I was asked to write an article for this new section in our website under the title of "Smile of Hope". It aims to spread both smiles and hope among our readers. I was thinking what to write among all the negative issues that faces us. I decided to search for positive things and train my eyes to see them once again. I found many examples in the subway where you can find many rich stories. I saw an old woman who looks tired but enjoys a wonderful smile, especially with the handicapped child with her. People tried to help her and a doctor with us asked her about her daughter. She thanked God before she tells the story of her children that suffer from this disease that kills them once they turn twenty years old. She already lost three children and only this girl remains.

Some people may think that the crisis of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate will make the people forget about the crisis of the two Egyptian islands, Tiran and Sanafir, that were sold to the Saudi Arabia. The crisis of Journalists Syndicate came due to the lack of freedom of speech and violations to it in Egypt. This happens with claims to enforce of the law, but this law is simply ignored every now and then like when the son of Egyptian writer Hassanin Heikal came to Egypt in order to attend his father's funeral, and then he traveled back without being arrested though his name is on the travel ban list. TV presenter Ahmed Moussa was wanted and was found guilty by court and traveled outside Egypt on the presidential plane. Mortada Mansour was also wanted and police couldn’t break into his apartment to arrest him. Our law is only applied on the poor, but the great thieves are untouchable.

Well I know this is the third time Osama Kamal and his program Cairo 360 is the start point of my weekly article and this is due to several points, I'll mention some of them but not all:- 1. Osama Kamal is calm and logical comparing Ahmed Moussa or … (with all due respects) 2. Today's -February 6th May 2016- Show Cairo 360 concerns me as:- 1. Retired Employee of I.S.S.R which stands for Institute of Statistical Studies and Researches 2. Graduate of faculty of Sciences Cairo University Pure Mathematics but at a point of time as a student in that faculty took courses in Statistics and how to conducts them!

By observing the clashes that happened lately between the syndicate of the journalism and the interior ministry, I can confirm without any hesitation that we need an immediate reform. This reform not to any of these institutions but the reform they need is to their behaviour and their morals. When you follow these events, you will find out that every side was waiting for a mistake to the other side, however, that shouldn’t be how two main institution in the country deal with each other. There is no doubt that Interior ministry was trying to repeat what it was doing in the past before the 25th revolution. Interior Ministry not only called the thugs “Honorable citizens”, but also, they let them hit the journalists and injury them, for example, They injured “ Abd Al-Aleem Dawood” a journslist from Al-wafd newspaper.

When Diocletian issued decree to burn the churches and the demobilization of the Christians from work and confiscation of their property, St. George was a Christian prince in Cappadocia. He decided to declare his Christian faith and torn the king’s decree into pieces.

Chief of journalists said that he will not shoot himself to treat his headache. He forgot about the serious situation in Egypt and the call of the President to unite against conspiracies that threaten Egypt. Chief of journalists decided to hide fugitive criminals inside the journalists syndicate. He called to remove the minister of interiors as if he is taking control of the country. He threatened to take the crisis to an international level. He should have punished those who fight against Egypt in the current situation. The seventh day newspaper said that 70 soldiers were killed in Sinai and were the first to accuse the Egyptian police of killing the Italian student.

The recent escalation against Journalists Syndicate leading police to storming the Syndicate last Sunday in order to arrest two journalists, which is considered the first incident in 75 years. The police have violated the law of the Syndicate, which states that the inspection of the Journalists Syndicate is only permissible for a member of the public prosecutor in the presence of journalists’ Chairman or his representative (Article 70).

On May 2nd, Egyptians celebrate the feast of Sham El Nesim, which is an old feast dates back to the Pharos. On that day, Egyptians go out and enjoy the green parks and eat colored eggs and different kinds of fish as well as spring onion. This feast was prohibited by the extremist Islamic scholars several times; however, the Egyptians love to celebrate that feast and enjoy its traditions in the open.

Once again a conflict with the respectful Osama Kamal of 360 degrees TV program! He did his best to praise and give respect to Jesus and his beloved mother St. Mary the Virgin that God said you will be praised for ever in the WHOLE WORLD! However, turning his program in a Christian Occasion to an Islamic gathering full of conflicts and as a first one was what was said by M. Abd Alla El Naguar he said and repeated his say more than once that Jesus was born by a miracle from the Virgin Mary -correct- WITHOUT A FATHER?! -Biggest error and conflict ever heard! WHO IS OUR FATHER the FATHER OF ALL HUMANITY AND ANY LIVING PERSON?

Happy Easter to all the Copts in Egypt and all over the world. Today, I want to shed light on the many meanings behind the Easter Feast. Easter is not an ordinary feast where we just remember the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but it's a real chance to think deeply about how God always has new ways to resurrect us from death. As it's mentioned in the Bible, His way is different from our way, the difference is like the distance between Earth and Heaven. Every year Easter comes, we have to thank our Lord Jesus Christ for giving us the opportunity to see how valuable we are in His eyes. So much so, that He didn't mind to come down to earth for our sake. Easter is not just a celebration but in fact, it's a real reconcilation between God and mankind.

