By Mohamed Saad Khairallah – On November 14, the Egyptian program Dawlat al-Tilawa (Recitation State) was launched. It is a major religious competition aimed at discovering and nurturing [...]

Nearly a quarter-century after 9/11, the U.S. has taken aim at a leading incubator of Islamic terrorism: the Muslim Brotherhood. Previous attempts to proscribe the group, including by the first [...]

By WSJ-EB – President Trump wanted the attention of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, and he’s got it. On Friday Mr. Trump designated Africa’s most populous nation a “country of [...]

By Attorney Saeed Fayez – His Excellency the President, With sincere greetings, respect, and appreciation worthy of your esteemed office, I am honored to present this letter to Your [...]

By Said Fayez — Attorney at the Court of Cassation – Amid the rush of daily life and the noise of major national issues, many human stories are lost—stories that deserve our attention. [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August 2025. Mozambique and [...]

By Dr. Nabil Aziz Abdel Malek – Unfortunately, this problem is not limited to Coptic girls being lured or coerced into conversion. It is bigger and interconnected with other issues, but its [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – “Other groups were reported held hostage in Dar’aa and Idlib, locations where the Jolani regime is still utilizing ‘extra [...]

The Moderator: At the outset, before delving into the third segment of my dialogue series with the human rights activist and political analyst Magdi Khalil, I wish to express my profound personal [...]

By Caroline Rose, Colin P. Clarke – Foreign Affairs- Nine months after the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by a rebel offensive, Syria faces a litany of new challenges. The [...]

By Hossam Badrawi – Al-Masry Al-Youm – In a time when politics and religion overlap and roles are being reshaped within Egypt’s institutions, there is an urgent need to reaffirm the [...]

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By Corriere della Sera – The Egyptian general wants to turn the religious and archaeological site into a tourist hub. Greece is outraged. In the end, at bottom, it’s just a Christian monastery. [...]

By Sameh Fawzi – Al-Shorouk – No one knew what transpired during the visit of Patriarch John X Yazigi, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, to Syrian President Ahmad al-Shara‘. Yet the [...]

By Sophia Mandt – In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very [...]

By Rick Plasterer – Juicy Ecumenism – The Institute on Religion & Democracy’s Blog The abduction and trafficking of women and girls from religious minority communities in [...]

By Mohamed Saad Khiralla – After exploring in the first part of this interview with human rights activist and political analyst Magdi Khalil the historical and political background of the Coptic [...]

By Ishak Ibrahim – Manassa- In a new wave of accelerating the religiousization of education, particularly at the early stages, the Egyptian government has shown enthusiasm for a plan [...]

By Mariam Wahba-The Free Press- The state’s suppression of St. Catherine’s is a microcosm of Egypt’s broader campaign against the country’s Christians—including my family. St. Catherine’s [...]

By Mohamed Saad Khiralla (blog) – For quite some time now, and with increasing intensity in recent months, a systematic campaign has been underway to present a “new look” for Egypt’s [...]

Magdi Khalil: Co-founder of Coptic Solidarity and Co-founder of the Middle East Freedom Forum discusses concrete examples that the Coptic Orthodox Church has been aware for decades, of the [...]

By PJ Media – Middle East and Islam specialist, Raymond Ibrahim, interviewed Coptic Solidarity’s president, Caroline Doss Esq., after the organization wrapped its 13th Annual [...]

by Ishak Ibrahim – Al-Manassa- The bombing of St. Elias Church in Damascus last month has reignited deep fears—not only for the future of Syria’s Christians but for the very existence and [...]

Aired on CBN News on July 3, 2025 Gary Lane – International News Director & Senior International Correspondent for CBN News hosted a TV program on a session from Coptic [...]

By Uzay Bulut – The European Parliament recently approved a financial assistance package for Egypt worth €4 billion, despite the country’s ongoing persecution of the Christian population. [...]

By EIPR – EIPR (The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights) expresses deep concern over the repercussions of the ruling issued by the Ismailia Court of Appeals concerning Saint Catherine’s [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Streem – The Muslim world often gets away with things that would send shockwaves through the international community if anyone else did them. On May 29, reports [...]

