Egyptian Chronicles

In the days before the war, YAHIA BARZAQ became the first professional photographer in the Gaza Strip to specialize in photographing newborns and babies. Barzaq started capturing images of n...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/04/gaza-war-portfolio-of-israels-newborns.html

First, Chag Sameach On Sunday, scores of right-wing religiously fanatic Jewish Israelis began to flock to East Jerusalem in preparation for the celebration of Passover bringing with them livest...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/04/les-vaches-qui-condamnent-cherchez-red.html

Happy Eid El-Fitr to the dear readers of the Egyptian Chronicles around the globe especially those who are observing. A very special Happy Eid El-Fitr to the people of Gaza, Sudan, Syria and Ye...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/04/happy-eid-despite-all-hardships-and-war.html

Today marks the 54th anniversary of the horrifying Israeli bombing of Bahr El-Baqar school in Egypt’s Sharkia governorate where over 40 people were killed including 30 children and over 40 othe...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/04/bahr-el-baqar-school-bombing.html

We are in the last tenth days of Ramadan and here we are with the video I filmed before the Holy Month would start from El-Sayeda Zeinab Ramadan Market or as Western Muslims prefer to call it �...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/04/kodak-agfa-presents-el-sayeda-zeinab.html

So, I am sharing this new documentary released and produced by Al-Jazeera Documentary “Stern: The Man, the Gang and the State” Directed by Egyptian documentary filmmaker Hossam Serhan , thi...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/03/watch-in-ramadan-stern-man-gang-and.html

“I will shock you, ask me what is the price of this huge red lantern?” The old vendor at Al-Sayeda Zeinab Ramadan Makeshift market told me. “Shock me” I replied. That huge big hand...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/03/kodak-agfa-presents-in-photos-and-video.html

First, Ramadan Kareem Second, I cannot post the usual Ramadan 1001 Arabian Audio Nights as I have done in the past years and there are two genocides taken on Egypt’s borders whether in Gaza ...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/03/ramadan-arabian-nights-2024.html

I do not know how I missed this, but you must watch the official advisory opinion of the League of Arab States “LAS” at the International Court of Justice “ICJ” on Israeli violations in P...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/03/watch-this-arab-league-slams-israel-in.html

Today marks International Women’s Day and the world celebrates it superficially under slogans of “empowerment” and “gender equality” while women suffer all over the world in one way or...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/03/gaza-war-2023-this-is-what-real-humans.html

This is the first true Egypt-centric post after weeks of covering the Gaza war. “I will continue covering this war, this post is exceptional.” In case you do not know the Central Bank of Eg...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-egyptian-pound-march-2024-s.html

This post was originally intended for Valentine’s Day, as a reminder to a world celebrating love that love also exists in Gaza.  The idea began as a plan to share a glimpse of Gaza before th...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/02/once-up-valentine-in-gaza-love-in-time.html

Watch the official advisory opinion of Egypt at the International Court of Justice “ICJ” on Israeli violations in Palestine on Wednesday at the Hague   Egypt’s statement in the hearing...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/02/watch-egypt-speaks-about-75-years-of.html

For nearly 12 agonizing days, many Palestinians, as well as Arabs, have been haunted by a single question: Where is little Hind Ragab?  Tragically, the answer has surfaced in the most harrowin...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/02/where-is-hind-hamada-this-is-not.html

On January 31st, Haaretz, an Israeli publication, released an investigative report uncovering how a local ultra-Orthodox Jewish volunteer group exploited the tragedy of the October 7th attack fo...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/02/investigate-7-october-independently-for.html

"Do you want to witness a war crime?" asked a Palestinian man to the young aspiring TV journalist seeking a story with a different humane angle in Northern Gaza during a brief truce in late Novem...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/02/gaza-war-after-hague-what-really.html

The Israeli officials are doing what they had been doing best besides killing and occupying other people’s territories, they are spinning the truth and once again the Western media spread the I...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/israel-is-officially-demanded-to-stop.html

I do not feel I have the luxury to write another nostalgic or political post about the #Jan25 Revolution. Aside from the fact I already believe that the real revolution started on 28 January, not...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/remembering-jan25-gaza-in-heart-of.html

On Thursday, the news came from Gaza to the world. The Israeli shelling killed Mohamed El-Dora’s brother. Gamal El-Dora said farewell on Friday to his son Ahmed El-Dora who was killed the ...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/gaza-war-israeli-later-kills-mohamed-el.html

Sunday marked the 100th day since the start of Israel’s bloodiest war on Gaza. Yes, we are on day 103 but it feels like 102 years for Palestinians in Gaza as well as many Arabs across the world...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/gaza-genocide-in-100-days-worlds-epic.html

This post was intended to be published on the first day of the year, but with the numerous events unfolding in Gaza, Sudan, and Egypt, it became challenging to maintain the schedule. The Palest...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/gaza-war-2023-this-is-what-real-humans.html

Merry Christmas to all those Celebrating Christmas on 7 January eve around the world above them in Egypt and a very Merry Christmas to the Christians celebrating it in Gaza and the Armenian quart...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/merry-christmas-orthodox-edition-from.html

South Africa has made history by being the first country to bring Israel, a state often criticized for disregarding numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions, to the International Cour...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/gaza-war-south-africa-stands-with.html

Happy New Year 2024 I am angry and frustrated. I find myself feeling angry and frustrated because I’ve come to realize that this world once again does not really care for us truly as Arabs ...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2024/01/happy-new-year-dear-f-world-from-gaza.html

Updated on: 4/1/2024  Up till now, there has been no official Egyptian  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Saturday that the border area known as the "Philadelphi Corridor"...

https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-philadelphi-corridor-experience-we.html