Selected Opinion

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 [...]

By MEMRI – The Patriarch is a strong supporter of Christian-Muslim dialogue – he was one of the dignitaries who walked out on a speech by Senator Ted Cruz when the latter insisted that [...]

By al -Monitor – Becoming a member of parliament as the first Coptic woman to win an individual seat representing a district known for its tribalism and intolerance was a difficult feat. [...]

By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs – World Tribune – There were profound reasons for this “flight to safety” by Daesh, in seeking a new haven as pressures [...]

By Eric Trager and Marina Shalabi – Foreign Affairs –  Following the July 2013 ouster of Egypt’s first elected president, Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, Ezzat’s legend within the [...]