AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF PRIME MINISTERS OF EGYPT- 1878-1952.  BY KAMAL KARIM KATBA. EPISODE # 4 : A - 3RD NIZARAT OF CHERIF PASHA AND NIZARAT MAHMOUD SAMI EL BAROUDY . In episode # 8, the Occupying Authorities‘ choice of Mustafa Fahmi Pasha to form a new Cabinet was based on the understanding that he was a “yes sir man” and his sympathy and allegiance to the British were well known. On September 19, 1882, that is to say, six days after the battle of Tel-el-Kebir had been fought, the following laconic Decree, inspired by the British new occupier, appeared in the Official Journal : The Disbandment of the Egyptian army!  ALSO THE AMAZING PARALLEL EVENTS BETWEEN THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF EGYPT IN 1882 AND THE US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ IN 2003 -- THE SAGA OF 'THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GLASSES" (ABUW AL-NAZZARAH AL-ZARQA' )

 
 

THE SUEZ DOSSIER - PART FOUR "   BY DR. SALAH AL-DIN AL-HOMOSANY.

 

THE STATUS OF CULTURE IN EGYPT BY DR. IBRAHIM M. ABDEL MOTTALEB -- {EPISODE THREE} Dr. Ibrahim Abdel Mottaleb, along with many astute commentators and prognosticators of all stripes, frequently notes that Egyptian culture has been in decline since the 1970's. The examples he cites touch all aspects of our culture.  If he is correct that we are in the midst of a cultural decline, can we find a way out of this dilemma?   Dr. Ibrahim's serialized articles explore these possibilities. (In Arabic)

 

"MAHMUWD WA HADUWTIT AL-MUWLID ... WA" BY  SOUMAYA MAHMOUD. A short story  evoking the childhood  memories of a  tender love of a father who is still missed, still loved,  and very dear to the heart. (In Arabic)

 

"MIN YAWMIYAT ZAHRAH" A SHORT STORY BY DR. MOHAMED NAGUIB `ABDALLAH {IN ARABIC} .

 

MUHAMMAD `UWDAH : EGYPT IS PREGNANT WITH A SOCIAL REVOLUTION ... "Parallel between Revolution and pregnancy. In the very early stages of pregnancy, if just on empirical evidence you ask whether or not someone is pregnant, the answer will be no. However, with the use of science you can determine whether the person is pregnant very early. Later on it becomes evident for everybody to see. The same thing is true of social revolution. In the early stages most people don’t see it. You always begin on the assumption that in every society that needs a revolution, the majority of the people don’t think it’s possible." P.C. ( IN ARABIC)

 

A TWIST OF FATE: THE DNA STORY -- A TRIBUTE TO FRANCIS CRICK - DNA Scientists around the world have paid tribute to British scientist Francis Crick, co-discover of the structure of DNA and the simple way in which genetic material is copied, who passed away on Wednesday night. He died at a hospital in San Diego, California, where he had been battling colon cancer. He was 88.  Crick is credited with a number of important discoveries but will be best remembered for determining the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953.

 

FROM THE LATEST OF SOUMAYA'S DIWAN: A QASIYDAH ENTITLED: KAN ISMAHA YA SAMA`IYN . . . &  BAHIYAH.BAHIYAH.

 

1-MAQAMAT AL-HARIYRIY  2-RISALIT AHMAD IBN FADLAN BY ISHINAN.  A HISTORICAL LEGACY THAT IS SHEDDING NEW LIGHT BOTH ON VIKING HISTORY AND ON A LITTLE-KNOWN CHAPTER OF EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY.

 

"IHDA' KHAS LI ZAYNAB" A SHORT  EGYPTIAN STORY BY SOUMAYA MAHMOUD.

 

THE TRAP OF DOMESTIC BOREDOM BY MS. NAGLA' MAHMOUD

 

'AZAGAL ABUW HAMIYD AL-MISRIY --  BY DR. AHMED El-TABBAKH. In Arabic.

 

LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN EGYPT BY NAGLAA MAHMOUD. PART THREE--A THREE EPISODE SERIES, WHICH CONCENTRATES ON IMPORTANT SOCIAL ISSUES IN EGYPT.  THE SUBJECT MATTER REVOLVES AROUND LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN EGYPT. ( IN ARABIC).