By Adel Guindy – Al-Hewar – On May 28, the Sharm el-Sheikh Court issued a ruling claiming that the ownership of the historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery and all its property belongs to the [...]

By M. Mahmoud – In 1844, Damietta experienced a general state of sectarian tension and attacks on Christians and foreigners in the city. Every other day, there were sectarian incidents, [...]

By EIPR – On May 11, 2025, Egypt’s Parliament passed a new Law on the Regulation of Islamic Fatwas, drawing criticism from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal [...]

By Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez* – MEMRI- In terms of sheer carnage, the bloodiest war going on right now would be Ukraine. In terms of media coverage, the most minutely covered and obsessed [...]

By Rachid Hmami – Christian Solidarity International – In the midst of ongoing turmoil across the Middle East, marked by instability in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, minorities often find [...]

By  Mohamed Saad Khiralla In that spirit, I revolt against a complicit silence that conceals centuries-long, systematic oppression. I raise my voice against a horrifying pattern of forced [...]

By Peggy Noonan – WSJ- This being Holy Week and Passover, a small reflection on Scripture. There are stories and moments in the Old and New Testaments that grab hold of us, some from the [...]

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution on March 28, officially recognizing March 23 as “Pakistan Day.” The resolution, [...]

by Lawrence A. Franklin – Gatestone – [Ahmed] Al-Sharaa, on taking power in Syria in December, originally professed to be a “moderate.” The Biden administration even lifted a $10 [...]

By Jules Gomes – MEF – Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham Militants and Terrorists Have Been Targeting Alawis, Christians, and Other Minorities Across Syria When Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmad [...]

Fawaz A. Gerges – Foreign Affairs – Why Islamist Rebels Are Unlikely to Become Democratic Rulers After half a century of tyranny, the Assad family’s rule over Syria has come to an end. [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Today, Turkey’s Christians (Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians) comprise only around 0.1% of the population despite being indigenous peoples of the land. A significant reason [...]

By Ishak Ibrahim – Manassa (*) – While the United Nations celebrates the International Day of Education on January 24th, emphasizing the need to provide equal access to quality education [...]

By Steven Stalinsky As Jihadi Persecution Of African Christians Continues – From Torching Churches And Terrorizing Villagers To Beheading And Murdering Nuns And Priests – Not A Peep Is Heard From [...]

By Theo Padnos – Persuasion – A personal essay on regime change in Syria, by an American Journalist who was covering Syria an Turkey affairs for a number of US and UK publication. In the [...]

By Milton Quintanilla (via AINA) – Christians in Syria face uncertainty about their rights and freedoms after Islamist rebel forces conquered Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus. Hay’at Tahrir [...]

By Charles Jacobs, Uzay Bulut – JNS – The life and suffering of the Coptic minority in Egypt is a due to the Islamic invasion, dominance and ongoing persecution that occurs under Islamic rule. In [...]

By Michael Wahid Hanna – Foreign Affairs – When War Broke Out in Gaza, Biden Reconciled With Sisi—but Trump’s Calculus Might Differ. In May, after an Israeli military offensive prompted a [...]

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The capture of Aleppo by Turkey-backed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces is terrifying news for Kurds, Yazidis, Christians and everyone else whom jihadists [...]

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by extremist Muslims throughout the month of October 2024. Burkina Faso: On Sunday, October 6, Muslim terrorists launched a [...]

By Mariam Wahba – The Washington Examiner – Julia Atef, 21, never made it to church on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 26. No one has heard from her since she left her family’s [...]

By Uzay Bulut– Gatestone Institute – According to reports, since 2009, Muslims, inspired by Boko Haram, have murdered more than 150,000 Christians in Nigeria. Chad, Libya, Sudan, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim  – The Stream – If Fake News is a “threat to democracy,” what about Fake History? Although more subtle — Fake History is certainly more difficult to [...]

By Jonathan Spyer – WSJ – Fawzia Sido’s decadelong captivity illustrates the connections between ISIS, Hamas and other jihadists. I got an unexpected message from a longtime friend and [...]

by Walid Tamtam- BWO- Discrimination of Copts in Egyptian sport damages human rights, religious liberty, and the country’s results in international sport events as well. Copts are the indigenous [...]

