The French capital, Paris, is the city of jinn and angels, as described by the Dean of Arabic literature, Taha Hussein, and the writer Tawfiq al-Hakim
And the capital of light (the first city whose streets were lit with lights in Europe)
The French Revolution, though bloody, was a ray of culture and enlightenment
I visited it for the second time in seven years
A lot has changed, especially after the re-election of President Emmanuel Macron
Despite the violent protests of the yellow vest movement in all cities of France in 2018,
And before that the black night that France, Europe and the whole world will never forget, when suicide terrorist groups attacked several vital places in the capital, Paris, killing and wounding hundreds of French people with shock and terror.
Including the former President of the Republic, François Hollande, who saw with his eyes and heard with his ears the sounds of explosions near him while watching the friendly football match between France and Germany, the two largest political, economic and cultural powers in Europe,
These deadly terrorist attacks for the French Republic were like 9/11 for America, in the sense that they completely changed the rules of the political game on the international stage.
These human losses are unprecedented in the history of France since World War II in 1945 AD
 Or since the events of 1961 with the Algerian harkis in France.
Then world leaders came to show solidarity with France
These events came after the bloody attacks at the beginning of 2015 in Paris on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which insulted Islam and its messenger, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in 2005.
It was republished by newspapers in other countries, including Denmark
French Muslims were involved in the attack, whose victims were also Muslims, including officer Ahmed Merabet, which shows the extent of division and strife in the roots of French society, which defends the freedom of one direction in insulting Islam, as evidenced by the imprisonment of the late philosopher Roger Garaudy.
And banning the French Muslim shows indifference to Didono on the grounds of his anti-Semitism and Jews based on a court ruling from the French justice,
As a result, France and Europe are considering amending the Schengen Agreement for the movement of individuals, tightening procedures for obtaining visas, and cracking down on illegal residents without papers.
Especially after the victory of the right-wing Georgia Meloni, the first woman head of the government of Italy, neighboring France
The large Egyptian community in France comes second in numerical order after Britain for Egyptians in Europe
There are nearly half a million Egyptians in France
Almost half of them without papers came from Greece and Italy by sea to reach the cold paradise of Europe.
They work in the fields of trade, contracting, cleaning and restaurants. They live in the suburbs of Paris and the warm south in Nice, Monaco, Marseille, major cities and the capital, Paris, on the Seine River.
Among its landmarks are the famous Eiffel Tower (324 m), the Egyptian obelisk on the Place de la Concorde, the Bastille Palace, the Notre Dame Church before it burned down in 2019, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on the Montmartre plateau, the Palace of Versailles, the Elysee, the Champs Elysees, the Paris metro, the oldest and largest network in Europe, and the famous Louvre Museum, which opened a branch in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Veteran politician Jacques Lang, former French Minister of Education and Culture, heads the Arab World Institute in Paris, which was opened in 1980 in cooperation between France and the Arab countries.
But he has problems with financing
Despite the appointment of Saudi directors, the last of whom was Mujeeb Al-Zahrani, and before him was Mona Khazindar, and before them the Egyptian Nasser Al-Ansari.
There are huge Gulf and Qatari investments in France in the real estate and sports fields, including the ownership of Paris Saint-Germain Club and the Qatar Embassy with its distinguished location on the Champs-Elysees overlooking the famous Arc de Triomphe.
In which they recorded the names of the battles in which France won, including the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt
Paris is also the capital of Francophone culture and its many French-speaking countries around the world
Although some countries abandoned it in schools and universities in favor of the British, such as Tunisia and Morocco

The demographics of immigrants are different in France than in the rest of Europe.
Where the Africans from the former colonies and the presence of the Gitano Roma in large numbers, from Asia and Vietnam, as well as the Moroccans of North African countries, who are in the millions, as well as from Lebanon and the Levant,
There are radio stations in Arabic, including Orient, Monte Carlo, Al Shams, and France 24, to link Arab immigrants to their countries and culture.
The most famous announcer there is of Egyptian origin, Nagy Fam, the son of Alexandria, and there is also the Grand Mosque of Paris, the minaret and mosque for Muslims in Friday prayers and Islamic holidays.
Although France was the source of secularism, it followed the Catholic Christian doctrine of the Pope in Rome before the French Revolution of 1789, the fall of the monarchy there, the execution of Queen Marie Antoinette, the establishment of the French Republic, and the emergence of the famous French guillotine that cut off the heads from the bodies of thousands of enemies of the revolution loyal to the monarchy, but it did not use the cross as its emblem. To adhere to Christianity, as we have seen from ISIS and Al-Qaeda and its ilk who distorted the image of the tolerance of Islam around the world.
There are many Egyptian competencies in France that are difficult to enumerate in several fields, including medicine and engineering, with the influx of students to study in French universities, including the famous Sorbonne University, in which the geniuses Taha Hussein, Tawfiq al-Hakim and many other creators studied after the start of scholarships during the era of Muhammad Ali the Great, the most famous of which was Sheikh Muhammad Abdo. and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
And in the middle of the university is the statue of Champollion (deciphering the Rosetta Stone) standing with one of his feet on the head of a Pharaonic king!! An indication of the domination of the forces of the New World over the civilizations of the Old World, according to their understanding.
It could have been referred to diplomatically during President Sisi’s numerous visits to France at the French invitation, during which he was warmly received by former President Francois Hollande, the new Macron and the French Parliament to recognize the will of the people of Egypt after the revolution against the Muslim Brotherhood to correct the course of the revolution.

