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.

Today it transpires that the South Sudanese August 2015 "peace deal" was a monstrous gaffe, a cruel, tyrannical indiscretion.

Some winning candidates have considered the results of the first round of parliamentary elections a “slap” in the face of the January 25 Revolution.

The first round of the elections has ended with the following remarks: 1 - A low turnout of just a quarter of the total number of voters. This is a serious phenomenon. Among the reasons why this happened are that the youth is angry with the regime and the government deliberately issued an unfair election law so as to produce a weak parliament. Also, although the “For the Love of Egypt” list included some good people, it had other figures that are disliked. Actually, the absolute electoral list is an authoritarian system that should not be applied in any country with even the slightest margin of democracy. Add to this that people were bored from the long period in which the elections were postponed.

The topic of the day remains the economy because it is understandably what causes the most concern. Even the ongoing parliamentary elections fade in importance compared to citizens’ preoccupations with the current economic crisis.