By Joe Lipuma – AINA – August marked the 10th anniversary of the ISIS genocide perpetrated on the Christians, and other minority communities, of Northern Iraq. For the Christians there, [...]

By Ashraf Helmy – The Christian minority in Sudan has continued to suffer systematic violations over the past years, whether at the hands of the ruling Islamic regimes or terrorist [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – PJ Media – On Aug. 6, the Christians of Iraq commemorated the tenth anniversary of “The Black Day” — when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) invaded [...]

By Ramsen Shamon – Newsweek (via AINA) – My relatives fled Mosul to save their lives before ISIS invaded and seized power in the summer of 2014. The invasion of Iraq’s second [...]

by Daniel Pipes – Washington Times – (*) As everyone knows, the growth of a Muslim population in the United States, roughly three-quarters immigrant and one-quarter convert, has led to an [...]

By Uzay Bulut – The process of the Islamization and Arabization of Egypt started when Arab Muslims invaded in the 7th century On the evening of April 23, a large number of Egyptian [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – There’s a global pandemic right now, but you won’t read about it in our media. It’s claiming thousands of lives, in a dozen countries. I’m talking [...]

By Mohaned Elnour (via TIMEP) – Sudan’s Christian community has been consistently targeted by both the RSF and SAF since the beginning of the Sudan war, in acts that can be considered war [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – An old drama highlighting the ongoing but wholly unacknowledged  Muslim persecution of Christians is once again playing out in one of its primary theaters: [...]

By Tasos Kokkinidis – The Greek Reporter (via AINA) – The Armenian Genocide, the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and [...]

By Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – The worst humanitarian crisis in the world today is in Sudan, not in Gaza or Ukraine. The ordinary Westerner might be confused given the obsessive coverage [...]

By Suzanne Maloney – Foreign Affairs – How the Islamic Republic Is Remaking the Middle East. The Israel-Hamas war—and the possibility that it may explode into a wider conflagration—has [...]

By Matt Schierer – MEMRI-  “Blessed are those whoare those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 5:10 Today, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2024 — which, among other things, brings awareness to violence against women — a [...]

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Egypt’s military has always sought political power. The military coup of 1952 was the cornerstone of a long line of military leaders. All subsequent coups took place [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – Turkic genocidal bloodlust against its ancient victim, Armenia, is on the verge of flaring out again, though the world fails to see. On Feb. 13, [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Middle East Forum – On February 13, 2024, less than a month after both Turkey and Azerbaijan threatened Armenia with renewed war, Azerbaijan killed four Armenian [...]

By Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez* – According to Iranian sources, after the killing of three American soldiers by an Iranian-controlled militia drone on January 28, the Biden Administration [...]

By Amir Taheri – The Gatestone Institute – If you thought you knew all you need to know about the war in Gaza, think again. Much depends on where and how you get your news from. Last [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “Every two hours [in Nigeria], a Christian is killed for their faith.” — Open Doors, April 22, 2022. [T]he Associated [...]

By Aleteia – The very first days of January are filled with the echoes of New Year’s bells – and resolutions. To help us take these fresh beginnings to fruition, contemplate the [...]

By Mark Basta –  Berkeley Political Review – On July 18, world news spread as an Egyptian Court sentenced Coptic Egyptian human rights advocate, Patrick Zaki, to three years of prison [...]

By Knox Thames – RNS — Human rights advocates are experiencing a painful purgatory of in-betweenness. The Advent season reminds Christians of the time between a promise and its realization. [...]

by Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute – The world’s “strategic eyes” should have looked closer at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – The more than 1,400 Israelis who were brutally slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, got what they deserve—according to the most prestigious [...]

By Ed Husain – The Wall Street Journal – Islamism, incubated in the 1920s, belittles Islam’s sacred text for barbaric ends. Hamas isn’t only a terrorist group, and it isn’t [...]

By MEMRI – A few days ago, Qatari Ambassador to Washington Meshal Aal Thani, the brother of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani, published an article in the Wall Street [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan engaged in a bit of wild projection over the weekend.  According to one report, Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party staged a massive [...]

