Selected Opinion

By Samuel Helfont and Michael Brill – Foreign Affairs – One increasingly popular argument places the blame on the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As blogger Kyle W. [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Monday, 11 January. Given the tight deadline and difficulty of reversing the [...]

By H. A. Hellyer and Dr. Nathan J. Brown – Many more Muslims follow institutions like Egypt’s al-Azhar than follow the Islamic State. But the search for an authority to counteract the [...]

By H.A. Hellyer – The Atlantic – In his recent Atlantic piece on “What to Do About ISIS,” Jonathan Powell, a former senior British diplomat, posits that eventually, the West would [...]

By James F. Jeffrey – Foreign Affairs – The threat of the Islamic State (also called ISIS) [2] is only one of those currents, but it is certainly the most immediately threatening, a [...]

By Abraham H. Miller – The Washington Times – When the Muslim Brotherhood was brought to power in Egypt, with the assistance of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary [...]

By David P. Goldman – Middle East Forum – Excerpt of article originally published under the title “Saudi Arabia Stews in Policy Hell.” Last week’s mass executions in [...]

By Elisa Epstein and Jake Greene – TIMEP – Amid attacks around the world claimed by the Islamic State or its affiliates, international media plays an important role in reporting on [...]

By Peter Wehner – The New York Times – It was through this story of divine enfleshment that much of our humanistic tradition was born. For most Christians, the incarnation — the [...]

By H.H. Pope Tawadros II. – Read full message:   http://www.popetawadros.org/nativity/2016/english.pdf