Mohamed Salmawy's Articles

Responding to a question from a French journalist on the situation in Palestine, I said that the Palestinian cause was at the most dangerous turning point in its history.

“What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.”

The end of 2022 brought some sad news: an important centre for the dissemination of Arab culture abroad had to close down. The Saqi bookshop was one of the best known bookshops in Europe specialising in Middle Eastern political affairs, literature, history and culture.

Why did Gillian Keegan, the UK’s parliamentary under-secretary of state for Africa, meet with the Egyptian Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker when her remit is African affairs?

According to Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, speaking at a dinner banquet held in his honour during his visit to Egypt last weekend, the Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) has been hijacked by a radical force that lacks the political independence that once characterised relations between NAM nations and the great powers.