By Randel Everett – 21Wilberforce – Freedom of religion is both America’s first freedom and a universal human right. Yet many people around the world live in countries where this [...]

By Al-Monitor – On the centennial of the Turkish Republic, its citizens are debating the country’s evolution and how it measures up to the vision of modern Turkey’s deeply [...]

By Lisa Anderson (*) – Foreign Affairs – As Israel readies for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, much attention has shifted to how Egypt will respond in the coming days and weeks. [...]

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – After besieging and starving 120,000 Armenians of the South Caucasus Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) since December 2022, Azerbaijan launched a [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim  – The Islamic scimitar is rattling with Christian blood again. In late 2020, war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Two months later, peace was achieved [...]

by Knox Thames – The Hill – The torching of churches in Pakistan has brought to global attention the dire state for religious minorities in that troubled country. Matters related to [...]

By the Editorial Board – The Washington Post – On Saturday, Egypt’s authoritarian president pardoned Ahmed Douma, a blogger and protest leader who was one of the best-known faces of [...]

By Ben Sixsmith  – The Critic-UK – Our leaders should take a firm stance on anti-Christian violence  Life is difficult as a Pakistani Christian. Technically, one has freedom [...]

By Steven A. Cook – Foreign Policy – Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the grips of what could be described as “Sisi-mania.” Songs, sandwiches, music videos, [...]

by Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – If logic worked in politics, the question to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should have been: Why has your country so passionately [...]

By Patrick George – Daraj- Following is the article, originally published (in Arabic) in July 2019, that led to the arrest and trial of the author. Not a month goes by without tragedy striking [...]

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – magine if you are a child from a persecuted religious minority living in one of the world’s most oppressive countries. The country’s [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “[T]here was absolutely no case. There was no proof against Noman, and none of the witnesses produced by police could corroborate the [...]

By Foreign Policy – Waiting for change in Afghanistan is like waiting for Godot. Hatred is stalking the women of Afghanistan, pushing them further into darkness as world leaders appear to be [...]

By Riccardo Fabiani, Michael W. Hanna – Crisis Group – Egypt faces an economic crisis that risks fuelling unrest. The International Monetary Fund demands reforms in return for loans, while [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – Resorting to jihadist rhetoric, Esra, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—who just gained another five years as [...]

by Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Atatürkism… tried to reinvent Turkey’s identity as a modern state claiming Hittite and Celtic roots, distancing itself from the [...]

By Sara Khorshid – Foreign Policy – Western leaders and filmmakers have long denied the link between modern Egypt and its ancient heritage. When former U.S. President John F. Kennedy [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – The evidence is overwhelming. “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands…” — Aurora [...]

By Anzhela Mnatsakanyan – greek city times (via AINA) – In both historiography and public memory, the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire is almost solely associated with the Armenian, [...]

By Natasha Dado – The National – The world must act fast to prevent what happened to religious minorities during this period from continuing before it’s too late The 20th [...]

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – As long as man has existed, discrimination of all forms has existed in our cultures – gender, race, disabilities, religion. Legislation usually outlaws this behavior [...]

By Hannah Srour-Zackon – Sherif Meleka’s epic novel Suleiman’s Ring uses the Biblical characters of David and Solomon to explore the persecution and expulsion of Jews from Egypt. [...]

By Dr. Sherif Younes (*) – It is assumed that the return of the child Shenouda to his family, who raised him, is a happy ending to an unfortunate event (assuming that this is a final [...]

By Matija Šerić – Eurasia Review (via AINA) – At the beginning of this year, the Christian international network Open Doors presented data on the oppression, discrimination and persecution [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream- The United Nations has spoken: March 15, is “International Day to Combat Islamophobia.” Why March 15? While there are many ways to debunk the significance of this [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – A little known, though highly controversial, Islamic teaching is back in the news.  According to a Feb. 21, 2023 report, Turkey’s highest religious (and [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – [T]he Biden administration’s decision to delist Nigeria from the list of Countries of Particular Concern was [...]

