Selected Opinion

By Lina Attalah – The New York Times – As we were winding up the day on May 24 at the office of Mada Masr, the news website where I work, we started to notice something strange. Our site [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram – Condolences to the families of the terrorist attack victims in Minya, and the entire Egyptian people, are necessary. But this time our sympathies, no [...]

U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement today on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s enactment of legislation that imposes strict [...]

By Maged Atiya – Samuel Tadros, a chronicler of modern Egypt and its Copts, opens his new op-ed for the New York Times with a passionate and moody warning from a friend:  “At this rate [...]

By Samuel Tadros – The New York Times – “At this rate Copts will be extinct in 100 years. They will die, leave, convert or get killed,” a friend wrote on Facebook as news broke of the [...]

By Lela Gilbert – FoxNews – The first thing I read on Friday morning was that 28 Egyptians in the Sinai had been murdered by terrorists, with more than 20 others wounded. And my first thought was [...]

By Eric Trager – Foreign Policy – When news broke of Friday’s devastating attack on Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt, in which at least 28 were murdered and 23 injured aboard a [...]

By Newt Gingrich – Washington Post – This newspaper’s legendary former publisher, Philip Graham, famously described journalism as the business of writing the “first rough draft of history.” [...]

By Mona Eltahawy – The New York Times – Just over a week after Dina Ali Lasloom, a 24-year-old Saudi Arabian, was dragged onto a plane from Manila to Riyadh with her mouth taped shut [...]

The Washington Post – By Alberto Fernandez –  Alberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, served as the State Department’s coordinator for the [...]