Selected Opinion

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 [...]

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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 [...]

By Kathryn Jean Lopez – NRO (via AINA) – There’s a “memoricide” happening in the Middle East, as the presence of Christians there diminishes to the point of [...]

By Jadaliyya –   On the morning of Sunday 25 September 2016, a gunman shot Jordanian writer and opposition figure Nahed Hattar outside of the Jordanian Palace of Justice. At the [...]