Par Agnès Pinard Legry – Aleteia – Les années passent mais le choc et la violence demeurent. Le 15 février 2015, une vidéo montrant le massacre de 21 chrétiens coptes, vingt Égyptiens et un [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Her “crime” was that her son was accused of being romantically involved with a Muslim woman. Islam assumes the man is superior, [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – Most Assyrians are Christian and speak Assyrian (also known as Syriac, Aramaic, or neo-Aramaic), one of the world’s oldest languages and the [...]

By Philip Kosloski – Aleteia – He lived in solitude in the desert, but he wasn’t alone. St. Anthony the Abbot (251 -356; also called St. Anthony of Egypt or St. Anthony the [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The Egyptian folk saying goes: “Oh God who eases difficulties! The bigger portion has been accomplished … what remains is less”. I am talking about the churches and [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – MEF – Many in the West heard of the severe atrocities the jihadists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) committed against the [...]

By Robert Barron – WSJ – Intimidation doesn’t bring peace and joy. Infants do. There’s something about a baby. If introduced into a crowded room, everyone will want a glimpse. Conversations [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole [...]

By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News- While fans will remember the 22nd World Cup as one of the best final matches in tournament history, the games also will be remembered as the most [...]

By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh – WSJ- The country has a rich history of political dissent that has brought it to the edge of revolution. Reports of the demise of Iran’s [...]

By Maithili Pai -ISHR – On Wednesday 7 December, ECOSOC Member States will be asked to vote on the accreditation of 9 NGOs that have been arbitrarily blocked from UN participation, [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – By the time of this writing, we had the names of 385 protesters killed, including 40 women and 32 children, and 7 security men. A further 12,500 [...]

by Anba Angaelos – The Tablet – What is undeniable is the positive and proactive impact of Christian communities in the region. Whenever we hear about the Middle East, and in [...]

By Masih Alinejad – Foreign Affairs – The Beginning of the End of the Islamic Republic? The current protests in Iran sound the death knell of the Islamic Republic. The killing in [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Today’s Damavand [volcano] s made of a new generation of Iranians who don’t give tuppence about the Islamic Republic’s arcane [...]

By Mada Masr – ..Egyptian officials have been holding quiet talks with the Muslim Brotherhood, with various Gulf countries jockeying to exert control over the influential political group. [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – One of the main drivers for the founding of MEMRI 25 years ago was to present voices and narratives in their original languages, translated into [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Armenia awoke on September 13, 2022 to an uncertain future after Azerbaijan attacked it in the dead of night. As Trey Blanton reported on location, [...]

By Dr Themistocles Kritikakos – GreekHerald (via AINA) – 100 years later, the trauma that Greek survivors experienced during the final years of the Ottoman Empire has been passed on to [...]

By Farahnaz Ispahani, Elaine Alam – The Religious Freedom Institute – As the United Nations observed August 22 as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Taking over the Muslim Brotherhood was supposed to complete Erdogan’s victory over the Fethullah Gulen movement, leaving ” the [...]

By Samuel Tadros – ProvidenceMag – On Sunday, August 14, a new tragedy befell Egypt’s Copts, a fire at Saint Marcurius Church in Imbaba has left 41 dead, including 18 children and the [...]

By Thomas Farr- WSJ – By pushing faith to the margins, the U.S. undermines its moral leadership abroad. Americans have never agreed that one religion is true and good, but we’ve [...]

By J.B. Shurk – Gatestone Institute – When presidents and prime ministers make and enforce their own laws under the pretext of “emergency powers,” then citizens should not [...]

By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptians were shocked last month by the brutal stabbing murder of a college student, Naira Ashraf, in front of Mansoura University’s gates. The [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “Muhammad Irfan came to my shop for wheel balancing for his motorbike. I balanced the wheel and demanded my amount of labour as [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Last May 29, 2022 in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey, elaborate celebrations were held to commemorate the 569th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – I have taken it upon myself to never give up on calling for reform of Egyptian legislation so as to achieve equality between men and women in inheritance. [...]

by Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Today the Islamic Republic of Iran is the only standard-bearer of true Muhammadan Islam. (..) Other nations need not convert to Islam to [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – Turkey is now using the distraction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a cover to increase its likelihood of officially annexing [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – Islamism and nationalism in Turkey combine in an even more ambitious form. Where does “the East” begin? The question is as much political as [...]

