Selected Opinion

By Elisabetta Brighi  – Open Democracy – In 25 January 2016, Giulio Regeni, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, disappeared while carrying out field work in [...]

By TIMEP – Egypt’s legal framework is an important angle through which to understand the state of religious minorities in the country. This brief delves into some of the primary issues [...]

Reviewed by Daniel Pipes – Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World – by Christian C. Sahner – Princeton: Princeton University Press, [...]

by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promises to launch “a new republic” this year, led by a development boom and a new commitment to [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On November 17, 2021, the U.S. State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern…. despite several [...]

By Mina Thabet – TIMEP – In November 2019, I was able to communicate with my friend Ramy Kamel, a prominent Coptic activist and blogger, for the last time before his arrest [...]

By Dioscorus Boles – On the 6th January 2022, the YouTube channel, Coptic Orthodox Church, published an 8-minute massage by Pope Tawadros II, titled Papal Message, Christmas 2022, [...]

By Dioscorus Boles – Last night, I watched, like millions of Copts from across the world, the Liturgy of Holy Nativity that was broadcast from the Cathedral of the Holy Nativity of Christ [...]

By The Washington Post Editorial Board – Egypt issued its national “human rights strategy” in September to mixed reviews. A hopeful few regarded the measure as a positive [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – MEF – Despite Facebook’s zeal at censoring so-called “hate speech” and “offensive content,” violent, radical, and murderous [...]