Selected Opinion

By The Christian Science Monitor An independent judiciary is often seen as indispensable for the healthy functioning of a democracy. So it may come as a surprise to the casual observer that in [...]

By Carol E. B. Choksy and Jamsheed K. Choksy – World Affairs Journal The Saudi kingdom’s inseparability from the Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam, first espoused in 1744 and the fundamental [...]

By Al – Monitor Every year on April 24, the day commonly accepted as the beginning of the Armenian genocide, Ankara vehemently refuses to recognize the 1915 massacre and deportation of [...]

By The Washington Post U.S. intelligence agencies badly misjudged al-Qaeda’s ability to take advantage of political turmoil in the Middle East and regain strength across the region after Osama [...]

By Reuters A number of reports have been published in recent days suggesting the tide of the war in Syria may finally have turned decisively against the Assad regime. The reports cite a series of [...]

The Weekly Standard The northern part of the territory now ruled by the benighted Sudanese regime was once Christian, the domain of a church that celebrated its liturgy mostly in Greek and [...]

By Eugene Rogan – The New York Times As April turned to May 100 years ago, the Middle East was torn by unprecedented violence. Armenians across the Ottoman Empire were ordered to abandon [...]

By National Review In an interview conducted by Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review, Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow [...]

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 [...]