Selected Opinion

By Thomas Farr – The Hill – As a candidate, Donald Trump said very little publicly about rising threats to religious freedom abroad. But recent reports suggest that President Trump [...]

By Luma Simms – The Federalist (via AINA) – The time since President Trump’s executive order temporarily halting some Middle Eastern immigration has been distressing for me as [...]

By Abdelaziz Al-Sharafy – Al-Watan American historian and analyst Daniel Pipes said he expects that the bill put forward by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a [...]

Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Last August the House of Representatives passed the Law for Building and Restoring Churches. The law regulates, as its name suggests, the process of [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – “Unfortunately, the West has rejected the idea of solidarity with the Christians of the Middle East, prioritizing diplomacy based on oil [...]

By Crux – Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil wonders why all of these protesters were not protesting in the streets when ISIS came to kill Christians and Yazidis and other minority groups. He [...]

An open letter By: Lofty Basta, MD – My dears, I have to be frank with you. The massacre of 25 Copts and injuring of more than 60 worshipers in the Chapel near the Patriarchate of Egypt IS [...]

Mimi Geerges interviews Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute, and Oren Kessler, Foundation of Defense of Democracies.

By MEMRI – Egyptian intellectual Dr. Khaled Montaser said that while extremism was once considered to be the outcome of poverty or of one’s environment, this does not explain [...]

By Eric Trager – Foreign Affairs –   Six years ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians descended on downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding “bread, freedom, and social justice.” [...]