By Knox Thames – RNS — The power of these summits is in bringing together all stakeholders around advancing religious freedom. Nigerian Christians murdered during worship. China [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim Where is the outcry? When an Australian, Brenton Tarrant, attacked two mosques and killed 51 Muslims in 2019 in New Zealand, the world stood in condemnation; the [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The United Nations recently named March 15 as “international day to combat Islamophobia.”  That date was chosen because it witnessed one of the worst terror [...]

By Agnès Callamard and Kenneth Roth – Foreign Affairs – For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Once again, a large governmental body has exposed itself as morally bankrupt if not wholly bereft of legitimacy.  On May 18, 2022, the European Parliament, one of [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – On Thursday, a Muslim mob beat and burned to death a female Christian student in Nigeria.  She was apparently accused of “blasphemy.” A [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The American Thinker – On April 24, the grand imam of Islam’s most prestigious institution, Al Azhar, delivered an address before the heads of [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Day by day, it seems that the ruling class and their media mouthpiece are dedicated to one principle: find problems where none exist and ignore real problems that are [...]

By Ellis Heasley – SightMag Australia- On 7th April Fr Arsanious Wadid, a Coptic Orthodox priest based in Alexandria, Egypt, was carrying out youth work on a seaside promenade in his home city [...]

By Farah Rafik – Egyptian Streets- It’s 2010: armed men exchange gunfire, rocks and Molotov cocktails are tossed, and deafening silence inhabits our household when my teary-eyed mother says, [...]

By David Isaac – JNS – The West is missing a critical component of the story when it comes to the persecution of Middle East Christians, said Farhad Rezaei, a visiting lecturer [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – It’s official: The United Nations, following the Muslim world’s lead, has formally accepted the concept of “Islamophobia,” a move that will undoubtedly [...]

Marina Samir – Rowaq CIHRS – Abstract : This paper raises questions about the extent to which the demand for a uniform civil personal status law, as advocated by progressive forces in [...]

By Ezzedine C. Fishere – The Washington Post – In February, Egypt’s attorney general decided to investigate the writer and talk show host Ibrahim Eissa over his questioning [...]

 By David Isaac – JNS –  According to York University’s Farhad Rezaei, what distinguishes Iran when it comes to persecution of Christians is that it is pursuing a “strategy of [...]

By Magdi Abdelhadi – Newsline Magazine – The dilemma facing Egyptians as they look to the past for a new sense of national identity. Pick up any Egyptian banknote, look at both sides [...]

By Yezid Sayigh – Carnegie Middle East Center – For Egypt to deliver on its economic projects, the tentacles of military retirees in the state bureaucracy must be cut. Egyptian President [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Providence – Azerbaijan’s government has announced that it intends to erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) [...]

By Elisabetta Brighi  – Open Democracy – In 25 January 2016, Giulio Regeni, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, disappeared while carrying out field work in [...]

By TIMEP – Egypt’s legal framework is an important angle through which to understand the state of religious minorities in the country. This brief delves into some of the primary issues [...]

Reviewed by Daniel Pipes – Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World – by Christian C. Sahner – Princeton: Princeton University Press, [...]

by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promises to launch “a new republic” this year, led by a development boom and a new commitment to [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On November 17, 2021, the U.S. State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern…. despite several [...]

By Mina Thabet – TIMEP – In November 2019, I was able to communicate with my friend Ramy Kamel, a prominent Coptic activist and blogger, for the last time before his arrest [...]

By Dioscorus Boles – On the 6th January 2022, the YouTube channel, Coptic Orthodox Church, published an 8-minute massage by Pope Tawadros II, titled Papal Message, Christmas 2022, [...]

By Dioscorus Boles – Last night, I watched, like millions of Copts from across the world, the Liturgy of Holy Nativity that was broadcast from the Cathedral of the Holy Nativity of Christ [...]

By The Washington Post Editorial Board – Egypt issued its national “human rights strategy” in September to mixed reviews. A hopeful few regarded the measure as a positive [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – MEF – Despite Facebook’s zeal at censoring so-called “hate speech” and “offensive content,” violent, radical, and murderous [...]

