Selected Opinion

By Johannes Makar – Foreign Policy – Once seen by the country’s Christians as a savior, Egypt’s new strongman has proven little better than his predecessors. When the Muslim [...]

By Paul Keenan – The Irish Catholic – The latest in a litany of ongoing attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt took place towards the end of last month in al Nagameesh, the evidence [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMERI We live in a deeply politicized and polarized world. This is a place where saying that “all lives matter” is seemingly politically incorrect. It [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani I have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent was last week’s; it tackled the open question of [...]

By Dr. Tawfik Hamid – After so many Islamic terror attacks against innocents it is common to see Islamic apologists jumping to offer some justification for such attacks by raising the issue [...]

By Steven A. Cook – Foreign Affairs – In a half-decade of extraordinary moments in the Middle East, /images of citizens swarming tanks and other military vehicles have been among the [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the [...]

By Sahar Nasr – Wall Street Journal – Unlocking the country’s potential through private-sector-led growth free of the heavy hand of the state. *** Earlier this month, Egypt announced a [...]

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Al-Ahram – It’s perfectly normal for a law to be drafted and tabled by parliamentarians—the constitution states that bills can be submitted to the House by the government [...]

By Kenneth M. Pollack – Foreign Affairs – The modern Middle East has rarely been tranquil, but it has never been this bad. Full-blown civil wars rage in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. [...]