Selected Opinion

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute –  Yazidis, Alevis and women in the region are also being abused by Turkish authorities, and dozens of Kurdish journalists who have publicized this [...]

Youssef Sidhom – Watani – In its 20 August issue, Watani carried the headline “In Minya: 15 closed churches and 70 villages without churches”. The headline of the following issue of [...]

By Cynthia Farahat – Middle East Forum – Al-Azhar University, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic educational institution, is where many of the world’s most brutal [...]

By Sameh Sabri – Ahram Canada– We are disappointed because you appointed an extremist man of dark ideas, Dr. Mohammad Othman el-Khosht, a president of Cairo University, and you [...]

By Maged Atiya – Subway systems in most major cities have information Kiosks to guide the lost or confused travelers to their desired destinations. Egypt does things differently, as [...]

By Aya Hijazi – The Washington Post – Aya Hijazi is an Egyptian American social activist. She was imprisoned in Egypt and acquitted after nearly three years in detention. If you asked [...]

By Minya Diocese – Security refuses to open a church shut down in Kedwan in deference to sentiments of extremists! This is to comment on what has been published on social media concerning [...]

By Clifford Smith – The Washington Examiner –  Politically, it is difficult to have an honest discussion about the difference between Islam, a religion with many interpretations, and [...]

By Lela Gilbert – Newsmax (via AINA) – What a stunning, intriguing travel destination Turkey used to be. And once upon a time, it was a uniquely safe and secular state remarkably free [...]

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali – The Wall Street Journal – There’s no ‘extreme vetting,’ no outreach to moderates, and too much coziness with Riyadh. Candidate Donald Trump vowed to take a fresh [...]