By Peggy Noonan – WSJ- This being Holy Week and Passover, a small reflection on Scripture. There are stories and moments in the Old and New Testaments that grab hold of us, some from the [...]
by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution on March 28, officially recognizing March 23 as “Pakistan Day.” The resolution, [...]
by Lawrence A. Franklin – Gatestone – [Ahmed] Al-Sharaa, on taking power in Syria in December, originally professed to be a “moderate.” The Biden administration even lifted a $10 [...]
By Jules Gomes – MEF – Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham Militants and Terrorists Have Been Targeting Alawis, Christians, and Other Minorities Across Syria When Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmad [...]
Fawaz A. Gerges – Foreign Affairs – Why Islamist Rebels Are Unlikely to Become Democratic Rulers After half a century of tyranny, the Assad family’s rule over Syria has come to an end. [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Today, Turkey’s Christians (Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians) comprise only around 0.1% of the population despite being indigenous peoples of the land. A significant reason [...]
By Ishak Ibrahim – Manassa (*) – While the United Nations celebrates the International Day of Education on January 24th, emphasizing the need to provide equal access to quality education [...]
By Steven Stalinsky As Jihadi Persecution Of African Christians Continues – From Torching Churches And Terrorizing Villagers To Beheading And Murdering Nuns And Priests – Not A Peep Is Heard From [...]
By Theo Padnos – Persuasion – A personal essay on regime change in Syria, by an American Journalist who was covering Syria an Turkey affairs for a number of US and UK publication. In the [...]
By Milton Quintanilla (via AINA) – Christians in Syria face uncertainty about their rights and freedoms after Islamist rebel forces conquered Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus. Hay’at Tahrir [...]
By Charles Jacobs, Uzay Bulut – JNS – The life and suffering of the Coptic minority in Egypt is a due to the Islamic invasion, dominance and ongoing persecution that occurs under Islamic rule. In [...]
By Michael Wahid Hanna – Foreign Affairs – When War Broke Out in Gaza, Biden Reconciled With Sisi—but Trump’s Calculus Might Differ. In May, after an Israeli military offensive prompted a [...]
by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The capture of Aleppo by Turkey-backed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces is terrifying news for Kurds, Yazidis, Christians and everyone else whom jihadists [...]
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by extremist Muslims throughout the month of October 2024. Burkina Faso: On Sunday, October 6, Muslim terrorists launched a [...]
By Mariam Wahba – The Washington Examiner – Julia Atef, 21, never made it to church on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 26. No one has heard from her since she left her family’s [...]
By Uzay Bulut– Gatestone Institute – According to reports, since 2009, Muslims, inspired by Boko Haram, have murdered more than 150,000 Christians in Nigeria. Chad, Libya, Sudan, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – If Fake News is a “threat to democracy,” what about Fake History? Although more subtle — Fake History is certainly more difficult to [...]
By Jonathan Spyer – WSJ – Fawzia Sido’s decadelong captivity illustrates the connections between ISIS, Hamas and other jihadists. I got an unexpected message from a longtime friend and [...]
by Walid Tamtam- BWO- Discrimination of Copts in Egyptian sport damages human rights, religious liberty, and the country’s results in international sport events as well. Copts are the indigenous [...]
By Joe Lipuma – AINA – August marked the 10th anniversary of the ISIS genocide perpetrated on the Christians, and other minority communities, of Northern Iraq. For the Christians there, [...]
By Ashraf Helmy – The Christian minority in Sudan has continued to suffer systematic violations over the past years, whether at the hands of the ruling Islamic regimes or terrorist [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – PJ Media – On Aug. 6, the Christians of Iraq commemorated the tenth anniversary of “The Black Day” — when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) invaded [...]
By Ramsen Shamon – Newsweek (via AINA) – My relatives fled Mosul to save their lives before ISIS invaded and seized power in the summer of 2014. The invasion of Iraq’s second [...]
by Daniel Pipes – Washington Times – (*) As everyone knows, the growth of a Muslim population in the United States, roughly three-quarters immigrant and one-quarter convert, has led to an [...]
