Selected Opinion

By Yaroslav Trofimov – Wall Street Journal – A key reason for his honeymoon is the extraordinary vagueness of his comments about the Middle East. It is hard to find a Middle Eastern [...]

By Judith Miller – City Journal – In his brief, blunt, and protectionist inaugural speech, President Donald J. Trump declared war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” using a [...]

Despite attacks on civil society and NGOs in Egypt over the past two years or more which have been documented in several reports by journalists reporting from Egypt, in his interview (open link [...]

By Elissa Miller, Emily Burchfield – Atlantic Council – On January 11, President Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, participated in a marathon nine-hour [...]

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By Maged Atiya – Times are good for most American Copts, and beyond just the material comforts. Half a century after the first trickle of immigration there is now a desire to develop a [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – I begin the 2017 series of ‘Problems on hold’ with an issue I have repeatedly broached and vowed ever to staunchly defend. By this I mean the issue of equal [...]

By MEMRI – In an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf wrote about the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act recently passed by the U.S. administration. [...]

By Henry Srebrnik – The Chronicle Herald – Canada – On Dec. 11, a bomb ripped through the chapel in the St. Mark’s Cathedral complex, the seat of Egypt’s ancient Coptic Orthodox [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Muslim attacks on Christian churches are on the rise all around the world—including in America. The worst occurred last month when a bomb exploded in Egypt’s St. [...]