Selected Opinion

By Hanan Fekry – Watani – Does a person need permission from his neighbor to say, “Oh Lord”? Has the right to kneel before God been confiscated and turned into a crime? Has [...]

By Nader Shoukry – Watani – What took place in the village of Tal al-Qibliya in Egypt’s Minya Governorate—where Coptic Christians were attacked because extremists rejected [...]

By Dr. William Weessa – Egypt’s national football team does not represent me. Nor does it represent all Egyptians, because of the systematic exclusion of Copts. What makes this [...]

Raymond Ibrahim: The Egyptian government is appropriating St. Catherine’s Monastery and the Holy Family Trail in Egypt. Now that they can be used and exploited as tourism sites the Egyptian [...]

By Wagih Wahba – A few days ago, the media carried news of the signing of a cooperation protocol between Benha University and Al-Azhar Mosque, aimed at supporting and strengthening [...]

By Khaled Montaser – This is Arabic Language Exam paper for Giza Governorate Preparatory Schools This Year. The compulsory literature/texts question is a Qur’anic verse from Surat [...]

By Mahmoud Hosni Radwan – This is not a passing warning but a genuine obituary for Egypt’s civil intellect. It is the alarm sounded by Pr. Hamed Abdallah Hamed (*). What he wrote is [...]

By Nader Shoukry – Watani – For years, the Egyptian state, in cooperation with the Coptic Church, has sought to transform the Holy Family Trail project into one of the world’s most [...]

By Dr. Craig Considine – MEF – Pakistan was founded in 1947 partly on the promise of religious equality and pluralism. Muhammad Ali Jinnah envisioned a state in which religion would remain [...]

By Hanan Fikry – Watani The issue is not about a particular religion, nor about the name of a specific group. The issue is a principle that raises a fundamental question: should freedom of belief [...]