The term political money is used in Egypt to describe what candidates pay to buy votes for them to win seats in parliament. It was also used in other countries to describe how certain businessmen and leaders of political parties had access to power, such as Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and others in Latin America.

Anew incident involving police brutality takes place in Egypt once more. This time, the venue was Luxor and the victim was Talaat Rashidi, who died in the Luxor police station last Wednesday morning after his arrest. Now, despite how unfortunate and sad this specific incident is, and with all condolences to the family of the deceased, I think it is neither proper nor effective to handle each of the incidents involving police brutality in isolation from other similar ones. It is true that in every single incident there are different causes, different victims and different individuals responsible. However, if we keep justifying each incident as an irresponsible individual act, then we will keep overlooking an inherent structural defect and a recurring painful phenomenon.

Sinai, Beirut, Paris, Bamako, and Tunis: the latest terror attacks across three continents are a rude reminder to our global community that vicious anti-modernity bullies continue to foment hatred and violence.

Fallout from the Syrian volcano has finally reached Europe. Mass uncontrolled migration and a parallel upsurge of violent jihad – both driven mainly by turmoil in Syria – have the potential to existentially challenge Europe’s cultural identity and its institutional structures. Europeans are beginning to sense that the latest massacre in Paris and security lock down in Belgium – all routine happenings in Syria – may be a foretaste of a grisly future Europe. Instead of undergoing a European-style “democratic transition” as promised first in 2003 by Bush and Blair, and then again in 2011 by Obama and Cameron, the Middle East is the scene of more death and destruction than at any time since the Golden Horde invaded in the 13th century.

As 2015 comes to a close, the Egyptian economy is going through a tough time—a stark change from the optimism that peaked in March with the Sharm al-Sheikh economic conference. Official figures indicate that growth this year is slowing to close to 4 %, Egypt’s credit rating has dropped, domestic debt is nearly 90% of GDP while foreign debt rose from $43 to $46 billion this year alone, and cash reserves have dwindled to $16.8 billion.

The radical opposition that was brought up in the 1952 era, with its “religious” and “secular” segments, begins from the perception that the people are an inanimate object with homogenous interests and orientations.

Q: Which awards did you win while representing Egypt? A: In 2014, I was awarded "Best Inventor in the World" by the United Nations, "First Inventor in the Middle East" by the ruler of Kuwait and "Best Inventor" by the International Festival of Talents in London. I have also obtained international patents for my invention.

No one understands why the 16-year-old Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed has been kept behind bars for 700 days awaiting trial for writing on his t-shit “A Nation Without Torture” and “January 25” on his scarf.

Pursuing Western targets has now become the new stage of atrocities committed by the so-called the Islamic State; 129 were killed and 350 injured in the Paris incidents.

Most media experts and professors, along with the audience, complain of media chaos that led to encroaching on the private life of citizens, a decline in media credibility, offending all media personnel, and — the most dangerous aspect — a turning away from following the media and a loss of respect for it.

The president's decisions in the past week and his advisers' recommendations were all alarmingly wrong. The president's decision to go to London was wrong. Two weeks before his trip I received a phone call from a friend living in London for more than 35 years, who is also an ardent supporter of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. He told me the visit should be postponed because circumstances are not favorable.

The string of terrorist crimes that killed 129 and injured more than 400 people in Paris last Friday will have a profound, far-reaching impact.

Many a time airplane disasters happen, taking place due to technical faults or terrorist acts. However, flights are still the safest and the least vulnerable to accidents among other modes of transport. After every disaster in the field of aviation, life goes on.

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood a Threat to Canada? Many reasons exist, but the most important is that the Muslim Brotherhood are not a party or political trend. They are organizing with an aim to expanding their control over institutions in Canada. They aim to redefine a variety of these institutions in accordance with their interpretation of divine, not human, law. As the group’s founder Hassan al-Banna said: Build a Muslim individual and later the Muslim community, then the Islamic state, and then the Islamic Caliphate, and finally control the world.

The Washington Post editors were perhaps guilty of being crude when they wrote the Egyptian and Russian regimes are “far less adept at fighting terrorism than they are at lying” in the wake of the Sinai plane crash. However, the justification of Hassan Fayed’s angry demand for an apology from the newspaper on behalf of Egypt’s military and tourism industry was something else entirely. The Washington Post said Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are using the fight against Islamic State to “accomplish other ends, such as repressing peaceful domestic opponents and distracting attention from declining living standards”. Hence, the downing of Flight 9268 represents a blow to them and their agendas, the tragic loss of life for Russia aside.

Commenting on the Russian plane crash in Sinai, which claimed 224 lives on 31 October, the chairman of the special investigation committee said on Saturday that the investigation is underway and that nothing has been ruled out.

Until now, we do not know exactly what charges Salah Diab and his son Tawfiq were arrested on. Is it the seizing of state-owned land or the possession of unlicensed weapons? Is it building on agricultural land or is it financial corruption?

“Democracy” was never a slogan of the January 2011 Revolution. The priority, for the masses, was rather, improving living conditions and demanding a fair share of the country’s income and wealth. The slogans of public demands were “freedom, dignity, social justice” and at other times “bread, dignity, social justice.” In the second slogan, which was the more prevalent during the first few months of the revolution, both “democracy” and “freedom” were absent. Food specifically was added to social justice which — if achieved — would make living conditions more tolerable.

In Sharm el-Sheikh the messages are mixed, with differing assessments of what may have caused Metrojet Flight 9268 to crash, and opposing views about the danger to travellers.

“We shall never sell illusions to the people”. Yes, I believed you when you said so, Mr. president. You will neither sell illusions nor will the people buy them from you, for the nation has recovered from its addiction to delusions and can now distinguish good from bad.

British-Egyptian relations are subject to the same criticism with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's expected visit to the UK. Human rights organisations, such as Amnesty International, expressed their concern about the detainees in Egypt under the current regime. Other organisations, such as Union Solidarity International, called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to rescind the invitation to his Egyptian counterpart.