By Uzay Bulut – The process of the Islamization and Arabization of Egypt started when Arab Muslims invaded in the 7th century On the evening of April 23, a large number of Egyptian [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – There’s a global pandemic right now, but you won’t read about it in our media. It’s claiming thousands of lives, in a dozen countries. I’m talking [...]
By Mohaned Elnour (via TIMEP) – Sudan’s Christian community has been consistently targeted by both the RSF and SAF since the beginning of the Sudan war, in acts that can be considered war [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – An old drama highlighting the ongoing but wholly unacknowledged Muslim persecution of Christians is once again playing out in one of its primary theaters: [...]
By Tasos Kokkinidis – The Greek Reporter (via AINA) – The Armenian Genocide, the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and [...]
By Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – The worst humanitarian crisis in the world today is in Sudan, not in Gaza or Ukraine. The ordinary Westerner might be confused given the obsessive coverage [...]
By Suzanne Maloney – Foreign Affairs – How the Islamic Republic Is Remaking the Middle East. The Israel-Hamas war—and the possibility that it may explode into a wider conflagration—has upended [...]
By Matt Schierer – MEMRI- “Blessed are those whoare those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 5:10 Today, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2024 — which, among other things, brings awareness to violence against women — a [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Egypt’s military has always sought political power. The military coup of 1952 was the cornerstone of a long line of military leaders. All subsequent coups took place [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – Turkic genocidal bloodlust against its ancient victim, Armenia, is on the verge of flaring out again, though the world fails to see. On Feb. 13, [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Middle East Forum – On February 13, 2024, less than a month after both Turkey and Azerbaijan threatened Armenia with renewed war, Azerbaijan killed four Armenian [...]
By Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez* – According to Iranian sources, after the killing of three American soldiers by an Iranian-controlled militia drone on January 28, the Biden Administration [...]
By Amir Taheri – The Gatestone Institute – If you thought you knew all you need to know about the war in Gaza, think again. Much depends on where and how you get your news from. Last [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “Every two hours [in Nigeria], a Christian is killed for their faith.” — Open Doors, April 22, 2022. [T]he Associated Press [...]
By Aleteia – The very first days of January are filled with the echoes of New Year’s bells – and resolutions. To help us take these fresh beginnings to fruition, contemplate the [...]
By Mark Basta – Berkeley Political Review – On July 18, world news spread as an Egyptian Court sentenced Coptic Egyptian human rights advocate, Patrick Zaki, to three years of prison [...]
By Knox Thames – RNS — Human rights advocates are experiencing a painful purgatory of in-betweenness. The Advent season reminds Christians of the time between a promise and its realization. [...]
by Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute – The world’s “strategic eyes” should have looked closer at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – The more than 1,400 Israelis who were brutally slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, got what they deserve—according to the most prestigious [...]
By Ed Husain – The Wall Street Journal – Islamism, incubated in the 1920s, belittles Islam’s sacred text for barbaric ends. Hamas isn’t only a terrorist group, and it isn’t a [...]
By MEMRI – A few days ago, Qatari Ambassador to Washington Meshal Aal Thani, the brother of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani, published an article in the Wall Street [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan engaged in a bit of wild projection over the weekend. According to one report, Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party staged a massive [...]
By Randel Everett – 21Wilberforce – Freedom of religion is both America’s first freedom and a universal human right. Yet many people around the world live in countries where this [...]
By Al-Monitor – On the centennial of the Turkish Republic, its citizens are debating the country’s evolution and how it measures up to the vision of modern Turkey’s deeply [...]
By Lisa Anderson (*) – Foreign Affairs – As Israel readies for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, much attention has shifted to how Egypt will respond in the coming days and weeks. [...]
by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – After besieging and starving 120,000 Armenians of the South Caucasus Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) since December 2022, Azerbaijan launched a [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – The Islamic scimitar is rattling with Christian blood again. In late 2020, war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Two months later, peace was achieved [...]
by Knox Thames – The Hill – The torching of churches in Pakistan has brought to global attention the dire state for religious minorities in that troubled country. Matters related to [...]
