Egypt’s New Political Transition
Egypt’s “Committee of the Fifty,” which serves as a constituent assembly, held its first deliberations last week to draft a new constitution. The meeting was a major milestone,...
Copts
Egyptians Still Hunger for Democracy
Zagazig, Egypt — The Egyptian protests that began on June 30 and culminated in the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi look a lot like the 2011 uprising that brought an end to the 30-year...
Op-eds
Salafi Jihadism in the North African Regional Context
Chairmen Poe and Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Members Sherman and Deutch, distinguished members of the subcommittees, it is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the threat of jihadist terroris...
Legislative Testimonies
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...
Op-eds
Analysis: What Do Mideast Christians Face in ’13?
Growing persecution of Middle Eastern Christians and holy sites by radical Islamists in the Middle East and Africa in 2012 resulted in large numbers of murders, bombings, imprisonments, church cl...
Op-eds
America’s Future in the Mideast
Thomas Friedman, Elliott Abrams, Walter Russell Mead, and Aaron David Miller advise the next president.
Op-eds
Egypt’s Veiled Islamic Rivalry
The Obama administration is insisting that the assault on the US Embassy in Egypt, and the subsequent riots and attacks elsewhere in the Middle East, were “absolutely” about an obscur...
Op-eds
The Mideast’s Vanishing Christians
Times are tough for Christian communities across the Middle East. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was putting it lightly when she said that Coptic Christians &ld...
Op-eds
Army of Islam Fighter From Gaza Killed in Syria
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who was a member of the al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam (Jaish al Islam) was killed during recent fighting in Syria, according to a martyrdom statement released by...
Op-eds
A New Egypt, But Is It An Improvement?
The Post reports: “Egypt’s electoral...
Op-eds
The Real ‘Spring’ is Not Arab
Buried beneath the news’ cycle of the Arab Spring is a much overlooked and potentially r...
Op-eds
Egypt’s Presidential Debate was a Historic Triumph for Democracy. So Why Did We Ignore It?
On Thursday night, something historic took place in Egypt: The first televised presidential debate ever held in the Arab world. This was four-and-a-half hours of real cut-and-thrust on sensitive...
Op-eds
The Bin Laden Files
What the al Qaeda leader's final correspondence tells us about his legacy.
Op-eds
Escalating State Violence Against Political and Religious Expression
The 2012 National Security & New Media Conference New York, NY Moderated Frank Gaffney Center for Security Policy...
Op-eds
Egyptian Islamic Group Plans to Sue Interior Ministry Over Torture
The Egyptian Gama'a al-Islamiyya plans to sue the Egyptian Interior Ministry because members of the organization were "tortured by t...
Op-eds
The Military, Not Mubarak, was Egyptians’ Real Enemy
Aside from Egypt, perhaps no place in the world was more galvanized by the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year than Washington. American policymakers and foreign policy experts on bot...
Op-eds
‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’
The Arab Spring was not hijacked
Op-eds
Egyptian Liberals Against the Revolution
Free societies mean more than just free elections.
Op-eds
Mob Tactics
Egypt captured Israeli-American Ilan Grapel to generate popular support among the volatile anti-Western middle class at home
Op-eds
The Copts Will Fight
But they won’t win.