Selected Opinion

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.” [...]

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 [...]