Selected Opinion

By Hassan Hassan- The Guardian – The United Nations’ sanctions monitoring team warned last Tuesday that Libya wasemerging as a key stronghold for Islamic State close to the shorelines of [...]

By Gerald F. Seib – The Wall Street Journal – President Barack Obama clearly intended his Sunday night address from the Oval Office to pull the nation together behind his strategy for [...]

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – At the center of President Obama’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It’s supposed be filled by a hypothetical [...]

By Daniel Williams – The Washington Post – Of course, the Texas senator’s suggestion that Christians should be accepted into the United States as refugees, in exclusive preference [...]

By Mohamed Nour Farahat – Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm We all support the state. Nobody supports the non-state. Nobody wants Egypt to become like it [...]

By Jacob Olidort – Foreign Affairs – In the wake of the bombing of the Russian plane in Sinai and the attacks in Paris, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) seems [...]

By Roger Cohen – The New York Times – The family of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks, lived on Future Street in Brussels. Theirs was a “spacious if shabby [...]

By The Rubin Center – The Islamic State (IS) is a murderous enterprise, based on an insane ideology.  It nevertheless desires its own survival and expansion. In October 2015, prior to the [...]

By Ahmed Fouad – Al-Monitor – Perhaps the term “marginalized groups” does not apply to women and Copts on economic and social levels, but it has been engrained for decades in the [...]

By Richard Butrick – American Thinker – Republished by Raymond Ibrahim There is a reason for that. In a recent article by Raymond Ibrahim in the Middle East Forum, Ibrahim, a renowned [...]