Sisi announced lately to increase the price of the metro ticket to almost 66% which means more expenses on the shoulder of the Egyptian family. Its normal to increase the fees of public transportation but its not normal to increase it by 66% percent at one time. Normally, all countries increase prices from 2 to 5%.

It seems that we will see a repeated cenario of what happened in the 2016 elections in the US. All polls refer to Joe Biden winning the election and then suddenly wake up and find that Trump won his second term. Unfortunately, the deomcratic party failed to candidate someone who can inspire Americans as it was before. Its really sad that american has to choose between two old folks 74 and 77. When you fail to candidate a young person who can inspire people in all America, that means that America is old as well and started to suffer from disease that infect old people.

The explosion that destroyed a huge area from lebanon and resulted in a lot of victims and casualties in souls and buildings opened a lot of questions related to politicians and parties in Lebanon. Unfortunately, Lebanon is a victim of external parties that tries to impose certain doctrines on lebanees and that what divided them and might lead to a civil war like the one was in the 70th.

The WHO organization lost its reputation over the last few months and all of that because of different messages that WHO provide to the whole world. One time WHO says there is no solution for Covid19, next day, the same organization says it should be a medicine in a few months to this virus. WHO and his chief is very contradictory in all their statements and that shows there is no good management to this organization and the main problem to this contradiction is the negative message that people receive from this statements.

Life most of the time needs us to take the risk and not be afraid of trying new things or changing lifestyles, however, because humans always like stability and feel afraid of any change in his life, he lives stuck in the same routine forever. Risks sometimes bring big prizes and the only effort any one needs to do is to take the step and not be afraid of losing what you have. Sometimes you can t win big until you lose the small things that you are clinging to.

While we are close to the American election, I see most polls and recommendations go toward confirming that Biden is the winner and he is the next US president. Unfortunately, doesn t like someone should drag us to have a fair and objective opinion about each candidate s chances to win this election. I remember last election, all polls chose Hillary Clinton as the winner of the US election, however, that dream was demolished by announcing Trump as president of the United States. Everyone including myself believed that Hilarry is the winner because of what the media tried to convince us with.

Turkey is doing nothing recently except revoking Egypt and Europe in many ways. Erdogan feels he is the king of the region and doing anything he wants regardless of other countries interests. Turkey is trying to dominate Libya, Iraq and Syria and threatens Egypt and Europe by interfering in their affairs and threatening their national security Which no doubt put pressure on these countries to fight back and engage in conflicts with others.

Unfortunately, I feel that Ethiopia deals with the River Nile issue as a compromising issue and neglects to recognize that River Nile for Egyptian is a non-compromised issue and it’s a matter of life or death not only for the politician leaders but also to every Egyptian. All what Egyptian needs is to secure their water in the coming centuries and to make sure that they will not suffer from thirsty in the near or the far future, however, the way Ethiopia deal with the situation show that Ethiopia is not serious and trying to delay and avoid all attempts from Egypt and Sudan to solve this problem.

President Sisi announced lately that Egypt might enter Libya and fight against Libian who are supported by Fayez El-Sarag who is also supported by Turkey. The situation is very difficult and the picture looks very complicated as there is no doubt if Sarag troops reached to “ Seert” and “ Goffra” they would represent a real threat to Sisi because if the Brotherhood was a neighbour to Egypt that might cause a lot of troubles and turmoil to the Sisi regime.

It seems that Egypt is facing real challenges in many issues, Libya from one side and Ethiopia from another side, however, in my opinion, the Ethiopian issue is more serious and is a real threat to all Egyptians. We need to greet Egypt for the diplomatic efforts that have been done so far. Egypt has exhausted all means to convince Ethiopia to have agreement with Egypt and Sudan before starting in running the “ Nahda Dam”.

People tend to refuse any advice other people try to introduce to them and think they know everything, and they are adults enough to get advice from anyone. While Covid19 increases drastically in Egypt and the number of deaths and infected people increase every day, we see a lot of Egyptian not taking the disease seriously enough and they are still insisting in not practicing social distancing or be cautious to not group with families or friends.

The visit that President Trump made to the church beside the white house while the army beside him reminded us of what we see in the middle east. A president with the army means that the army is going into politics and that s very dangerous at least for the US. It was a new scene for the US to resort to the army to show power beside the president although we know that the army in the US is not involved in Politics. I read a statement to general Milley who appeared with Trump admitting that appearing with Trump was a mistake which is a good gesture.

After the death of George Floyd in US the demonstration erupted everywhere in US asking for justice and in return the US started to threaten the people by saying that dogs are waiting demonstrator who will get in to the white house. This statement from president Trump reminded me of presidents in the middle east during the Arab spring when there were threatening their citizens if the approached their palace.

I read recently that Covid 19 lead to death of about 19 Doctors from “Elmoneera hospital” and can t deny that once I read that I got scared of the level of cautious and measurements that ministry health adopt. Its not fair that Doctors in hospital to die because lacking protocol or measurements that provide the minimum protection to front line doctors and nurses who are the most vulnerable people in this crises.

Father and bishop Rewis died last week and I didn t know much about his history but I saw and listened to him many times. Bishop Rewis was general bishop not a bishop of a certain diocese and he always was refusing to be responsible for the diocese. I don t want to talk too much about his history, but I want to mention what I have witnessed with my eyes and with my ears. Bishop Rewis was always in “Asrriat Al-Rehan” church and I get used to going there especially in St. Mary fast.

While we are all busy following up the news about Coronavirus and the number of infected people and the number of deaths every day, there are many things we read and pass on it although it expresses a big concern of how things are going in Egypt in terms of human rights situation. Lately the young director “Shady Habash”, in the prison and Egypt s prosecutor-general said that young Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash died in prison due to alcohol poisoning after he drank a sanitizing solution he thought was water as Al-Ahram news paper said.

Sometimes you need to learn from others especially those who are simple and not complicated. Lately my sister was telling me a story about an old simple lady in upper Egypt who goes every day in front of the church and prays. I was just contemplating this story and asking myself how many people thought about this idea. We all may be thought to go to get groceries and make sure that we have enough for months, we all make sure that we do our work and all necessary staff, however, how many of us thought to go and just pray in front of the church a simple prayer.

Everyday we read about theories that announce the end of America as we are in a war against America not against “Covid19”. People still don t feel that we are facing a serious disease and instead to focus on fighting this pandemic we started to analyze what s after Covid19. People have the right to analyze the future after Covid 19 but not to wish and dream for America to die after this pandemic. It s well known that after any pandemic there are a lot of events that could happen such as famine, wars or changing regimes, however, this doesn t apply only to America but to each country.

With whats going on right now and everyone is quarantined at home, people have to seize this opportunity to think about others and look backward of who you should ask about and you didn t from long ago. While we are celebrating resurrection, we need to know that resurrection not only to celebrate that Christ raised from the dead but also to celebrate the chance to raise ourselves from any weakness we face or suffer from.

The whole world now has nothing to talk about except opening the economy, from what I read about different pandemic in the past that a lot of countries rushed to open the economy and that caused a lot of death to happen more than before. For Example, when the Spanish flu started, many states in the US rushed to open the economy and unfortunately that caused more death than the benefits people get from opening it.

After this pandemic hit Egypt, the main concern now is the irregular workers who don t have any back up plan to feed their families. Unfortunately, Egypt doesn t have any plan for such people and they will suffer either from hunger because they don t have any other source of income or they will suffer from threats of being sick because they have to leave their homes and work to feed their families.