Selected Opinion

By Laila Soueif  – The New York Times – Standing outside the Tora prison complex, where my son is held, a mother asks me: What’s your son in for?  “Politics,” I [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – My readers will find a large portion of this article similar to, if not an outright repetition of what I wrote before on the legalisation of unlicensed [...]

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 [...]