Selected Opinion

By Yaroslav Trofimov – The Wall Street Journal – Despised by some, admired by others, the U.S. has been the Middle East’s principal power for decades, providing its allies with [...]

By Mada Masr – The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed power following Mubarak’s downfall on February 2011. SCAF was supposed to oversee a peaceful transition of authority, [...]

By Bernard-Henri Lévy- The Wall Street Journal – On a mountainside in Iraq’s Kurdish region, at the end of a road that winds through sparse olive trees, stands the fourth-century Mar Mattai [...]

By Karima Kamal – Egypt Independent – Edited/abridged translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm But the more important question is why do newspapers ignore incidents of sectarian strife? This [...]

By John Hannah – Foreign Policy – If not properly managed, these events could eventually coalesce into a perfect storm that significantly increases the risk of instability within the [...]

By Hussein Ibish – The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington – They have therefore reacted strongly to Russia’s escalation in Syria and are among the harshest critics of Moscow’s [...]

By Arthur Herlin – Aleteia – Heading for Ma’loula. We are only a few kilometers now from the sacred city. At the edge of the motorway, huge makeshift military bases have sprung out of [...]

By Richard Cohen – The Washington Post – In the desperate fight against the Islamic State, the Pentagon has it all wrong. It has been using color coding to designate the eligibility [...]

By Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate – The violence and instability of North Africa is now spreading into Sub-Saharan Africa, with the Sahel – one of the world’s poorest and most [...]

By Bret Stephens – The Wall Street Journal – Barack Obama told the U.N.’s General Assembly on Monday he’s concerned that “dangerous currents risk pulling us back into a darker, more [...]