Since Islam entered Egypt in the seventh century; Egypt never had pure civilian rule. It is known that Amr ibn al-Aas did not come to Egypt preaching Islam, but as an invader hoping to seize its wealth. However, religion has been playing a major role in the Egyptian daily life ever since. We can say that imposing the tribute achieved the goals of the invader at that time. Many Copts decided to convert into Islam to get rid of the jizyah, but the governors decided to make them pay less amount of money in order to keep the taxes. For decades, extremism varied in Egypt according to the personality of the ruler. The family of Muhammad Ali Pasha put efficiency above religion in recruitment which led his government towards a civil state. Copts under the Egyptian kingdom were allowed to take senior positions in the cabinet.

I have written in several articles about the important role of media to influence and shape public opinion. However, Egyptian media is owned by a number of rich capitalists and some agents who receive foreign funds to implement certain agendas. Private televisions use media mercenaries to implement their agendas. Therefore, it became very hard to define TV presenters as many of them pretend to know the truth or claim they feel for the people. Talk show programs appeared in a unique format in Egypt where you can find many TV presenters talking for hours though they have not even studied media in some college. Most of them are merchants, actors and ignorant people. However, they never allow their guests to talk much before they are interrupted.

Being away from Egypt is usually a problem, I can no more follow Egypt news! While in Manchester I had a few choices Greece broadcasting and Cyprus closely related to Egypt do not forget Alexandria was built by Alexander the Great who took down Persian civilization of his time! So both channels will talk of Major events happening in Egypt but that is not enough I get ESC broadcasting or channel 1, and once again that was not enough to keep me updated of Egypt's news!

Lately, the US dollar had declined by 3 Egyptian Pounds, which lead everyone to believe that the government was right when it made the deceison of floating the Egyptian Pound against the US dollar. But we need to ask this question before becoming optimistic or pessimistic: is this decline real? Will this decline continue? And, what does it mean? From my opinion, the decline of the US dollar is not real and it will not last more than 3 to 4 months maximum, and the reason I say this is because nothing has changed in the Egyptian economy to improve the situation of the Egyptian Pound against the US Dollar. Let's take tourism for example. Egypt is still suffering from a lack of toursim and tourists who can bring and spend US dollars. By this way, Egypt can get more dollars than they need, consequentially, the Egyptian Pound will then gain more power to face the US dollar. In conclusion, I want to emphasize that I hope that this decline in the US dollar is real, however, I don't think this is real and I expect that in 3 to 4 months we will be talking again about the soar of the US dollar against the Egyptian pound. If we want the US dollar to have real decline against the Egyptian pound, we need to work hard to get more US Dollar through more exports or decrease our import and be self independent.

If you are among the people seeking positive news in Egypt, you will be glad to hear that US dollar decline against the pound and registered 16 EGP especially as the dollar declined against the pound at unprecedented rates since the flotation on 3 November 2016, to hit EGP 16.00 on Tuesday compared to EGP 19.50 mid-December 2016. Those who stored the dollar are heading to the banks to sell their stock before they lose their profits as economists are advising to not buy dollars in the coming period, because they expect its further decline in the short term.

As we celebrated the valentine’s day we should remember that God is the one who deserves our love. I’m talking here about the holy trinity and all attributes of the loving God for mankind. People usually show their love by working for the beloved. In fact, love is great as it belongs to heaven. It unites people and makes difference. Let’s rejoice in that day and send our best wishes to our relatives and friends even in heaven. Love increases by giving. So, let’s give generously, especially for those who have nobody to care for. Let’s offer our love to the needy, street children and the lowly.

I have spoken previously about poverty in Egypt and how the government deal with it by opulence and call the people to austerity. Today, I talk about how some international organizations see Egypt. World Bank data base indicates that the GDP of the Egyptian stock of hard currency reached $ 33.8 billion in 2015, putting Egypt in the 32 place of GDP. (World Development Indicators database, World Bank, 22 July 2016) This means that Egyptians is located in the medium-high income countries. Yet, the poverty in Egypt is because the rich receive the majority of income and are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.

Every day in the morning we wake up very active and very hopeful. We start our day by taking breakfast, going to our work, chatting with our friends and back to home after long day of being exhausted, trying to relax and eat our supper together before time for sleeping come while watching TV. We are doing that every day, hoping and feeling that the future will be better and we believe that we will live longer to see our dreams coming true in front of our eyes. When we hear about accident here or there or when we know by chance that one we know have died, we try to feel sorry about him and say “God have Mercy on him “, God give patience to the family”, “we will all die”, also we might think little bit about repent and stop doing the bad things we were doing for a while.

Couple of years ago, President al-Sisi promised that Egypt will be a great country once again like it used to be in the past. In a study prepared by PWC, Price Waterhouse Cooper, Egyptian economy is expected to grow to be stronger than Canada in 2050. This will only happen if many reforms are carried out in Egypt to face corruption, and nepotism. These reforms can’t be carried out away from the people who should work harder and change their mind from This study is very similar to Egypt's vision 2030, which is an optimistic Sustainable Development Strategy to develop Egypt by the year 2030 that many people underestimate. All Egyptians are dreaming that Egypt will be one of the greatest nations all over the world. Thus, stop dreaming and start working.