By the Editorial Board – The Washington Post – On Saturday, Egypt’s authoritarian president pardoned Ahmed Douma, a blogger and protest leader who was one of the best-known faces of [...]
By Ben Sixsmith – The Critic-UK – Our leaders should take a firm stance on anti-Christian violence Life is difficult as a Pakistani Christian. Technically, one has freedom of [...]
By Steven A. Cook – Foreign Policy – Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the grips of what could be described as “Sisi-mania.” Songs, sandwiches, music videos, [...]
by Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – If logic worked in politics, the question to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should have been: Why has your country so passionately [...]
By Patrick George – Daraj- Following is the article, originally published (in Arabic) in July 2019, that led to the arrest and trial of the author. Not a month goes by without tragedy striking [...]
by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – magine if you are a child from a persecuted religious minority living in one of the world’s most oppressive countries. The country’s [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “[T]here was absolutely no case. There was no proof against Noman, and none of the witnesses produced by police could corroborate the [...]
By Foreign Policy – Waiting for change in Afghanistan is like waiting for Godot. Hatred is stalking the women of Afghanistan, pushing them further into darkness as world leaders appear to be [...]
By Riccardo Fabiani, Michael W. Hanna – Crisis Group – Egypt faces an economic crisis that risks fuelling unrest. The International Monetary Fund demands reforms in return for loans, while [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Resorting to jihadist rhetoric, Esra, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—who just gained another five years as [...]
by Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Atatürkism… tried to reinvent Turkey’s identity as a modern state claiming Hittite and Celtic roots, distancing itself from the [...]
By Sara Khorshid – Foreign Policy – Western leaders and filmmakers have long denied the link between modern Egypt and its ancient heritage. When former U.S. President John F. Kennedy [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – The evidence is overwhelming. “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands…” — Aurora [...]
By Anzhela Mnatsakanyan – greek city times (via AINA) – In both historiography and public memory, the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire is almost solely associated with the Armenian, [...]
By Natasha Dado – The National – The world must act fast to prevent what happened to religious minorities during this period from continuing before it’s too late The 20th [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – As long as man has existed, discrimination of all forms has existed in our cultures – gender, race, disabilities, religion. Legislation usually outlaws this behavior [...]
By Hannah Srour-Zackon – Sherif Meleka’s epic novel Suleiman’s Ring uses the Biblical characters of David and Solomon to explore the persecution and expulsion of Jews from Egypt. [...]
By Dr. Sherif Younes (*) – It is assumed that the return of the child Shenouda to his family, who raised him, is a happy ending to an unfortunate event (assuming that this is a final [...]
By Matija Šerić – Eurasia Review (via AINA) – At the beginning of this year, the Christian international network Open Doors presented data on the oppression, discrimination and persecution [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream- The United Nations has spoken: March 15, is “International Day to Combat Islamophobia.” Why March 15? While there are many ways to debunk the significance of this [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – A little known, though highly controversial, Islamic teaching is back in the news. According to a Feb. 21, 2023 report, Turkey’s highest religious (and [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – [T]he Biden administration’s decision to delist Nigeria from the list of Countries of Particular Concern was [...]
Par Agnès Pinard Legry – Aleteia – Les années passent mais le choc et la violence demeurent. Le 15 février 2015, une vidéo montrant le massacre de 21 chrétiens coptes, vingt Égyptiens et un [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Her “crime” was that her son was accused of being romantically involved with a Muslim woman. Islam assumes the man is superior, [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – Most Assyrians are Christian and speak Assyrian (also known as Syriac, Aramaic, or neo-Aramaic), one of the world’s oldest languages and the [...]
By Philip Kosloski – Aleteia – He lived in solitude in the desert, but he wasn’t alone. St. Anthony the Abbot (251 -356; also called St. Anthony of Egypt or St. Anthony the [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The Egyptian folk saying goes: “Oh God who eases difficulties! The bigger portion has been accomplished … what remains is less”. I am talking about the churches and [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – MEF – Many in the West heard of the severe atrocities the jihadists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) committed against the [...]