 

"AL-BAYT" A SHORT STORY BY MONA MA7MOUD --  IN ARABIC

 

GATEWAY TO THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT BY JANO EL-KADY ( EPISODE SEVEN). THE THIRTEEN-SEVENTEEN  ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DYNASTIES. THE 2ND INTERMIDIATE PERIOD

 

FALSE DAWN --THE CHRONICLES OF THE FRENCH EXPEDITION. ( EPISODE FIVE).

 

THE LION OF THE EAST --   (EPISODE EIGHT) THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN EGYPTIAN ARMED FORCES" The decision as to the method of recruiting soldiers for Muhammad `Aliy 's  army, and from what classes or groups in society they should be selected, were difficult choices to make. Muhammad `Aliy  ruled out the recruitment of Turks and Albanians in the modern army because he felt that they were unreliable.  By 1823, he had resorted to the recruitment of Egyptians  Fallahiyn (peasants) for the army. That year the first six battalions of the organized modern army were mustered in and the first batch officers had graduated from the Aswan Military School. The modern Egyptian  army was born..."  -

 

THE SUEZ CANAL -- THE TURBULENT LEGACY- (EPISODE NINE)

 

THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND -- BY WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT.  EPISODE FIVE - "THE GATHERING STORM." Based on the life of Ahmad `Urabiy Pasha and the 1881-1882 Revolution.

 

THE 1919 REVOLUTION -- MARCH 8th  PART. . Allenby retaliates for the assassination of  Sir Lee Stack  by ordering  the withdrawal of Egyptian troops from the Sudan, thus modifying the terms of the Condominium, and imposing a fine of half a million pounds on Egypt.

 

THE LOST MEMOIRS OF EX-KING FARUWQ I -EPISODE NINE-- ON BOARD OF THE MAHRUWSAH, JULY 26, 1952- " When a country is in the hands of its army, anything can happen"

 

EGYPT'S DESTINY BY LIWA'  MUHAMMAD NAGIYB  -- EPISODE NINE  -- CHAPTER TWO -- THE SON OF THE NILE

 

THE CROSSING OF THE SUEZ CANAL BY - Lt. GENERAL SA`D AL-SHAZLIY -( THE COMPLETE EPISODES # 1 - 43) .  In 1973 the Bar-Lev line looked so steadfast that Moshe Dayan, then minister of defence, claimed that it “would take the American and Soviet engineer corps together to break through it  But on 6 October 1973, it took the Egyptian military only a few hours to break through and overrun the “in-destructible” line.  In the end, the line that had stood up to two years of Egyptian artillery-fire throughout the war of attrition, succumbed to water. British-made high-pressure water cannons used the water of the Suez Canal to dissolve the hardened sand and melt the formidable artificial landscape into pools of mud.  Two days later, 8 October 1973, brought the most bitter defeat in IDF history, when waves of bewildered Israeli soldiers in an armoured counter-offensive broke against a dug-in Egyptian army equipped with previously unknown personal anti-tank missiles. That day, Moshe Dayan proclaimed that the “Third Temple was falling”.

 

A LOOK AT EGYPT'S EDUCATION SYSTEM BY JANO EL-KADY "Among Egypt's challenges to become an active participant in the globalized changing world of today is the nations educational system currently under close review. Holistic theory indicates that there is no one complete system but a combination of sub-system are the ingredients required for major achievements or progress."

 

"GHARAH" A SHORT STORY BY DR. MOHAMED NAGUIB `ABDALLAH  {IN ARABIC} .

 

" BOMBARD US " A POEM BY EHAB LOTAYEF

 

HAZAR FAZR CHALLENGE -- # 5-- BY ISHINAN For those with a taste for remorseless logic "Hazar Fazar" is where it all happens. Here you are taxed with everything under the sun; from strange series and mystifying matrices to cubic conundrums, exciting quizzes covering a wide varieties of topics encompassing history, geography, literature, the arts and exotic enigmas. This is puzzling fun at its most acute and is guaranteed to have you biting your fingernails in frustration, but the very the end the ultimate aim is to broaden and sharpen your mind.

 
 

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