the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, wife of King Akhenaten, could be inside the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Who is responsible for the horrifying confrontations at Rabaa El-Adawiya square two years ago? Was it possible to avoid this clash or was it inevitable?

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock, said Sigmund Freud, describing the moment when humanity turned from barbarism into civilization.

The blindfolded Lady Justice is the symbol of equality before the law. So how come, Mr. Interior Minister, Mortada Mansour and Mostafa Bakry paid you a visit to mediate the release of Tawfiq Okasha for health reasons, although there is a sentence issued against him in favor of his ex-wife? Would anyone other than Okasha have had this privilege?

Although the world witnessed two shifts in the international order after World War I and II, it is clear that for years a gradual but key shift has changed the foundations of the old order.

The new Civil Service Law No. 18/2015 - which last week sparked the largest public demonstrations in a long time - is in theory a step toward reforming the state bureaucracy and ending an unsustainable situation in which the number of state employees keeps rising, along with the share of public salaries in the state budget, while public services and utilities keep deteriorating together with civil servants’ working conditions.

The completion of the Suez Canal project and the great celebration of it has raised the morale of the people because it was a national project that was done accurately, efficiently and in time.

Dr. Abdel Aaty made us doubtfully believe that his marvelous device, which is far better than any device Edison had invented, can cure Hepatitis C and AIDS.

During a fiery speech in March to rally members of the US Congress against nuclear talks with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose to remind Congress members of the record of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Jawad Zarif.

The Arab Spring, in the last four years or so, forced a few Arab dictators prematurely from their jobs, where they have had a heck of a time handling their imposed retirements. In a democratic world, leaders usually get a job review after a few years then once they leave office they have to explore their options and develop different skills.

Some believe that there are secrets of the ancient Egyptians still undiscovered, such as the mummification that only their priests knew how to do, the Great Pyramid of King Cheops that even Egyptologists did not know how was built, and the Sphinx, under which many believed people from Atlantis, who helped build the pyramids, kept boxes full of secrets about the ancient Egyptian civilization.