Selected Opinion

By Katie Bentivoglio – Washington Post – Such /images capture the futility of much authoritarian politics. They demonstrate how manipulative such regimes can be and how much they can [...]

By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post – Elsewhere, it’s much worse. Twenty-one Copts were beheaded  by the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for the crime of being Christian. In [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin- Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday, 28 July. Official and media circles are increasingly supportive of the idea that [...]

By Frida Ghitis- World Politics Review – Last Friday, the exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, traveled to Saudi Arabia from his home in Qatar, ending several years of deep chill in the [...]

By Josh Rogin – Bloomberg Opinion – This confusion is a microcosm of the disorganized U.S. approach to the Islamic State threat since last summer. Each incremental escalation into [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Instead of executing Asia Bibi and further advertising to the international community that theirs is a savage and backwards nation — and instead of releasing her and [...]

The New  York Times – Review of two books:  ‘ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,’ by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, and ‘ISIS: The State of Terror,’ by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger. The [...]

By Robin Simcox – The Daily Beast – Enemies becoming friends is seemingly all the rage these days. First Cuba. Then Iran. Now, there are those arguing that al Qaeda must also be [...]

By Thomas L. Friedman – By The New York Times – From the minute Iran detected that the U.S. was unwilling to use its overwhelming military force to curtail Tehran’s nuclear program — [...]

By Eric Trager – The Washington Institute – The past two years have been the most violent and repressive in Egypt’s contemporary history. Ever since the country’s military responded [...]