Selected Opinion

By Jayson Casper – Among the many battlegrounds between liberal and conservative visions for Egypt is the blasphemy law, with Islam al-Beheiry and Fatima Naoot its latest victims.  [...]

By Khurram Dara – Wall Street Journal – It is gut-wrenching that a 15-year-old boy, who raised his hand at evening prayers after the local imam asked who among them did not love the [...]

By David Ignatius – Washington Post – Obama’s embrace of the Tahrir Square protesters’ demand for Mubarak’s immediate departure was idealistic, popular and understandable at the time. [...]

By Hakim Khatib – Confused to say luckily or sadly, this sentence against Al-Buhairi was softened from five years to one year. Al-Buhairi’s lawyer Jamil Saad told AFP: “Islam Al-Buhairi [...]

By Michael Wahid Hanna – The Century Foundation – The run-up to January 25 has seen a major crackdown that has included arrests, disappearances, random searches (including random [...]

By Nathan J. Brown and Yasser el-Shimy – Council on Foreign Relations – Five years ago, the leaders of Egypt’s protest movement shocked themselves by successfully bringing down [...]

Jonathan Spyer – Middle East Forum – The bad news? Our single-minded focus on ISIS as if it were the main or sole source of regional dysfunction is the result of faulty analysis, [...]

By Asra Q. Nomani – The Wall Street Journal – This past New Year’s Eve, hordes of men from North Africa and the Middle East, many of them Muslim refugees and migrants, set off like [...]

By Eric Trager – Foreign Policy –  Monday marks the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 25, 2011, protests that sparked Egypt’s Arab Spring uprising, and the Egyptian government is on edge. [...]

By Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times – What if we’re at the end of the 30-plus-year era of high growth in China, and therefore China’s ability to fuel global growth through its [...]