Selected Opinion

By Raymond Ibrahim – According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, “An Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the [...]

By Samuel Tadros – Hoover Institute – In his seminal essay, The Sorrows of Egypt, the late Fouad Ajami, noted, in his masterful prose, the numerous sorrows of modern Egypt, from [...]

By CIHRS – The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) asserts that the recent amendments ratified this month by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aim to entrench a permanent state of [...]

By Anne-Christine Hoff – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s [...]

By Daniel Pipes – Washington Times – The Islamist movement, which seeks to apply medieval Islamic laws and build a worldwide caliphate, has expanded massively in the past half-century. But it now [...]

By CIHRS – Analysis of the National Strategy for Human Rights The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released this morning a brief analysis of the National Strategy for Human [...]

By The Washington Post – Editorial Board – During his campaign for the White House, President Biden promised to restore human rights to “the center” of U.S. foreign policy — in [...]

By Miray Philips – When Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), died on September 21, 2021, the Coptic Orthodox Church [...]

By Maged Mandour – Carnegie – Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands, by creating a top-down version of state sponsored [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez* – MEMRI Imagine living a public life involving writing and speaking on sensitive issues and constantly having to look over your shoulder, wondering if you have gone [...]