Selected Opinion

By Gamal Essam El-Din -Ahram Online – This is an incredible report. The Egyptian Parliament says to the British Parliament that their report on Islam is totally wrong. They even say that [...]

Mohamed Ali Ibrahim – Egypt Independent – The figures announced by the Baseera Center for Public Opinion Research on the popularity of the president are unfit to serve as a true measure of [...]

By Giulio Meotti
- Gatestone Institute – “The proportions of [Islamic State] administrators but also of suicide fighters increase with education,” according to a World Bank [...]

By The Clarion Project – Donald Trump will work to pass legislation designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, said Walid Phares, a foreign policy advisor for the [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive  for Coptic Solidarity – Much of Al Azhar University’s curriculum is based on Islam’s ancillary books, written in the medieval era or earlier. These books are [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – With the House of Representatives well into its second round, new laws are the conversation pieces in Egyptian gatherings. Major among new legislation has been [...]

By Hilal Khashan – The Hill – Prince Mohammed met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley last June. Three months earlier, Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah [...]

By Clifford Smith – The American Spectator – The next U.S. president will have a difficult job in the Middle East. The Obama administration’s failure to appreciate the long-term [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – It is all too easy today to look at the Middle East and throw up one’s hands in deep despair, at the constant drumbeat of sectarian conflict, restless and [...]

By Congressman Brad Sherman – Dear Friend, As a member of the Congressional Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East, and the International Religious Freedom Caucus, I have been [...]