Selected Opinion

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 [...]

By Mina Fayek , Open Democracy –  Last week, an Egyptian court ordered the release of all defendants accused of assaulting a Coptic woman in the southern city of Minya. Rumors had spread of [...]

Egypt: Before strife becomes sectarianism By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, Ahram Online July 26, 2016 Numerous, respected voices have been raised demanding enforcement of the law and justice in the most [...]

By Eric Trager –  Wall Street Journal – Even when elected, Islamists foment instability. In June 2012, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi narrowly won Egypt’s first fair and [...]