By Robert Barron – WSJ – Intimidation doesn’t bring peace and joy. Infants do. There’s something about a baby. If introduced into a crowded room, everyone will want a glimpse. Conversations [...]
By The Wall Street Journal – This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole [...]
By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News- While fans will remember the 22nd World Cup as one of the best final matches in tournament history, the games also will be remembered as the most [...]
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh – WSJ- The country has a rich history of political dissent that has brought it to the edge of revolution. Reports of the demise of Iran’s [...]
By Maithili Pai -ISHR – On Wednesday 7 December, ECOSOC Member States will be asked to vote on the accreditation of 9 NGOs that have been arbitrarily blocked from UN participation, [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – By the time of this writing, we had the names of 385 protesters killed, including 40 women and 32 children, and 7 security men. A further 12,500 [...]
by Anba Angaelos – The Tablet – What is undeniable is the positive and proactive impact of Christian communities in the region. Whenever we hear about the Middle East, and in [...]
By Masih Alinejad – Foreign Affairs – The Beginning of the End of the Islamic Republic? The current protests in Iran sound the death knell of the Islamic Republic. The killing in [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Today’s Damavand [volcano] s made of a new generation of Iranians who don’t give tuppence about the Islamic Republic’s arcane [...]
By Mada Masr – ..Egyptian officials have been holding quiet talks with the Muslim Brotherhood, with various Gulf countries jockeying to exert control over the influential political group. [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – One of the main drivers for the founding of MEMRI 25 years ago was to present voices and narratives in their original languages, translated into [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Armenia awoke on September 13, 2022 to an uncertain future after Azerbaijan attacked it in the dead of night. As Trey Blanton reported on location, [...]
By Dr Themistocles Kritikakos – GreekHerald (via AINA) – 100 years later, the trauma that Greek survivors experienced during the final years of the Ottoman Empire has been passed on to [...]
By Farahnaz Ispahani, Elaine Alam – The Religious Freedom Institute – As the United Nations observed August 22 as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Taking over the Muslim Brotherhood was supposed to complete Erdogan’s victory over the Fethullah Gulen movement, leaving ” the [...]
By Samuel Tadros – ProvidenceMag – On Sunday, August 14, a new tragedy befell Egypt’s Copts, a fire at Saint Marcurius Church in Imbaba has left 41 dead, including 18 children and the [...]
By Thomas Farr- WSJ – By pushing faith to the margins, the U.S. undermines its moral leadership abroad. Americans have never agreed that one religion is true and good, but we’ve [...]
By J.B. Shurk – Gatestone Institute – When presidents and prime ministers make and enforce their own laws under the pretext of “emergency powers,” then citizens should not [...]
By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptians were shocked last month by the brutal stabbing murder of a college student, Naira Ashraf, in front of Mansoura University’s gates. The [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “Muhammad Irfan came to my shop for wheel balancing for his motorbike. I balanced the wheel and demanded my amount of labour as [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Last May 29, 2022 in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey, elaborate celebrations were held to commemorate the 569th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – I have taken it upon myself to never give up on calling for reform of Egyptian legislation so as to achieve equality between men and women in inheritance. [...]
by Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Today the Islamic Republic of Iran is the only standard-bearer of true Muhammadan Islam. (..) Other nations need not convert to Islam to [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – Turkey is now using the distraction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a cover to increase its likelihood of officially annexing [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – Islamism and nationalism in Turkey combine in an even more ambitious form. Where does “the East” begin? The question is as much political as [...]
By Knox Thames – RNS — The power of these summits is in bringing together all stakeholders around advancing religious freedom. Nigerian Christians murdered during worship. China [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim Where is the outcry? When an Australian, Brenton Tarrant, attacked two mosques and killed 51 Muslims in 2019 in New Zealand, the world stood in condemnation; the [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The United Nations recently named March 15 as “international day to combat Islamophobia.” That date was chosen because it witnessed one of the worst terror [...]
