Selected Opinion

By Elissa Miller – Atlantic Council –  Internet censorship around the world, including in the Middle East, is not a new phenomenon. Freedom of expression facilitated by the internet [...]

Below you can read the presentation given by Ms. Raheel Raza  during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2018. Good afternoon and thanks to the [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – When the long-awaited Law for the Building and Restoration of Churches went into effect on 28 September 2016, it stipulated that non-licensed churches [...]

Below you can watch the panel discussion titled Forms of Minority Persecution and Marginalization, hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on June 22, [...]

Below you can watch the panel discussion titled Our Responsibility Towards our Family in Egypt: Engaging Young Copts in the Diaspora, hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference [...]

By Amy Austin Holmes – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy As the next deadline for FMF disbursement approaches, the administration should remember that U.S. law requires it to [...]

By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institiute – The UN recommended 1,358 Syrian refugees for resettlement in Britain during the first quarter of 2018, of whom only four were [...]

By Marc Español – Directa –  Era jornada de proves al camp de futbol del club egipci Petrojet, establert a la ciutat portuària de Suez. Mina Samir, un jove de 17 anys, evoca [...]

By Khaled Mansour – Open Global Rights Between 2014 and early 2018, the Egyptian government cracked down with unprecedented fury on civil society organizations (CSOs). Previous [...]

By Brian Dooley – The Hill –  Last August, the State Department withheld $195 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) from Egypt. Rex Tillerson, then [...]