Egypt Tests Trump’s Pledge to Defend Persecuted Christians
Despite President Donald Trump’s pledge to hold accountable those who persecute Christians around the world, American allies continue to test the administration’s resolve. On January 28,...
Coptic Orthodox Church
Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood
Memos
Hamasniks in fox holes
They say there are no atheists in foxholes. When it comes to Hamas, that’s not reassuring. Hamas members proclaim themselves jihadis – dedicated to the proposition, clearly stated in the Hamas Charter,...
Op-eds
Egypt’s War Against the World’s Oldest Christian Monastery
The state’s suppression of St. Catherine’s is a microcosm of Egypt’s broader campaign against the country’s Christians—including my family.
Op-eds
How to Warm the Cold Peace Between Egypt and Israel
As the Trump administration considers its Middle East peace strategy, one target should be a deeper relationship between the Arab world’s most populous nation and the Jewish state, one that advances...
Op-eds
10 Things to Know About Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula is a strategic land bridge between Africa and Asia. The Sinai Peninsula, which connects the continents of Africa and Asia, has a landmass of 23,000 square miles, approximately...
Insights
Egypt’s disappearing women
In America, progressive feminists often speak out against toxic masculinity. But in Egypt, women, especially Christian women, live with its brutal reality. Julia Atef, 21, never...
Op-eds
U.S. Lawmaker Highlights Plight of Christian Man Imprisoned in Egypt Over Facebook Posts
The plight of a Yemeni man imprisoned in Egypt for participating in a Facebook group composed of Muslim converts to Christianity has been highlighted by a prominent U.S. lawmaker....
Flash Briefs
After Israel-Hamas war, Egyptian Copts face ambiguous future
For almost a decade, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has wanted to curb religious extremism and enhance the status of Christians in his country. In the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7th attacks...
Op-eds
Bashar al-Assad is back
And the Arab League’s got him
Op-eds
The Middle East’s religious minorities are facing extinction. The world must act.
Pope Francis began his first-ever papal trip to Iraq on Friday, marking a watershed moment in relations between the Catholic Church and the Middle East. Yet for all the optimism of the Pope’s message,...
Op-eds
Midterm Assessment: Egypt
The problem with promoting democracy
In a better world, I’d be enthusiastically in favor of democracy promotion and even nation-building -- more correctly called state-building. But we don’t live in a better world....
Op-eds
A pope and a grand imam
Pope Tawadros II had planned to spend last week on retreat in a monastery near Alexandria. But then Mohammed bin Salman, on a three-day visit to Egypt, asked to see him. The Saudi Crown...
Op-eds
The War on Free Speech
Last Friday, in his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama scolded Sony Pictures. Cancelling the theatrical release of “The Interview” following cyber-attacks from North Ko...
Op-eds
A Road Map To Get To The Bottom Of Benghazi
CNN President Jeff Zucker says his network may not bother to report on the House...
Op-eds
Christians Persecuted at Alarming Rate in Iran, Arab World, US Report Says
Christians are under siege in the Middle East, and the Obama administration is not doing enough to stop religious persecution by its allies, according to a new report from a bipartisan federal co...
Op-eds
Analysis: Despite Plight of Mideast Christians, Some Leaders Still Single Out Israel
The deadly bomb attacks in Christian districts of Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Christmas Day caused the deaths of 37 people. One bomb appeared to target congregants leaving a Ca...
Op-eds
Where Is Egypt Headed?
Egypt is caught in an authoritarian vise. On the one hand, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated former president Mohamed Morsi and his Islamic supporters trampled roughshod over the rights and liber...
Op-eds
Obama’s New World Order: Power to Our Enemies, Death to Our Friends & a Fish in the President’s Face
The anti-Morsi, anti-Muslim Brotherhood, and therefore anti-Obama demonstrations in Egypt are the biggest in human history. It’s quite something, an historic event. Whatever the...