Selected Opinion

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. [...]

By Nina Shea – National Review  In a blitzkrieg of mass deportations, beheadings, women-slave auctions, and imprisonment of children, ISIS captured Mosul on June 10, 2014, and from there [...]

By Gary Sick – Politico The level of turmoil in the Middle East is greater than at any other time in my nearly fifty years of watching this region. Amid this perfect storm comes the most [...]

By Michael Knights – Foreign Policy That last point is exactly the problem. The United States is constantly redoubling its efforts, because it’s drip feeding support to Iraq at a time when [...]

By Eric Trager – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy The delegation is being hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), which hosted a similar delegation in [...]

By The Wall Street Journal Even as the United States struggles to combat Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, swift U.S. action is urgently needed in these new Islamic State outposts to stop [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online  This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday 2 June. Yet again news comes of Coptic families expelled from their villages, [...]

By Mada Masr Controversial TV host Islam al-Beheiry deserves to be in prison, as his ideas endangered “faith security,” Al-Azhar Dean of Sciences Abdel Moneim Fouad told the privately owned [...]