Sisi and Trump’s Good Relations Don’t Define US Policy
By Hatem Maher – MENA Source – The Atlantic – When President Donald Trump won the US presidential election late last year, Egyptian media coverage praising his stunning rise to [...]
Egypt: second Copt in two years dies mysteriously in same Army unit – this time on his first day
By World Watch Monitor – The family of a Coptic Christian soldier who died last month on his first day at work – in the same regiment where another Copt died in mysterious circumstances in [...]
On Radical Islam, Trump Has Lost His Focus
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali – The Wall Street Journal – There’s no ‘extreme vetting,’ no outreach to moderates, and too much coziness with Riyadh. Candidate Donald Trump vowed to take a fresh [...]
A Christian Ban?
By Lolita Brayman – Foreign Policy – The Trump administration has decided to deport Iraqi Christians back to their dangerous homeland, and the timing is more than a little suspicious. The [...]
After Backing Trump, Christians Who Fled Iraq Fall Into His Dragnet
By Vivian Yee – The New York Times – A few Sundays ago, federal immigration agents walked through the doors of handsome houses here in the Detroit suburbs, brushing past tearful children, [...]
US Senators Send President Trump Letter Regarding Egypt’s NGO Law
On June 19, 2017, ten U.S. Senators sent a letter to President Trump regarding Egypt’s new NGO law that imposes draconian measures on civil society. View the original letter [...]
Judith Miller: Trump, Egypt and the future
By Judith Miller – FOX News – The Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt are a tragedy for Egyptian Christians, the Middle East’s oldest and largest Christian community and [...]
Sisi, Trump, and the Politics of Designating the Muslim Brotherhood
By Clifford Smith – National Review – The group uses violent means when necessary to advance its Islamist agenda. Hopes that the Trump administration will designate the Muslim [...]
Congressional Meetings Bring Criticism for al-Sisi
By POMED – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with numerous congressional leaders and members in Washington on Tuesday. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued a statement after [...]
U.S. Resets Relations With Egypt
By Dr. Henry Srebrnik, Professor of Political Science – University of Prince Edward Island – As turbulent a country as ever, Egypt, in the last six years, has seen an uprising topple [...]
