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To Palestine| How can we recover from loving Tunisia?

From Sidi Bou Said to Gaza, Basel Ramsis writes of love, blood, and solidarity. On board the Sumud Flotilla, the journey resumes. Tunisia behind, Palestine ahead.

Basel Ramsis_ 11-9-2025

To Palestine| How can we recover from loving Tunisia?

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Who will upstage Netanyahu at the New York showdown?

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As Netanyahu plans to use the UN stage to pronounce the two-state solution dead, over 140 countries prepare for a historic diplomatic standoff. But where is the Arab world?

Mohamed Bassal_ 7-9-2025

Who will upstage Netanyahu at the New York showdown?

To Palestine| Paths of departure, routes of return

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Yousef’s family fled Palestine on foot in 1948. Now, aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, he attempts his first symbolic return, by sea, towards a homeland he’s never seen.

Basel Ramsis_ 7-9-2025

To Palestine| Paths of departure, routes of return

To Palestine| Messages from the sea

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No one should have to travel from the western Mediterranean to the east just because the fascist state is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Basel Ramsis_ 4-9-2025

To Palestine| Messages from the sea

To Palestine| We sail, and your hearts sail with us

Al Manassa’s writer Basel Ramsis joins the Global Sumud Flotilla sailing from Barcelona to Gaza, carrying with him the hearts of millions who cannot march or sail, but refuse to be silent.

09/01/2025 - 17:41

To Palestine| We sail, and your hearts sail with us

Sailing to Gaza, we wanted you with us Mr. Chaplin

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As thousands gather to see us off at Barcelona’s docks, Chaplin’s spirit echoes. Marching or sailing for Palestine is defending life, children, humanity, and our future.

Basel Ramsis_ 31-8-2025

Sailing to Gaza, we wanted you with us Mr. Chaplin

Tales of the welfare state and our old house

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What happens when housing, water, and education are no longer rights, but products? In Egypt’s march toward full commodification, survival itself has a price tag.

Mohamed Gad_ 24-8-2025

Tales of the welfare state and our old house

Lebensraum reimagined: The myth of ‘Greater Israel’

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Netanyahu's symbolic nod to “Greater Israel” reveals a deeper strategy: expanding Israeli control and influence across the region, from Gaza to the wider Middle East.

Mohamed Bassal_ 21-8-2025

Lebensraum reimagined: The myth of ‘Greater Israel’

The road to sectarianism begins with the kuttab

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When kindergartens move into mosques and kuttabs make a comeback, Egypt isn’t just reviving tradition. It is redrawing the boundaries of citizenship, one child at a time.

Ishak Ibrahim_ 18-8-2025

The road to sectarianism begins with the kuttab

Individualism and Violence| The myth of individual salvation

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When individual resistance fails, only collective action can dismantle systemic injustice. This last piece calls for solidarity as the antidote to the myth of individual salvation.

Mohamed El-Agati_ 17-8-2025

Individualism and Violence| The myth of individual salvation

The danger behind moving bins

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From the streets’ familiar cry for spare coins to the state’s relentless “change-fever,” Egypt’s New Republic has turned petty exactions into a governing principle.

Ezzat Elkamhawi_ 16-8-2025

The danger behind moving bins

Is Egypt hooked on Israeli gas?

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Israel-Egypt gas deal could deepen Cairo’s reliance on Tel Aviv, raising political, security, and energy risks that critics say outweigh potential economic benefits.

Amr Adly_ 13-8-2025

Is Egypt hooked on Israeli gas?

Individualism and Violence| Who will side with the loser?

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When solidarity gives way to spectacle and faith becomes a commodity, individualism reshapes justice, religion, and resistance—leaving the weakest unheard.

Mohamed El-Agati_ 11-8-2025

Individualism and Violence| Who will side with the loser?

Israel’s ‘boys’ from Bashir Gemayel to Al-Golani

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From Bashir Gemayel to Al-Golani, Israel’s “boys” are reminded of their place, first with insults, then with airstrikes. A story of colonial contempt and regional submission.

Basel Ramsis_ 6-8-2025

Israel’s ‘boys’ from Bashir Gemayel to Al-Golani

Individualism and Violence| Constructing imagined identities

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From social exclusion to imagined identities, this piece explores how modern individualism fractures community and fuels alienation under today’s capitalist order.

Mohamed El-Agati_ 22-7-2025

Individualism and Violence| Constructing imagined identities

Why a Muslim woman from New York supports Zohran Mamdani

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For a Muslim woman from New York, backing Zohran Mamdani isn’t about identity or ideology—it’s about survival, solidarity, and the city she calls home.

Lina Gamal Eid_ 21-7-2025

Why a Muslim woman from New York supports Zohran Mamdani

Individualism and Violence| Capital does not trickle down

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Despite promises of trickle-down wealth, capitalism entrenches inequality, fueling isolation, alienation, and class-driven violence from Cairo to Buenos Aires.

Mohamed El-Agati_ 17-7-2025

Individualism and Violence| Capital does not trickle down

The president is in the dark!

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A rent law uproots millions as Parliament flips overnight. Is the president unaware, or orchestrating a final act to reclaim his “savior” image?

Basel Ramsis_ 16-7-2025

The president is in the dark!

Lapid's playbook: Arab allies for Israel's ‘dirty work’

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Lapid's new plan offers Arabs incentives to suppress Palestinian resistance—outsourcing Israel’s “dirty work” while reshaping the region under Zionist terms.

Mohamed Bassal_ 10-7-2025

Lapid's playbook: Arab allies for Israel's ‘dirty work’