Selected Opinion

By Tawfik Hamid – WSJ – The West needs a better system for identifying radical Islamists and cutting out the religious underpinnings of jihad. Twenty years ago, 19 of my fellow Arab [...]

Florian Ripka-ACNRepublished by Aleteia It was 10 years ago, but the pain is still raw. On the night of Friday, January 31, 2011, a terrorist attack killed 21 people and wounded 79 others [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – More importantly, perhaps, it may be naïve to demand that Taliban give up terrorism — the very method that has given them some [...]

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

By Lauretta Brown – National Catholic Register – As the last of the U.S. troops left Afghanistan Monday and the Taliban has taken control, many fear for the religious minorities in [...]

By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – The immediate question everyone faces is whether or not to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government. To start with, the current [...]

By Joel Beinin,  Allison McManus – Jacobin – In the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make an important Middle East policy decision that will illuminate the Biden [...]

By Mai el-Sadany, Yasmin Omar – Carnegie Endowment – New amendments to the law governing Egypt’s highest court are the latest in a series of steps intended to eat away at the international [...]

By Malala Yousafzai – The New York Times – Ms. Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, is an activist for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize [...]

By Hakan Topal – Hyperallergic – I recently visited the Hagia Sophia for the first time after its conversion and felt overwhelming sadness. On the occasion of the 2003 Istanbul [...]