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EGYPT: Gynecologist & Cairo woman discuss female mutilation

Circumcision is known to cause psychological blockings due to the physical pain and unease that is connected to the genital area by memory.

(CAIRO WNN) - Myself I never performed a circumcision, but my colleagues tell me that it was a fairly ordinary practice here until the 1997s,” he says ”but in the years from then and until 2008, where it was made illegal, it became less ordinary.”

“I have only been repairing,” he says, referring to those one or two times a week, when a young woman will be brought in with a ‘traumatic case,’ as he calls it.

The Actual Victims Toll of 9/11

“Saddam never had any weapons of mass destruction but nevertheless, with the American invasion of Iraq, the Iraqis were destined to experience what it really meant to be bombarded with such weapons.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - It is still one of my most vivid memories ever, as I’m sure it is for many others. …

The planes crashing into the towers, the hysteria and the blunders of the mainstream media, the initial silence and ineptness of the white house, and people all over the world glued to their TVs as they watched in amazement the towers of the world trade center collapse like a house of cards on September, 9, 2001.

PRESS TV Interview: Dr. Ashraf Ezzat on Targeting Iran

“The problem lies not in this chain of US-NATO-Israel command but it lies in the chain of obedience by the people”

(TEHRAN / ALEXANDRIA) - Dr. Ashraf Ezzat a columnist at Veterans Today says the world is breaking loose from the ‘chain of obedience’ that he believes is the source of world problems.

“The problem lies not in this chain of American-NATO-Israel command but it lies in the chain of obedience by the people” Ezzat told Press TV’s U.S. Desk in an interview on Tuesday.

Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution

A letter from Cairo to the Occupy movements & other solidarity movements.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - After three decades under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread, freedom and social justice.

After a nearly utopian occupation of Tahrir Square lasting eighteen days, we rid ourselves of Mubarak and began the second, harder, task of removing his apparatuses of power. Mubarak is gone, but the military regime lives on.

Targeting Iran: World War III and The Chain of Obedience

“The World is at dangerous crossroads” “The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the World simultaneously.

Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth Weakling or Warrior?
An Analysis of Mahfouz`s Akhenaten

The real (and intrinsic) question... whose religion is right?

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Meriamun is a man on a quest: he wishes to understand the mysterious circumstances of Pharaoh Akhenaten’s rule in the days of his father in the eleventh century, B.C.(2)

Shalit: Israeli Soldier With Atypical Autism

“What the Nile TV channel host did not know was that she was going to interview a psychologically disturbed man with personality disorders.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Israel freed 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners to get Shalit back.

Beyond the debate over the rationale of Israel’s deal to release 1000 prisoners for one kidnapped soldier lies a simple fact: this Shalit deal is not only unbalanced it's also mysterious...

First Freed Palestinians Welcomed Home in Prisoner Swap (VIDEO)

Photos and video of celebration direct from Palestine.

(SALEM / GAZA) - The biggest party in the world took place in Palestine yesterday, and it does not look to be over very soon. Some report up to a million people gathered for the huge welcome home celebration of 477 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons.

It was the first of part of the two-phase event that will bring a total of 1027 Palestinians out from behind bars, a deal that Hamas reached with Israel in exchange for Gilad Shalit.

Arab Spring Blossoms For Islamists

“I certainly don’t appreciate it when the price one has to pay for freely expressing his opinion in a so-called conservative Muslim society would simply be his life.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - No, I don’t think I’m surprised, may be dismayed or worried but absolutely not surprised by the rise of hard-line Islamists in the wake of the falling dominos’ syndrome in the Arab countries, or what is better known as the Arab spring.

Revolution is a wonderful and intriguing word, what is wonderful about it, is the illusionary heralding of a new dawn with a whole set of principles by which all men everywhere can declare their own freedom. But that is something easier said than done.

Is Persecution of Christians in Cairo a CIA / TelAviv Instigated Operation?

"Something stinks about this story" - Steve Greaves with the US Boat to Gaza campaign

(SALEM / CAIRO) - The western media is whooping it up in typical fashion over the clashes in Egypt involving Coptic Christians and government forces. The mainstream press is trying to scare Americans into believing this is another 'Muslim' problem.

We have carried one message already from the Coptic Christian community, because we suspect that most are good people simply looking out for their future, however it increasingly looks like a political act designed to benefit Israel.