Selected Opinion

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 [...]

By Peter Ahern – AINA – Consider another imaginary scenario. Some 5000 American women and girls are kidnapped by the same Muslim jihadi militia. They are turned into sex slaves, [...]

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – MEF – The market for extremism has been so disrupted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and its penchant [...]

By Selwyn Duke – The New American – Perpetrated by Islamic State (IS) jihadists, the above crime occurred near Aleppo, Syria, just last month. But it’s a scene that has been replayed [...]

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – For the secretive oil kingdom, whose internal debates are usually opaque to outsiders, the recent strife has been unusually open. The tension [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Many are accepting death. Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 [...]

By Rev. Johnnie Moore – FOX News – A few days ago ISIS executed three Assyrian Christians, and I bet you haven’t heard a thing about it. This is because the world is becoming [...]

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 [...]