Selected Opinion

By Ellis Heasley – SightMag Australia- On 7th April Fr Arsanious Wadid, a Coptic Orthodox priest based in Alexandria, Egypt, was carrying out youth work on a seaside promenade in his home city [...]

By Farah Rafik – Egyptian Streets- It’s 2010: armed men exchange gunfire, rocks and Molotov cocktails are tossed, and deafening silence inhabits our household when my teary-eyed mother says, [...]

By David Isaac – JNS – The West is missing a critical component of the story when it comes to the persecution of Middle East Christians, said Farhad Rezaei, a visiting lecturer [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – It’s official: The United Nations, following the Muslim world’s lead, has formally accepted the concept of “Islamophobia,” a move that will undoubtedly [...]

Marina Samir – Rowaq CIHRS – Abstract : This paper raises questions about the extent to which the demand for a uniform civil personal status law, as advocated by progressive forces in [...]

By Ezzedine C. Fishere – The Washington Post – In February, Egypt’s attorney general decided to investigate the writer and talk show host Ibrahim Eissa over his questioning [...]

 By David Isaac – JNS –  According to York University’s Farhad Rezaei, what distinguishes Iran when it comes to persecution of Christians is that it is pursuing a “strategy of [...]

By Magdi Abdelhadi – Newsline Magazine – The dilemma facing Egyptians as they look to the past for a new sense of national identity. Pick up any Egyptian banknote, look at both sides [...]

By Yezid Sayigh – Carnegie Middle East Center – For Egypt to deliver on its economic projects, the tentacles of military retirees in the state bureaucracy must be cut. Egyptian President [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Providence – Azerbaijan’s government has announced that it intends to erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) [...]