While the entire world was assuming that the Middle East will never change since Israel was in control. Yet, as Israel celebrated feast of forgiveness, the Egyptian soldiers were laying a new line of Egyptian heroism using a creative weapon to pave the way in the heart of Bar Lev Line that was expected to function as a "graveyard for Egyptian troops". The Egyptian creativity changed the reality by denouncing racism and gave a chance to a Coptic Christian officer to develop the idea of destroying Bar Lev Line. The Egyptians used water cannons fashioned from hoses attached to dredging pumps in the canal. Other methods involving explosives, artillery, and bulldozers were too costly in time and required nearly ideal working conditions. In 1971, a young Egyptian officer, Baki Zaki Yousef, suggested a small, light, petrol-fueled pump as the answer to the crossing dilemma. Yet, Egyptian army didn t consider his religion, but his loyalty. Thus, the Egyptian army was able to triumph without terrorism or sectarian strifes.

While the entire world was assuming that the Middle East will never change since Israel was in control. Yet, as Israel celebrated feast of forgiveness, the Egyptian soldiers were laying a new line of Egyptian heroism using a creative weapon to pave the way in the heart of Bar Lev Line that was expected to function as a "graveyard for Egyptian troops". The Egyptian creativity changed the reality by denouncing racism and gave a chance to a Coptic Christian officer to develop the idea of destroying Bar Lev Line. The Egyptians used water cannons fashioned from hoses attached to dredging pumps in the canal. Other methods involving explosives, artillery, and bulldozers were too costly in time and required nearly ideal working conditions. In 1971, a young Egyptian officer, Baki Zaki Yousef, suggested a small, light, petrol-fueled pump as the answer to the crossing dilemma. Yet, Egyptian army didn t consider his religion, but his loyalty. Thus, the Egyptian army was able to triumph without terrorism or sectarian strifes.

The Minister of Social Solidarity, Dr. Ghada Wali, was honored by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Minister was awarded the WHO s Best Non-Health Ministry award for her efforts to achieve sustainable development goals, prevent infection and improve health. The program she runs, Takaful and Karama, is the largest social protection program offered by the Ministry in terms of beneficiaries and funding plan, with the Ministry of Finance supporting part of its fund and the World Bank supporting the other technical part. Wali had joined the delegation accompanying President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, a participant in the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. My greetings to the successful minister and my wishes for the other Egyptian ministers to do their best and succeed like Ghada Wali.

In one of the educational centers in Qalioubia Governorate, the 24 old Engineer Amr Salah was teaching some young people under the age of 16 how to make a robot. The steps of making a home robot was a campaign launched by Amr who offered free courses to teach young people about making robots.

She is a mother of two children, a boy and a girl, but her husband was unable to work and had to stay home for the rest of his life. Om Aya decided she has to work, but had no education or experience, and therefore, she had to work as a cleaner in a school. However, the colleagues of her daughter decided to bully her and mock her mother for being an illiterate cleaner. Her daughter couldn t study and failed this year at school. The mother decided to put an end to such miserable situation and when to a school to learn how to read and write and then continued her education till she applied to nursery academy.

I used to look at any terrorist attack against Copts in Egypt as a failure of police and think that raising our children on a culture that disrespect differences in faith or color should cause such hatred. I always thought that there is a relation between the government and police from one party and with the Salafis and supporters from the other. Such relation that allowed the Copts and their houses and churches to be manipulated, attacked and looted in the midst of a deliberate security absence despite the change of leadership on regular basis. This has changed when a policeman entered into the church cursing and calling Christians infidels and could have killed few of them if he had a gun in his pocket. This reminded me of the policeman who killed five Christians in the train of Samalout days before the revolution of January 25. They said he had mental disorder, but the disorder has always been in the mentality of police.

Marina Makram Abdul Malik is a 15-year-old female carpenter who has mastered her profession that she inherited from her father who used to encourage her. Despite her excellence in her school, she decided to follow the bath of her father and to enter a technical school to pursue her career hoping she will be able to study fine art. Marina didn t listen to the jokes of her colleagues who were surprised to see her working at the carpentry profession and even designing furniture. She was able to make great pieces of furniture supported by her family. She is indeed a bold girl and a creative artist that we should be proud of.

The Mastoura Loan project provides microfinancing to Egyptian women and also provides them with more opportunities for economic empowerment, as well as a greater capacity to create income sources to raise their families standard of living, and to enable them to contribute more effectively to society. Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Waly announced that Nasser Bank has financed more than 70 projects for women in Halaib and Shalatin with a value of one and a half million pounds after the procedures were simplified and women were able to get the loan with their national identification cards. Greetings to the Minister and to her project and to the Social Nasser Bank for further progress, projects and support for the Egyptian people.