By Agnès Callamard and Kenneth Roth – Foreign Affairs – For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Once again, a large governmental body has exposed itself as morally bankrupt if not wholly bereft of legitimacy. On May 18, 2022, the European Parliament, one of [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – On Thursday, a Muslim mob beat and burned to death a female Christian student in Nigeria. She was apparently accused of “blasphemy.” A [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The American Thinker – On April 24, the grand imam of Islam’s most prestigious institution, Al Azhar, delivered an address before the heads of [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Day by day, it seems that the ruling class and their media mouthpiece are dedicated to one principle: find problems where none exist and ignore real problems that are [...]
By Ellis Heasley – SightMag Australia- On 7th April Fr Arsanious Wadid, a Coptic Orthodox priest based in Alexandria, Egypt, was carrying out youth work on a seaside promenade in his home city [...]
By Farah Rafik – Egyptian Streets- It’s 2010: armed men exchange gunfire, rocks and Molotov cocktails are tossed, and deafening silence inhabits our household when my teary-eyed mother says, [...]
By David Isaac – JNS – The West is missing a critical component of the story when it comes to the persecution of Middle East Christians, said Farhad Rezaei, a visiting lecturer [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – It’s official: The United Nations, following the Muslim world’s lead, has formally accepted the concept of “Islamophobia,” a move that will undoubtedly [...]
Marina Samir – Rowaq CIHRS – Abstract : This paper raises questions about the extent to which the demand for a uniform civil personal status law, as advocated by progressive forces in [...]
By Ezzedine C. Fishere – The Washington Post – In February, Egypt’s attorney general decided to investigate the writer and talk show host Ibrahim Eissa over his questioning [...]
By David Isaac – JNS – According to York University’s Farhad Rezaei, what distinguishes Iran when it comes to persecution of Christians is that it is pursuing a “strategy of [...]
By Magdi Abdelhadi – Newsline Magazine – The dilemma facing Egyptians as they look to the past for a new sense of national identity. Pick up any Egyptian banknote, look at both sides [...]
By Yezid Sayigh – Carnegie Middle East Center – For Egypt to deliver on its economic projects, the tentacles of military retirees in the state bureaucracy must be cut. Egyptian President [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Providence – Azerbaijan’s government has announced that it intends to erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) [...]
By Elisabetta Brighi – Open Democracy – In 25 January 2016, Giulio Regeni, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, disappeared while carrying out field work in [...]
By TIMEP – Egypt’s legal framework is an important angle through which to understand the state of religious minorities in the country. This brief delves into some of the primary issues [...]
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes – Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World – by Christian C. Sahner – Princeton: Princeton University Press, [...]
by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promises to launch “a new republic” this year, led by a development boom and a new commitment to [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On November 17, 2021, the U.S. State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern…. despite several [...]
By Mina Thabet – TIMEP – In November 2019, I was able to communicate with my friend Ramy Kamel, a prominent Coptic activist and blogger, for the last time before his arrest [...]
By Dioscorus Boles – On the 6th January 2022, the YouTube channel, Coptic Orthodox Church, published an 8-minute massage by Pope Tawadros II, titled Papal Message, Christmas 2022, [...]
By Dioscorus Boles – Last night, I watched, like millions of Copts from across the world, the Liturgy of Holy Nativity that was broadcast from the Cathedral of the Holy Nativity of Christ [...]
By The Washington Post Editorial Board – Egypt issued its national “human rights strategy” in September to mixed reviews. A hopeful few regarded the measure as a positive [...]
By Laila Soueif – The New York Times – Standing outside the Tora prison complex, where my son is held, a mother asks me: What’s your son in for? “Politics,” I [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – My readers will find a large portion of this article similar to, if not an outright repetition of what I wrote before on the legalisation of unlicensed [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, “An Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the [...]
By Samuel Tadros – Hoover Institute – In his seminal essay, The Sorrows of Egypt, the late Fouad Ajami, noted, in his masterful prose, the numerous sorrows of modern Egypt, from [...]
By CIHRS – The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) asserts that the recent amendments ratified this month by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aim to entrench a permanent state of [...]
By Anne-Christine Hoff – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s [...]
By Daniel Pipes – Washington Times – The Islamist movement, which seeks to apply medieval Islamic laws and build a worldwide caliphate, has expanded massively in the past half-century. But it now [...]
