Selected Opinion

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 [...]

By Mindy Belz – Wall Street Journal – Noura Diyha wrestled a phone from her pocket to show me a photo of herself at age 3. She’s wearing a bonnet and riding a tricycle on a grass lawn. Some [...]

By Nicholas Danforth – Foreign Policy Erdogan’s aggressive nationalism is now spilling over Turkey’s borders, grabbing land in Greece and Iraq. In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The following is a book review of ‘Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond,’ by Simon Ross Valentine. A shorter version of the review first appeared [...]

By Lord Alton of Liverpool – Independent Crossbench Member of the House of Lords Draft Remarks: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Presentation October 19th 2017 The BBC’s courageous chief [...]

By 
Sulome Anderson – Foreign Policy ISIS brutalizes women in the name of Islam — and it still has thousands of female slaves in its grasp A handcuffed man sits on a dirty couch in a small room. [...]

By Mina Ibrahim – Daily News Egypt – The story of 28 Christians who were killed under the tanks or by the bullets of the Egyptian military the night of 9 October 2011 has already been told. [...]

By David Clay Large – Foreign Policy –  In the West, the Nazi Führer is thought of as a genocidal maniac — everywhere else, he’s considered a political inspiration. If Philippine President [...]

By Sally Toma – Mada Masr I first met Mina Danial in Tahrir Square, following the bloody events of the Battle of the Camel. I believed in him from our first encounter. I had a lot of hopes, and [...]