Selected Opinion

By The Wall Street Journal – This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole [...]

By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News- While fans will remember the 22nd World Cup as one of the best final matches in tournament history, the games also will be remembered as the most [...]

By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh – WSJ- The country has a rich history of political dissent that has brought it to the edge of revolution. Reports of the demise of Iran’s [...]

By Maithili Pai -ISHR – On Wednesday 7 December, ECOSOC Member States will be asked to vote on the accreditation of 9 NGOs that have been arbitrarily blocked from UN participation, [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – By the time of this writing, we had the names of 385 protesters killed, including 40 women and 32 children, and 7 security men. A further 12,500 [...]

by Anba Angaelos – The Tablet – What is undeniable is the positive and proactive impact of Christian communities in the region. Whenever we hear about the Middle East, and in [...]

By Masih Alinejad – Foreign Affairs – The Beginning of the End of the Islamic Republic? The current protests in Iran sound the death knell of the Islamic Republic. The killing in [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Today’s Damavand [volcano] s made of a new generation of Iranians who don’t give tuppence about the Islamic Republic’s arcane [...]

By Mada Masr – ..Egyptian officials have been holding quiet talks with the Muslim Brotherhood, with various Gulf countries jockeying to exert control over the influential political group. [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – One of the main drivers for the founding of MEMRI 25 years ago was to present voices and narratives in their original languages, translated into [...]