By CIHRS – Analysis of the National Strategy for Human Rights The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released this morning a brief analysis of the National Strategy for Human [...]
By The Washington Post – Editorial Board – During his campaign for the White House, President Biden promised to restore human rights to “the center” of U.S. foreign policy — in [...]
By Miray Philips – When Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), died on September 21, 2021, the Coptic Orthodox Church [...]
By Maged Mandour – Carnegie – Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands, by creating a top-down version of state sponsored [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez* – MEMRI Imagine living a public life involving writing and speaking on sensitive issues and constantly having to look over your shoulder, wondering if you have gone [...]
Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The lack of any sense of time in case of urgency seems to be among the list of idiosyncratic traits vintage to our beloved Egypt. Many were the real life [...]
By Peter Tadros – ACM- It was 9 October 2011, and an unprecedented event had just occurred in Egypt. I recall checking my social media accounts and seeing a sea of blood on my Facebook wall [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “The State Department has blocked us every step of the way. The State Department and the White House have [...]
By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies ـ Respect for human rights in Egypt – where the most fundamental rights to life, bodily integrity, and justice are violated by state institutions and [...]
By Tawfik Hamid – WSJ – The West needs a better system for identifying radical Islamists and cutting out the religious underpinnings of jihad. Twenty years ago, 19 of my fellow Arab [...]
Florian Ripka-ACNRepublished by Aleteia It was 10 years ago, but the pain is still raw. On the night of Friday, January 31, 2011, a terrorist attack killed 21 people and wounded 79 others [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – More importantly, perhaps, it may be naïve to demand that Taliban give up terrorism — the very method that has given them some [...]
By Anne-Christine Hoffb – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s [...]
By Lauretta Brown – National Catholic Register – As the last of the U.S. troops left Afghanistan Monday and the Taliban has taken control, many fear for the religious minorities in [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – The immediate question everyone faces is whether or not to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government. To start with, the current [...]
By Joel Beinin, Allison McManus – Jacobin – In the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make an important Middle East policy decision that will illuminate the Biden [...]
By Mai el-Sadany, Yasmin Omar – Carnegie Endowment – New amendments to the law governing Egypt’s highest court are the latest in a series of steps intended to eat away at the international [...]
By Malala Yousafzai – The New York Times – Ms. Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, is an activist for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize [...]
By Hakan Topal – Hyperallergic – I recently visited the Hagia Sophia for the first time after its conversion and felt overwhelming sadness. On the occasion of the 2003 Istanbul [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – After the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and military and the victory of the Taliban, some experts have warned of the danger of a failed [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – A Muslim father-of-four abducted a 13-year-old Christian girl, forced her to convert to Islam, and then “married” her. According to the father of [...]
By Daniel Pipes – National Interest – “More Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ over the last thirty years—and specifically over the last seven to ten years—than at any [...]
By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP – Egypt is in the process of building the largest parliamentary building in the Middle East in its New Administrative Capital. Last year [...]
By Steven Howard – Providence – In today’s hyperpolarized environment, Beltway commentators and even think-tank scholars seem unable to resist the temptation to put a partisan twist [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – All throughout sub-Saharan Africa — in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo — Muslims are terrorizing and [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Conquering Christians and turning their churches into mosques seems to be very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days. Last Friday, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Last summer, Turkish authorities transformed Hagia Sophia (“Holy Wisdom”) — which was originally built, and for a millennium functioned, as one of Christendom’s [...]
BY Michael Wahid Hanna – WPR – In recent weeks, Egypt has released a handful of high-profile political prisoners, including three journalists, Khaled Dawoud, Solafa Magdy [...]
By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal [...]
By Saba E. Demian, M.D. – I have written an article with this title some fifteen years ago which was published in the Coptic Assembly of America (CAA) newsletter. This is a second call to [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. denial [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – In a video released last Saturday, April 17, Muslims connected to the Islamic State executed a Coptic Christian man in Sinai, Egypt. The slain was identified as [...]
By Saba E. Demian, M.D. ـ The writing is on the wall. All can read it but none heed it. The sad and dismal plight of the Copts of Egypt is well documented from the time of the Islamic invasion of [...]
