Selected Opinion

By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP A “man-made miracle” is how Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of one of Egypt’s last remaining independent press outlets, Mada Masr, described her release to me [...]

By Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – “Everyone is equal before the law regardless of his language, race, sex, color, political opinion, philosophy, religious belief, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – On November 15, 2019, two of the foremost representatives of Christianity and Islam, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al Azhar—the [...]

By Michael Igoe – Devex WASHINGTON — In mid-September 2018, a Hungarian official named Tristan Azbej traveled to Washington, D.C. for a series of meetings and events he hoped would draw the [...]

By Dioscorus Boles – JOURNAL OF COPTIC CULTURE & POLITICS – Following the arrest of Ramy Kamil, the Coptic human rights activist on 23rd November 2019 by Egypt’s notorious [...]

By Sam Selsky, Senior Program Associate – Freedom House The current legal system punishes independent advocacy and perpetuates chronic abuses. In October 2011, thousands of Coptic [...]

By Peter Henne – Religion News Service As the Iowa caucuses approach, the Democratic presidential field continues to churn. Candidates try to clarify their stances on a variety of issues, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – One of the most refreshing aspects of Resolution 296—which acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, and which the House recently voted overwhelmingly for—is that it also [...]

By Lord David Alton – Decision Freedom of religion and freedom of conscience are the keystones of human rights and provide the foundations for truly free societies. In a world in which 250 [...]

By Noha Elhennawy – AP  CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father’s death last year, Huda [...]