Selected Opinion

By Caroline Rose, Colin P. Clarke – Foreign Affairs- Nine months after the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by a rebel offensive, Syria faces a litany of new challenges. The [...]

By Hossam Badrawi – Al-Masry Al-Youm – In a time when politics and religion overlap and roles are being reshaped within Egypt’s institutions, there is an urgent need to reaffirm the [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim (Video)

By Corriere della Sera – The Egyptian general wants to turn the religious and archaeological site into a tourist hub. Greece is outraged. In the end, at bottom, it’s just a Christian monastery. [...]

By Sameh Fawzi – Al-Shorouk – No one knew what transpired during the visit of Patriarch John X Yazigi, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, to Syrian President Ahmad al-Shara‘. Yet the [...]

By Sophia Mandt – In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very [...]

By Rick Plasterer – Juicy Ecumenism – The Institute on Religion & Democracy’s Blog The abduction and trafficking of women and girls from religious minority communities in [...]

By Mohamed Saad Khiralla – After exploring in the first part of this interview with human rights activist and political analyst Magdi Khalil the historical and political background of the Coptic [...]

By Ishak Ibrahim – Manassa- In a new wave of accelerating the religiousization of education, particularly at the early stages, the Egyptian government has shown enthusiasm for a plan [...]

By Mariam Wahba-The Free Press- The state’s suppression of St. Catherine’s is a microcosm of Egypt’s broader campaign against the country’s Christians—including my family. St. Catherine’s [...]