During the Holy Week, you may ask yourself why you serve Jesus Christ. This is a question that you should answer honestly. You may choose to serve since you have free time, or you may seek benefit or fame or authority. You may also aim to develop your skills or you may seek a job inside the church.

Our dear homeland is indeed facing a fierce war and several conspiracies led by America and its lackeys, such as Turkey, Iran and Qatar. It also uses agents including journalists, activists and businessmen. There are calls to overthrow the great Egyptian leader Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. At the same time, several friendly European and Arab countries rushed to support Egypt and its president, army and its people. Saudi Arabia funded several cultural and social projects in addition to military. France also supported Egypt and gave a lesson to London and Italy assuring that individual accidents like the death of the Italian students occur every day in all parts of the world, such as the killing of a Italian student in Geneva last week.

On the occasion of Easter that Copts are celebrating next Sunday, I call the president to have mercy on the Copts who were wronged by the Egyptian Judiciary in order to please fanatics even if against justice. I call him to issue presidential amnesty. This call comes also by several organizations in order to achieve justice for those Copts. Here I mention several names of those Copts including Girgis Baromi who is impotent but sentenced to prison for raping a child! There are several names in the same list including the children of Beni Mazar who were sentenced to prison on charges of contempt of Islam and Teacher Demiana Abdul Nour and many others.

A friend asked me: Why do you oppose the president after you supported and elected him? I told him that supporting a person once doesn’t mean to support him forever. I disagree with my family and friends, let alone the president! I was thinking about the great writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, who criticized the revolution of 1952 in his book "The return of consciousness" after he had supported it strongly to the point that Nasser himself considered him the spiritual father of the revolution of 1952.

In the past few weeks following my return to Egypt as I was furious on what happened to me and not wanting to write about it I was avoiding to write or trying to be brief in my articles not to talk about UK immigration officers, I'm not going to speak about it yet but I'll go back to my usual way of writing and analysing event, and as a start I have to point out that writing weekly articles makes me feel like a press personal or author which puts me in the same category president El-Sisi was complaining about!

After the parliament agreed on their government agenda 2 days ago, we must stop and think deeply about them. Is the parliament ready to defend Egyptians’ interests and achieve their dreams, or are they only here to satisfy the Authorities and the President? Any Parliament in the world should represent only the people of its nation, not authorities, because it is through parliament that we can pass laws related to taxes, pensions, education, and a lot of different perspectives of Egyptian life. Furthermore, the parliament is also responsible for passing any agreements between Egypt and other countries, like the last agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where Egypt allegedly gave the two islands of Tiran Sanafir to Saudi Arabia.

I read what was written by a Saudi writer who demanded Egypt to pay thirty-three billion dollars for using the “Saudi islands of Tiran and Snafir”. However the Egyptian government waivered the islands ignoring the bloodshed of the Egyptian soldiers who died to liberate the land, I don’t care if the islands are Egyptian or Saudi, but I was surprised to hear that man demanding Egypt to pay a lot of money for using the islands. In fact, the Egyptian blood is priceless. Yet, it should be known that Egypt has donated money, food, water, medication and security for the poor people in Saudi Arabia.

Although "Tiran and Sanafir" crisis has escalated and grew bigger very fast like a snow ball, which spoiled the achievement claimed by the Egyptian administration by the visit of the Saudi King to Cairo. The reactions to the crisis exposed failure and ignorance of many public figures. However, the religious institutions refused to comment, support or oppose. Al-Azhar and the Church announced that they don’t have comment on such political decision since they only work in spiritual matters. However, many Egyptians had comments including professors who know nothing about the matter and even changed their points of views by changing the televisions they were hosted at.

Egypt is currently facing fierce wars, which can be considered wars of survive. This makes them more important than World War II. These wars don’t target cities and logistic locations, but rather the Egyptian people, their identity, morals and religion. This way they use the Egyptians to destroy their country instead of using traditional guns. In fact, they found out that social media is much cheaper. They decided to buy new agents who carry the Egyptian nationality and work in several NGOs. Those agents aim to spread rumors, frustration and lie about Egypt and underestimate all national projects and divide the Egyptian people. They use ignorance of the people in every aspect of life to bring the best results.

I was astonished by a group of Egyptians who demonstrated to demand to put the Red Sea islands of Sanafir and Tiran — long considered Egyptian possessions — within Saudi territorial waters. I think they are very stupid to demand so as the Egyptian people really appreciate their land. The demonstrators claimed that they out of faithfulness, Egypt should hand the islands to the Saudi Arabia. Yet, they know nothing about faithfulness since you have been stealing money of the Egyptian people for years. This is what have been claimed by the strong man who worked with the Egyptian inelegance chief Omar Suleiman. I mean Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal, director of the Office of Omar Suleiman.

This is the nick name of Antigua and Barbuda but I’m not going to talk of Antigua or its twine Island Barbuda but another twine Islands existed always close to Egyptian territories and under their control but never belonged to Egypt and suddenly after the Saudi Arabian King visit to Egypt they become of top priority and the main subject in Egypt every one has his own view some based on the historic speech of ex-president Nasser R.I.P. When escalating the Egyptian stance from Israel on 1967 and his desire to close the Akaba Golf on Israeli Navigation which led to the war of June 1967!