Selected Opinion

By Amnesty International – The Zeinhom Criminal Court’s decision to freeze the personal and organizational bank accounts of a group of leading and award-winning human rights lawyers and [...]

By Matt Hadro – Catholic.org (via AINA) – “Together, we will advocate for the Christian, Yazidi, and other communities in Northern Iraq that they may return to their homes on the [...]

By Nash Naam -Effingham Daily News – The magnificent Rio Olympic games ended last week. Some of the shiniest moments seen during the games were evident in the American delegation. The [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – There’s nothing like knowing Arabic—that is, being privy to the Muslim world’s internal conversations on a daily basis—to disabuse oneself of [...]

By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Given the discrimination, oppression and severe humiliation Christians in Egypt have to sustain if they so much as think of building or renovating a church, it is [...]

By Prince Hassan of Jordan and Ed Kessler – The Telegraph – Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for 2,000 years. Far from being a western import as [...]

By Michael Wahid Hanna and Daniel Benaimuag – In November 2015, a cartoon in Al-Ahram, an Egyptian state-owned newspaper, depicted an Islamic State ogre with “Made in America” emblazoned on [...]

By Wael Eskandar – It didn’t take long for the regime to crack down on Islamist and secular opposition after the military takeover on 3 July 2013. Anyone speaking out against regime [...]

By Saba E. Demian, M.D. – In the long history of this civilization, the Egyptian civilization, there has not been a parallel to this period in which the soul of Egypt is in the balance. [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani International – I have never been hasty in writing down my opinion; quite the contrary, I have always been used to take my time to study situations and [...]