Selected Opinion

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 [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday, 29 September. But questions remain that temper this joy with the [...]

By Adam Coogle, Deputy Director MENA Division – Human Rights Watch – Among the “crimes” for which al-Nimr was convicted were “breaking allegiance with the [...]

By Fareed Zakaria – The Washington Post – Whom is the United States for in this struggle? We know whom it is against — the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Also, the Islamic [...]

By Chloe Valdary- The Wall Street Journal – In 1975, as desperate Vietnamese sought to escape Communist rule, the U.S. embarked on what remains one of the greatest humanitarian rescue [...]