Dina Samak

Interview| Khaled Ali taking stock of June 30: ‘The regime’s obsession isn’t the Brotherhood, It’s Mubarak’

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Thirteen years after June 30, leftist lawyer Khaled Ali revisits the ‘third current’ that rejected both Brotherhood and military rule, and warns Egypt is nearing a new explosion.

Mostafa Bassiouny_ 7-7-2026

Interview| Khaled Ali taking stock of June 30: ‘The regime’s obsession isn’t the Brotherhood, It’s Mubarak’

Interview| Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour: June 30 won against political Islam, then lost politics

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Thirteen years on, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, a senior National Salvation Front figure reflects on Morsi’s removal, Rabaa’s bloodshed, and all what happened after

Dina Samak_ 1-7-2026

Interview| Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour: June 30 won against political Islam, then lost politics

Weaving a nuclear Kiswa: Saudi’s bid on Islamabad

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The era of the petrodollar-for-protection trade-off is over. Saudi Arabia turns to Pakistan’s "live" military weight to escape the shadow of the Abraham Accords.

Dina Samak_ 21-4-2026

Weaving a nuclear Kiswa: Saudi’s bid on Islamabad

Interview| Egypt’s ex-UN ambassador: 'You can’t buy your way to stability in the Middle East'

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“Stop the war, then we talk.” Amb. Ahmadein Khalil breaks down Egypt’s logic of silence and why Cairo resists Gulf pressure to enter a direct confrontation with Iran.

Dina Samak_ 19-4-2026

Interview| Egypt’s ex-UN ambassador: 'You can’t buy your way to stability in the Middle East'

Raphael Cohen: The translator who chose to stand on the line of fire

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Cohen's whole life has been a refusal of easy binaries—Jew or Arab, East or West, translator or activist. He carries all those identities within him, refusing to be boxed in one.

Dina Samak_ 6-10-2025

Raphael Cohen: The translator who chose to stand on the line of fire