Selected Opinion

By Timothy Kaldas – TIMEP – In practice, however, societies are complex bodies with an array of competing interests, and the interests of those in power regularly differ from those of [...]

By Jameson Brower – Aleteia – Each day brings fresh headlines about the war in the Middle East—on the forces in Syria and Iraq, refugees the world over and the tense politics woven [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Given that the parties are admittedly Islamic-based, fears and speculations abound that the non-constitutional situation threatens to halt the elections [...]

By Henry A. Kissinger – The Wall Street Journal – The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s [...]

By Al-Masry – Al Youm – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm But the question here is: why is there such apathy toward the elections? I attribute it to measures that were taken in [...]

By Eric Trager – The Washington Institute –  Egypt’s parliamentary elections, the first round of which begins this weekend, will almost surely consolidate the country’s [...]

By MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) –  In the years after the 9/11 attacks, the teachings of 14th century Islamic jurist Ibn Taymiyyah have been propagated by jihadi [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday, 13 October. The current Constitution is neither perfect, nor the best in [...]

By Dina Ezzat – Ahram Online – In the coming two days, Mina Fhami and Raguei Fouad will be doing their final rallying tours ahead of the first-phase of voting in parliamentary [...]

By Jacob Olidort – The Washington Institute – On October 17, Egyptians will vote in the first round of the parliamentary election cycle since Mohamed Morsi’s 2013 ouster. Of the [...]