Forced displacement returned to the scene under auspices of officials and MPs who took an oath to respect the Constitution that prohibit forced displacement. Unfortunately, most Egyptian intellectuals ignore that the majority of Christians live in Upper Egypt where 90 percent of the churches need legalization of their status, and that most of them are built on agricultural Land and don’t have even have ownership documents like most of the buildings there. According to the law No. 119 to build churches, most of these churches will not be approved by the Commission appointed by the Parliament. Islamic houses of worship will never suffer the same giving the fact that more than 150 churches in Minya are closed for security reasons which gives the Copts in these villages that they are oppressed by their government.

Like our fathers, we are very attached to our land. People from many countries traveled to trade when the Egyptians preferred to stay and plant their land. I was born in Assiut in Upper Egypt, a city that boasts Pharaonic origins. My family didn’t like traveling and especially immigrations. They almost held my funeral when I decided to immigrate. Over the years, I couldn’t forget about my home land where my heart stayed. The decision to immigrate was not easy at all, but such decision comes with a divine plan in my life.

Nermin Rafik, is the first Egyptian and Arab woman to join the Committee of the International Federation of Wrestling. This came after Egyptian Wrestling Federation nominated an Egyptian woman named Nermin Rafik for membership in the Women's Committee of the International Federation of Wrestling.

As I already said before as time passes and new article is due I start following the news in research of Egypt's news but all I could see a lot of JOY for qualifying to the finals in soccer football that thanks to Abudrika I stop following Soccer and Ahly my all time favorite team! I noticed too lots of comments on escalating prices that never go down, and as well government observations on prices but still no limits to prices rising non stop!

After seven years of being absent from the African cup, the football team could be in the final against all the speculations that claimed that the Egyptian team will be out from the beginning of the championship. In fact, some of these speculations came from experts in football and previous coaches like “Hassan Shehata”, who was saying that Mr. Copper, is not qualified enough to train the Egyptian team, however, this coach reached the final until now.

We have not taken a single step towards developing the performance of state leaders in Egypt, despite our repeated claims to establish a supreme council for the development of future plans for the country to choose the appropriate ministers and officials and put long-term plans to solve the chronic problems of health, education, and administrative corruption. This should be the mission of national security and military intelligence no more. I hope that those who plan are not the same people who carry out the plans since this is a major disaster in management science. The same failure policy leads to increasing corruption with neglect and confusion of the governmental officials.

With the state of political partisanship and intellectual dependency on the Egyptian arena, many people despise the revolution of January 25 and accuse it of causing many destruction and losses. However, this was not the case in the first days of the revolution when everybody was happy in the streets hoping for better future for Egypt. The regime was retard back then to understand the new state since it was only thinking about making deals with the terrorist organization. At that time, the Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to have 88 chairs in the Parliament in order to support sectarian strife in the Egyptian society. Egypt's youth came out rejecting such chaos and mixing between politics and religion. They refused guardianship of the Church and Al-Azhar in the political matter and demonstrated against their recommendation. Those youth raised national slogans and sang the old songs of Egyptian rebels in 1919 and 1952. Furthermore, they wrote new songs and drew graffiti to express their revolution, but this graffiti is being erased by the government hoping to erase all memories related to it.

No doubt that Mr. President Abdel Fattah Sisi feels the danger of religious extremism, and thus he talked a lot about the renewal of religious discourse in many occasions. Too few steps have been taken in that account, but his visits to the Cathedral to congratulate the Copts on their feasts was a good move to face calls to prohibit congratulating the Copts on their feasts spread for years.

The United States has a strong motivation to return a strong and a great country once again after the election of Donald Trump. As a global reaction to the inauguration of Trump, many people demonstrated in America and all over the world, except in the Arab world. However Trump attacked the Muslims and Arab countries, people in these countries believe they don't have the right to choose their own president, what's more for other countries? Therefore, Arab people preferred to stay in their homes and curse those who took away their freedom. Public figures in America hate Trump who thinks he came to liberate America. Trump decided to annul Obama Care and prefers to help the Americans get jobs and pay for their own health insurance instead of waiting for the state to provide it. Trump thinks that five trillion US investments in Mexico and Canada should return to his country.

As time passes on and my new article is due I start watching the news I need to know what is going on in Egypt! A full day I did watch the only Egyptian channel I receive abroad -ESC- that is channel 1! The news I had were about the “Youth Conference” in Aswan, the visit of the Egyptian President El-Sisi and his visit to inspect the Hi Dam there his visit to Army and Police officers thanking them for their efforts to maintain security in upper Egypt! By the way I thank them too and wish them all the Best in the memorial of the Police day -25th January- and on this issue I saw some funny Facebook comments pointing out that the day was peaceful and wondering if President Trump did cut of supplies from Muslim brotherhood!