Selected Opinion

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – While many states in the Middle East and North Africa seem trapped in a death spiral of despair, the 2019 overthrow of Sudan’s Islamist dictator Omar [...]

By The National News – Will the new US president be tough on an old ally or is it business as usual – what the first weeks of Mr Biden’s presidency tell us about his view of Cairo. In the short [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Pope Francis made history this week when he became the first pope to visit Iraq, a risky trip amid heightened security risks and surging coronavirus infections. [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – New evidence linking Turkish president Erdogan to Islamic terrorists has just emerged. Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, a longtime friend and colleague of Erdogan, who was [...]

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – CAIRO — The Biden administration is struggling to reconcile two inescapable truths about Egypt: It’s an important friend and ally of the United [...]

By Lord Alton of Liverpool – Independent Catholic News Lord Alton gave the following reflection at the Coptic Commemorative Meeting today. It is an honour to join you for this day of [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “[T]he killing, rape and forced conversion of Christian girls have become an everyday matter and the government has denied this [...]

by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Ten years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old produce vendor, self-immolated to protest harassment from Tunisian government [...]

By Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor- It has been 10 years since the 2011 revolution brought down the Mubarak regime, but the pro-democracy activists who led the uprising say repressive policies [...]

by Tawfik Hamid – Gatestone Institute – Al-Azhar, the most respected Islamic university and organization in the Sunni world, is not – by their own definition – a terrorist [...]