By Laila Soueif  – The New York Times – Standing outside the Tora prison complex, where my son is held, a mother asks me: What’s your son in for?  “Politics,” I [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – My readers will find a large portion of this article similar to, if not an outright repetition of what I wrote before on the legalisation of unlicensed [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, “An Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the [...]

By Samuel Tadros – Hoover Institute – In his seminal essay, The Sorrows of Egypt, the late Fouad Ajami, noted, in his masterful prose, the numerous sorrows of modern Egypt, from [...]

By CIHRS – The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) asserts that the recent amendments ratified this month by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aim to entrench a permanent state of [...]

By Anne-Christine Hoff – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s [...]

By Daniel Pipes – Washington Times – The Islamist movement, which seeks to apply medieval Islamic laws and build a worldwide caliphate, has expanded massively in the past half-century. But it now [...]

By CIHRS – Analysis of the National Strategy for Human Rights The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released this morning a brief analysis of the National Strategy for Human [...]

By The Washington Post – Editorial Board – During his campaign for the White House, President Biden promised to restore human rights to “the center” of U.S. foreign policy — in [...]

By Miray Philips – When Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), died on September 21, 2021, the Coptic Orthodox Church [...]

By Maged Mandour – Carnegie – Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands, by creating a top-down version of state sponsored [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez* – MEMRI Imagine living a public life involving writing and speaking on sensitive issues and constantly having to look over your shoulder, wondering if you have gone [...]

Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The lack of any sense of time in case of urgency seems to be among the list of idiosyncratic traits vintage to our beloved Egypt. Many were the real life [...]

By Peter Tadros – ACM- It was 9 October 2011, and an unprecedented event had just occurred in Egypt. I recall checking my social media accounts and seeing a sea of blood on my Facebook wall [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim  – Gatestone Institute – “The State Department has blocked us every step of the way. The State Department and the White House have [...]

By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies ـ Respect for human rights in Egypt – where the most fundamental rights to life, bodily integrity, and justice are violated by state institutions and [...]

By Tawfik Hamid – WSJ – The West needs a better system for identifying radical Islamists and cutting out the religious underpinnings of jihad. Twenty years ago, 19 of my fellow Arab [...]

Florian Ripka-ACNRepublished by Aleteia It was 10 years ago, but the pain is still raw. On the night of Friday, January 31, 2011, a terrorist attack killed 21 people and wounded 79 others [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – More importantly, perhaps, it may be naïve to demand that Taliban give up terrorism — the very method that has given them some [...]

By Anne-Christine Hoffb – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s [...]

By Lauretta Brown – National Catholic Register – As the last of the U.S. troops left Afghanistan Monday and the Taliban has taken control, many fear for the religious minorities in [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – The immediate question everyone faces is whether or not to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government. To start with, the current [...]

By Joel Beinin,  Allison McManus – Jacobin – In the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make an important Middle East policy decision that will illuminate the Biden [...]

By Mai el-Sadany, Yasmin Omar – Carnegie Endowment – New amendments to the law governing Egypt’s highest court are the latest in a series of steps intended to eat away at the international [...]

By Malala Yousafzai – The New York Times – Ms. Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, is an activist for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize [...]

By Hakan Topal – Hyperallergic – I recently visited the Hagia Sophia for the first time after its conversion and felt overwhelming sadness. On the occasion of the 2003 Istanbul [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – After the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and military and the victory of the Taliban, some experts have warned of the danger of a failed [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – A Muslim father-of-four abducted a 13-year-old Christian girl, forced her to convert to Islam, and then “married” her.  According to the father of [...]

By Daniel Pipes – National Interest – “More Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ over the last thirty years—and specifically over the last seven to ten years—than at any [...]

By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP – Egypt is in the process of building the largest parliamentary building in the Middle East in its New Administrative Capital. Last year [...]

By Steven Howard – Providence – In today’s hyperpolarized environment, Beltway commentators and even think-tank scholars seem unable to resist the temptation to put a partisan twist [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – All throughout sub-Saharan Africa — in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo — Muslims are terrorizing and [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Conquering Christians and turning their churches into mosques seems to be very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days.  Last Friday, [...]