They love their homeland and have a great sense of nationality even though they don t listen to the national anthem on daily basis as Egypt s Minister of Health sees a recipe for nationality! I am talking about a group of Egyptians who traveled to Russia to enjoy the world football cup. Yet, they had a special way of cheering which is by wearing Pharaonic costumes and stand for 6 hours daily to take photos with football fans from around the world and to give them souvenirs.

At the Korea Robot International Conference, Tarek Jamal Aldin, a software engineer and Arab robotics team, introduced the Home Robot project to develop applications that can help patients. The robot sends alerts to patients and their families when risks occur. By phone and asked for ambulances and rescue in the event of facing the owner any trouble. The new technology added by Tariq, 38, who works as an engineer in Saudi Arabia, has encouraged many foreign companies to contract him to produce this robot, but he prefers to produce it in Egypt.

They are two football teams called the tiger and the white horse. The players are former cancer patients whom have overcome the deadly disease. The new strategy adopted by Egyptian Cancer Foundation headed by Dr. Mohammed Shaalan seeks to use football to combat cancer and to encourage women to play sports.

Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy was preparing to return to Egypt from the United States, but he needed a bag to collect his clothes. He went to a store and bought one to discover that it was not totally empty. The inner pocket of the bag had an envelope containing $ 10,000 in currency. The signature of its owner was found on the envelope: James Noble.

Minister of Immigration Nabila Makram announced the launch of the second week of the second and third generations of Egyptians abroad from 16 to 21 July in Sharm El Sheikh in cooperation with the Well Spring Company for the establishment of sports camps. The conference includes history of Egypt and its pioneering role in the region and some of its sacrifices it has made over the ages.

In 2018, there were several Egyptians who specialized in hope making. On e of them is Mahmoud Wahid, president of Together to Save a Man institution. He said that he started this charity after he saw an old homeless man and decided with a group of his friends to help homeless people. Wahid explained that their facebook page is where people tell them about new homeless people in several governorates. The man calls the Egyptian president to afford accommodation for homeless people as their numbers are increasing. He also promised to spend the money he won on new places for the homeless.

Jesus Christ entered Egypt two thousand years ago fleeing from oppression. Egypt was a safe place to visit. Thus, he did not flee to a city of Judea or Galilee. When the people of Israel came out of Egypt, their hearts were attached to Egypt and many times did they think about returning to Egypt. Furthermore, history mentions that opponents of the kings of Israel used to flee to Egypt. At that time, Jesus was a child accompanied by his family and stayed there for nearly three and a half years. During the visit he visited many places and performed a lot of miracles. Egyptians did not believe then in a divine religion, but were pagan. Yet, they welcomed him and treated him well unlike fanatics nowadays whom persecute Christians in Egypt.

As everyone imagined that smart phones were driving us apart and making us isolated, other people decided to use and benefit from smart phones. One of those smart people is the actress Hend Sabry who launched a campaign during the holy month of Ramadan through a mobile application called Share The Meal .

The recent heavy rain that hit Egypt revealed the administrative corruption that led to lack of drainage for the rain or even the construction of new cities on the wrong places. It was also clear that those responsible for crisis management in our country can do nothing or do not even exist. We have to acknowledge we don t have a good management in order to have good crisis management. Were they surprised by poor drainage and bad pavement quality of the roads? A lot of money is wasted just like the water drops that the government is crying over now and trying to protect through negotiations with Ethiopia and the Sudan.

In a great movement towards improving the relations with Africa, Egypt s Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri opened one of the two Egyptian dialysis centers in Burundi this week. The center is funded by the Egyptian Agency for Partnership for Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The opening ceremony was attended by the Minister of External Relations and International Cooperation of Burundi and a number of senior officials of the State.

I would like to introduce another example of a successful Egyptian woman. She is Hoda Qutb who was born in Egypt on August 9, 1964 and excelled in the Diaspora. Hoda is a broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, and co-host of its entertainment-focused fourth hour.

The Arab women deserve to be the subject of this article though they are minimized and marginalized in the Middle East in general. Today, Arab women compete with men in the field of courage. An Iraqi and a Mauritanian women won the Courage Award, announced every year by the US State Department. The US State Department reported that 10 women won the 2018 Women s Courage Award, among them Aliia Khalaf Saleh, known as Um Qusay, and the Mauritanian Maalouma Said Bint Bilal.

The Egyptian response to the Sudanese accusations and claims that Halaib and Shalatin belong to the Sudan came very powerful and different. This time, the respond was away from army or diplomacy as it came through investment. The natural plants in this area are unique and there is a good opportunity to use it for export. Halaib and Shalatin have several medical and aromatic plants that can be exported and help the Egyptian economy. I salute those who think out of the box and face such political accusations by investment for the good of our nation. Investments are indeed more profitable than wars and even diplomacy.