Selected Opinion

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 [...]

Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The lack of any sense of time in case of urgency seems to be among the list of idiosyncratic traits vintage to our beloved Egypt. Many were the real life [...]

By Peter Tadros – ACM- It was 9 October 2011, and an unprecedented event had just occurred in Egypt. I recall checking my social media accounts and seeing a sea of blood on my Facebook wall [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim  – Gatestone Institute – “The State Department has blocked us every step of the way. The State Department and the White House have [...]

By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies ـ Respect for human rights in Egypt – where the most fundamental rights to life, bodily integrity, and justice are violated by state institutions and [...]

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 [...]