Selected Opinion

By Sohrab Ahmari – The Wall Street Journal – Thursday marks a bitter anniversary in the Arab world. On Dec. 17, 2010, a Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on [...]

By Joyce Karam – Al-Arabiya – For Daniel, one of the new comers to Hamatoura that I met last summer, leaving his monastery in Homs was not a choice. “We didn’t want to [...]

By Burak Bekdil- The Gatestone Institute – Republished by Middle East Forum It is the same old Middle East story: The Shiites accuse Sunnis of passionately following sectarian policies; [...]

By Daniel Henninger – The Wall Street Journal – A Christmas party in disguise? Has it come to this? Aghast state legislators got the directive rescinded, but the Christmas killers [...]

By Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm  Endless meetings and discussions were held on satellite channels between those who are in favor of the coalition and those [...]

By Senator Marco Rubio and Dr. Russell Moore – The Washington Post – The birth of Jesus happened, after all, in something of a war zone. A tyrant sought to maintain his power and used [...]

By Sol W. Sanders – World Tribune – The fact is that Christians today face more persecution in more countries than any other religious group. U.S. Christians sources estimate that 180 [...]

By Aaron David Miller – The Wall Street Journal – Here are five major takeaways from the study of the rebels’ ideology and objectives: * Sixty percent of the major Syrian rebel [...]

By Jeremy Moodey- Christian Today – Another recent tradition is the Yuletide ritual of agonising over whether the historic Christian communities in the Middle East are on the verge of [...]

By Youssef Sidhom- Watani – With 65 seats in the House of Representatives, al-Misriyeen al-Ahrar (The Free Egyptians) party is the largest single bloc in Egypt’s parliament. The party [...]