Selected Opinion

By Jeff Goodson – Background When long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of office in 2011, he became one of the most consequential casualties of the Arab Spring. Muslim [...]

By Eyad Abu Shakra –  Some may link the Al-Sadiq Mosque bombing in Kuwait to the escalating sectarian tensions in the Gulf region—a direct result of the Khomeinist revolution sowing the [...]

By Charles Krauthammer – The Washington Post –  In pursuit of his desire to make the Islamic Republic into an accepted, normalized “successful regional power,” Obama decided to take [...]

By Edward G. Stafford – Aleteia – The demonstrated military and administrative capacity of ISIS, which proclaimed a worldwide caliphate this time last year, will hamper efforts to [...]

By Jacob Olidort – The Washington Institute – Ultimately, with Arab states banding together to confront perceived sources of the region’s spiraling instability, Salafi groups [...]

By Middle East Briefing Comparing the reality in the Middle East to some official statements in Washington that ISIL has lost momentum and is retreating, one should conclude that either what is [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Commentator  It’s noteworthy that Francis didn’t merely make a passing comment on global warming during this or that sermon, but that he issued a papal encyclical [...]

By Markos El-Far Based on several discussions with fellow Coptic-Americans, I can say with a degree of certainty that the majority of the community strongly disapproves of the current president [...]

By Middle East Briefing The elements of whatever will emerge from this new phase in the evolution of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) will be determined by the interaction between two [...]

By Aaron David Miller – Foreign Policy In case you missed it, you should spend a few minutes watching former Amb. Alberto Fernandez’s June 10 interviewwith CBS’s Margaret Brennan. [...]