Selected Opinion

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. [...]