AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF PRIME MINISTERS OF EGYPT- 1878-1952.  BY KAMAL KARIM KATBA. Episode One deals with the reign of Khedive Ismail, where we witness the birth of the "Nizara" dubbed as the "European Ministry" which was headed by the Armenian Nubar Pasha (1824-1899)  under not so ideal conditions.

 
 

CLONING BY DR. ABDELHAMID ATTIA.  Cloning is  on the cutting edge of modern medical science. The revolutionary procedure constitutes a  highly controversial and complicated issue both technically and "ethically".  Professor Abdelhamid  Attia, of Cairo University Faculty of  Medicine, presents aspects of cloning in a simplified manner for the non specialized readers.

 

THE SUEZ DOSSIER - PART ONE " THE CANAL ZONE: THE NATIONAL PROBLEM"  BY DR. SALAH AL-DIN AL-HOMOSANY. Over the years the Suez Canal Zone base, had grown to become the largest military installation that Britain had anywhere in the world.  With some 70,000 British troops  the Canal Zone replaced the lost Indian Army in Imperial strategy, and constituted a vital bastion for the west in the Cold War. Fundamentally, therefore, the British never expected or intended to quit  particularly in view of the lever it gave over the oil regions of the Middle East.  For the Egyptians this was what the press called the "National Problem."

 

THE ALEXANDRIAN CHRONICLES:  1-A RIDE ON THE ALEX TRAM BY ISHINAN

 

THE BITTER TRUTH -THE THIRD ACT.  BY DR. IBRAHIM M. ABDEL MOTALEB.  An Egyptian theatrical play in Arabic.

 

A DREAM COME TRUE BY LIZZY K. KATBA. Born in England, a series of incidents (fate) brought  Lizzy to Egypt where she fell in love with the country and its people.  They in turn, the Egyptians, fell madly in love with her, and one particular Egyptian really fell in love with her.

 

HADUWTAH MALTUWTAH   (AN EGYPTIAN SHORT STORY IN ARABIC): AKHBAR AL-GHALA' FIY BILAD AL-WA' AL-WA' BY HAZEM WEFY

 

EGYPT IN MY EYES BY SAYED MOHAMMED :  AN ESSAY ON  "MUBARAK EGYPTIAN"

 

OCTOBER MAGAZINE COVER : GAMI` - MADRASAH AL-SULTAN QALA'UWN BY ISHINAN.

 

ZAGAL ABUW HAMIYD AL-MISRIY -- `AYDIY QA`ID LIYH? BY DR. AHMED TABBAKH. In Arabic.

 

OF WOMEN IN ISLAM --   FEMALE SECLUSION IN ISLAM  DURING THE ABBASID PERIOD . BY MERVAT MOHAMMED MAHMOUD. The system of  female seclusion in  vogue in many Muslim societies  today did not come into practice until long after the  Republic.

 

THE EDUCATION CRISIS IN EGYPT - 4-  THE RUWAD SOCIETY; THE QUIET REVOLUTION. BY ISHINAN .This episode is about distinguished Egyptian scholars and a few political leaders forming the Ruwad  (Pioneers) Society and analyzing the unhealthy aspects of Egyptian society and government, while mapping out a comprehensive cure for the economic and social ills which they had diagnosed.

 

GATEWAY TO THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT BY JANO EL-KADY ( EPISODE TWO). Some 5000 years ago a civilization was just awakening that would still leave us mesmerized by it's beauty, it's knowledge, it’s culture, it’s love of life and their preparation and belief in a better life to come in the "afterlife". This civilization was, of course, that of Ancient Egypt.

 

FALSE DAWN --THE CHRONICLES OF THE FRENCH EXPEDITION. ( EPISODE TWO). THE UNWITTING GAME OF BLIND MAN'S BUFF.  The fate  of Egypt 's future  is about to be determined by the unwitting game of blind man's buff  that Admiral Nelson and General Bonaparte are playing with each other across the vast expanse of the indifferent Mediterranean Sea. Admiral Nelson sails from off Cadiz, with three battleships, two frigates, and one sloop, with orders to approach Toulon and to collect information concerning the French armaments in the  port .  Meawhile,  on May 19, 1798 Bonaparte boards l'Orient, a ship of the line with 120 guns, with General  Berthier and his personal staff, and follows the rest of the fleet out to sea on route to Egypt.

 

THE LION OF THE EAST -- MUHAMMAD `ALIY'S BEGINNING IN EGYPT - (EPISODE TWO) Muhammad `Aliy along a troop of three hundred men are recruited from the district of Qawalah for service of the `Uthmanliy in the war against the French in Egypt.

 

THE SUEZ CANAL -- THE TURBULENT LEGACY- (EPISODE SIX)  The industry of the fallahiyn opened the way across the Isthmus, hollowing out with their hands and their primitive tools the Canal bed which machinery was soon to complete.

 

THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND -- BY WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT.  EPISODE TWO - "MY DEALINGS WITH KHIDIWIY SA`IYD  PASHA." Based on the life of Ahmad `Urabiy Pasha and the 1881-1882 Revolution.

 

THE 1919 REVOLUTION -- MARCH 8th  PART FIVE. THE ULTIMATUM. 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 -- WHAT REALLY HAPPENED :  EPISODE TWO: The Communist propaganda octopus is rubbing its tentacles with delight!

 

EGYPT'S DESTINY BY LIWA'  MUHAMMAD NAGIYB.  -- EPISODE TWO THE LOST WAR.  From its onset,Nagiyb's was critical of the 1948 Palestinian war which he described as  largely a series of truces interspersed with minor battles. Time and again Muhammad Nagiyb was forced to hold his fire while the Jews delivered munitions to the front in the guise of supplies for isolated settlements of colonists.

 

THE CROSSING OF THE SUEZ CANAL BY - Lt. GENERAL SA`D AL-SHAZLIY -(EPISODES # 35 -41) .  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”.

 

THE SAGA OF THE ARABIAN-ISLAMIC CALENDAR -  2 THE MONTH OF SAFAR BY ISHINAN . The calendar represents an open window through which one can peer into one of the most interesting and fascinating aspects of the Arabian culture during Pre-Islamic times and its impact on civilizationin  subsequent centuries.

 

"THE BRIDGE BETWEEN" :  POEM BY EHAB LOTAYEF

 

ZAGAL ABUW HAMIYD AL-MISRIY BY DR. AHMED TABBAKH In Arabic --

 

HAZAR FAZR CHALLENGE -- # 2 -- 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.