Popular opinion on January 25, 2011.
The relationship between Egypt and France is deep and historically extended since the failure of the Fifth Crusade, and it was the conquest of Egypt in 1221 AD led by Jean de Bares, then their second defeat and the capture of their king Louis IX in the house of Ibn Luqman in the city of Mansoura during their attempt to invade Egypt 1250 AD during the Seventh Crusade.
Then the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 AD at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte after his victory over the English in the naval battle of Abu Qir with the leaders of his army, including General Kleber (there is a street in his name at the Arc de Triomphe), who was killed by Suleiman Al-Halabi before his execution by impalement and the popular resistance in Egypt from the Sheikhs of Al-Azhar Omar Makram in Cairo and Muhammad Karim in Alexandria and Sheikh Sadat and Shabrawi.
Among the results of the French scientific campaign, scholars wrote a book describing Egypt, maps, printing and records to record births and deaths, then Muhammad Ali and the Alawite family ruled and the French project of Ferdinand de Lesseps to dig the Suez Canal during the rule of Khedive Said, who began to transfer French culture and architecture to the heart of Khedive Cairo, which is currently known in downtown Cairo. To become a miniature copy of the heart of Khedivial Cairo, currently known as Downtown, and its plan to become a miniature version of Paris.
France participated with Israel and Britain in the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956 AD in retaliation against the leader Abdel Nasser for his nationalization of the Suez Canal before the defeat of the aggression and the steadfastness of the valiant city of Port Said. , before its decline in favor of American culture and Hollywood, and there are French cultural centers and universities around the world to spread the French language and culture.
It is noteworthy that most of the Egyptian laws of civil, commercial and judicial status are taken from the French system and the social contract of Jacques Rousseau.
Monsieur Ramadan’s film by Mohamed Heneidy came to monitor a phenomenon specific to France, which is the influx of Egyptians from the Delta governorates, especially the Gharbia Governorate and the village of Mit Badr Halawa in particular, where there are many young men in Paris to work and live with the sons of the village of Sindbees, and there are thousands of Egyptians who married Maghreb women in Europe and France. also.
And there was a horrific incident in 2013 when an Egyptian in Paris, Samir El-Shishtawy, set fire to the residence of the people of his village in the Aga Center.
Petty disputes, which led to the burning of the housing completely and the death of three Egyptians from his village, then his escape before his arrest on the borders of France and Switzerland, as a warning bell about the disappearance of the morals of the Egyptian village in the country of alienation as well.
As a result of the emergence of extreme right-wing parties hostile to foreigners, and to avoid racism and the ease of obtaining a job or housing, some Egyptians and Arabs named their children with foreign French names “Mohamed/Michael-Ali/Alain,” which threatens to lose their children’s identity, and to separate them from their religious and national roots.
The religious and political division strikes Egyptians abroad as well in France, where the Brotherhood’s followers stormed the Egyptian embassy in Paris in 2014 AD in protest against the fall of the ousted late Morsi and the Brotherhood, before the French police intervened and evacuated them from the Egyptian embassy building.
Back to France, it was in the past called Gauloises, along with Belgium and part of the Netherlands
and west of the Rhine River in Germany
Before the Roman victory over it
But it is currently in Wales  called Gaul

France, the country of beauty, also has famous fashion houses such as Dior, Pierre Cardin, Louis Vuitton, and others
As well as the famous French perfume Chanel Dior Cacharel and the Sephora store in the Marriott Hotel building on the Champs Elysees, which allows its customers to try perfumes and cosmetics for free

Mathematically, France won the World Cup twice in 1998, Jill Zidane
Then in Russia 2018, the generation of Karim Benzema with the Africans of France
The Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin also saluted the idea of ​​the ancient Greek Olympic Games
And it became summer and winter alternately
Since 1896, the next edition will be held in Paris 2024