Selected Opinion

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – Francis is arguably the dominant figure, despite the old crack about how many army divisions the pope has, and the potency of a rising China. [...]

Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians that have been held at a detention center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be deported in the coming weeks. Some have already [...]

By James Cuno – The Wall Street Journal – Late last month in Palmyra, Syria, Islamic State killers beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, an 83-year-old Syrian archaeologist who had reportedly [...]

By Basil el-Dabh – TIMEP – In August, Egypt passed a new counterterrorism law, the most recent influential piece of legislation passed by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in the absence [...]

By Salman Moussa – In the “The House of Asterion,” the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges rewrote the myth of the Minotaur from the point of view of the monster. But Egypt today is that [...]

By Middle East Briefing – He might have had Russia in his mind. But even though, we have learned the hard way that fighting the Russians never stops there. Furthermore, Zawahiri, in the [...]

By Neil Patrick  – To its north, Saudi Arabia has conducted airstrikes in Iraq against targets from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and is associated with disaffected Sunni [...]

By Al-Monitor – Media outlets are broadcasting the departure of hundreds of thousands of Syrians and Iraqis from their countries toward Europe by boat, train or on foot. The scenes [...]

By Middle East Briefing – Furthermore, the eyes of the world are focused on the elections as a way to gauge the extent to which Egypt progressed towards a normalized political life, [...]

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. – Project Syndicate – The Islamic State has captured the world’s attention with gruesome videos of beheadings, wanton destruction of antiquities, and skilled use [...]