By Ariane Lavrilleux – The Africa Report With Donald Trump gone, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has lost a powerful ally in Washington. US lobbyists are trying to improve his [...]
Par Ariane Lavrilleux – The Africa Report Donald Trump parti, le maréchal Sissi a perdu un allié de poids à Washington. Des lobbyistes américains tentent de redorer l’image de son [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Hate-filled indoctrination and training in violence is not limited to the “schools” of ISIS or Boko Haram. Public schools [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – While many states in the Middle East and North Africa seem trapped in a death spiral of despair, the 2019 overthrow of Sudan’s Islamist dictator Omar [...]
By The National News – Will the new US president be tough on an old ally or is it business as usual – what the first weeks of Mr Biden’s presidency tell us about his view of Cairo. In the short [...]
By The Wall Street Journal – Pope Francis made history this week when he became the first pope to visit Iraq, a risky trip amid heightened security risks and surging coronavirus infections. [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – New evidence linking Turkish president Erdogan to Islamic terrorists has just emerged. Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, a longtime friend and colleague of Erdogan, who was [...]
By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – CAIRO — The Biden administration is struggling to reconcile two inescapable truths about Egypt: It’s an important friend and ally of the United [...]
By Lord Alton of Liverpool – Independent Catholic News Lord Alton gave the following reflection at the Coptic Commemorative Meeting today. It is an honour to join you for this day of [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “[T]he killing, rape and forced conversion of Christian girls have become an everyday matter and the government has denied this [...]
by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Ten years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old produce vendor, self-immolated to protest harassment from Tunisian government [...]
By Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor- It has been 10 years since the 2011 revolution brought down the Mubarak regime, but the pro-democracy activists who led the uprising say repressive policies [...]
by Tawfik Hamid – Gatestone Institute – Al-Azhar, the most respected Islamic university and organization in the Sunni world, is not – by their own definition – a terrorist [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Pakistan Christian Post The most recent escalation of violence against Egyptian Copts living in Egypt occurred last month (November 2020) and was sparked by Facebook [...]
By Florian Ripka-ACN via Aleteia – Ten years ago, Kiro Khalil survived an attack on Christians that killed three members of his family. Ten years ago on New Year’s Eve, the life of Coptic [...]
By Knox Thames- RNS — The birthplace of Christianity may soon be uninhabitable for its believers without reforms to help them survive. Days before the start of Advent, mobs in a city [...]
By Wall Street Journal (*) – When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master [...]
By Knox Thames – The Christian Post – While the COVID pandemic grabs headlines, there is a pandemic of persecution impacting billions of people around the world. People face daily [...]
By MEMRI – ” Muslims Must Give Their Souls In Defense Of The Prophet; Islam Commands Us To Love Muhammad And Jihad More Than Our Own Families.” Reactions in the Muslim world to [...]
By Fr. Mettias Nasr – Editor’s note: This article, written by the now-retired prominent priest of a poor suburb of Cairo, was initially published in 2012. I have noticed through the [...]
By Hussein Ibish – Bloomberg – But the release of three rights campaigners is a reassuring sign that international pressure works.. After a major international outcry, [...]
By Alaa Bilal The impunity of the Egyptian regime, Europe’s “indispensable” partner in fighting illegal migration and counter-terrorism measures, continues to shock and brutalize. Europe’s [...]
Par Joseph Yacoub – Le Figaro – Les chrétiens représentaient encore 20 % de la population turque au début du XXe siècle: ils ne sont plus que 0,2 % aujourd’hui. Comment le régime turc [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Muslims everywhere—from the heads of the most prestigious institutions, such as Egypt’s Al Azhar, to the common rank and file—are calling for the [...]
By Khaled Abu Toameh – Gatestone Institute – The labeled terrorist organization [Muslim Brotherhood] said, with a straight face, that it “wishes Mr. Biden, the American people, [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Voice of the Copts A few days ago news reports stated that you called a meeting of the Muslim Council of Elders in Cairo in order to plot a legal response against [...]
