Selected Opinion

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 [...]

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 [...]