Selected Opinion

By Henri J. Barkey  – Washington Post It is difficult to see how Humpty Dumpty will ever be put back together again. To be sure, many Middle Eastern states were mostly illegitimate to begin [...]

By David Tolbert Denial, the last bastion of those who commit genocide, disrespects the victims and their communities and lays a foundation of lies for a future that is likely to be characterized [...]

By Harlan Ullman – World Tribune Just when events in the Middle East could not seem to be more complicated, this web of intrigue and danger has become even more complex and intertwined. [...]

By Ishak Ibrahim – The Atlantic Council Dr. Mahmoud Dahroug, a man of over sixty, lives in a constant state of suspense, fearing he will be arrested to serve a five-year prison sentence [...]

  While it is historically convenient to designate a particular day for the remembrance of these Christian martyrs, the Armenian genocide can be said to have actually begun with [...]

  There was actually no mistake about it: The fact is, the Armenian Genocide cost 1.5 million Armenian Christians their lives, along with another million Assyrian and Greek believers.   [...]

  Most American historians who have examined the question agree that what the Armenians experienced was a deliberate, calculated genocide:   More than one million Armenians [...]

    A war of extermination.   The target of the Turks was their large Armenian Christian population living within the Caliphate, whom the Turks feared was loyal to Russia.   [...]

    “The historic Istanbul cathedral and museum, Hagia Sophia, witnessed its first Quran recitation under its roof after 85 years Saturday,” reported the state-run [...]

  In May last year, rumors started to circulate in a village near the Egyptian city of Luxor that a Christian resident had insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Kyrillos Shawky, 30, began receiving [...]