Selected Opinion

By Kenneth M. Pollack – Brookings Institution –  For the United States, securing its interests in the midst of the region’s interlocking and overflowing conflicts has never been more [...]

By Daniel Bassali – Washington Free Beacon –  Copts have long been the target of discrimination and persecution in the majority-Arab nation. But this ancient people faced a terrifying [...]

By Aaron David Miller – Foreign Policy – It came by way of a little-focused on comment made during his July 15 press conference defending the Iran deal, after Obama was asked what [...]

By Magdi Khalil – President, Middle East Freedom Forum Women were also victims of Berhamy’s hate speech, as the extremely prejudiced spiritual leader, who obviously perceives women to be [...]

By Burak Bekdil – Middle East Forum –  After several months of reluctant negotiations, Turkey has anxiously decided to join the allied battle against the radical Islamists who fight [...]

By MEMRI –  Articles stated that Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Qatar under Sheikh Tamim Aal Thani, support the extremist terrorist organizations in the region and fund [...]

By Daniel Konstantinovic –  Aid to the Church in Need – Via AINA Discovering that Kurdish militia had fled the ISIS assault, the sisters decided to leave their convent in Qaraqosh and [...]

By The American Interest – ISIS demands nothing less than the conversion of all Christians and Yizidis to Islam under penalty of death for men and enslavement for women and children. [...]

By Nick Danforth – Foreign Policy – It seems that no one, including perhaps the government in Ankara, is entirely clear on what Turkey’s endgame in Syria is. Recent reports that the [...]

By Ahram Online – The Muslim Brotherhood has always tried to promulgate three illusions about its history and ideology. The first is that it is a “moderate” group that represents and [...]