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...
Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy
The country’s recent election was a masterpiece of counterfactual Kabuki theater—and there wasn’t a dry Western eye in the house
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,...
Europe is now home to one of the world’s strangest paradoxes. The continent’s most prominent mosque, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, has served as a church since the year 1236. Meanwhile, Ankara in July converted Europe’s...
This will set a dangerous precedent, emboldening supremacists not only in Turkey but also in the Middle East and North Africa.
Turkish police on October 7 detained...
Turkey’s July 15 abortive coup has produced a show of cross-party support for the country’s elected government. All three major opposition parties explicitly denounced the attempt, an...
Turkey’s July 15 abortive coup has produced a show of cross...
Two key events over the last month marked the complex tango between Greece and Israel. First, the step forward: Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Kotzias announced in a letter to Israel&rsquo...
A belated commemoration — 60 years lat...
The state of Christians in the Middle East is becoming an “existential struggle,” according to an ...
Being Christian in the Middle East has never been easy, but the wave of uprisings that has swept the region over the past year has made the situation for the region’s Christian minority alm...
Lebanon's civil war was a complex, multisided battle whose implications still shape the country's politics today. This article analyzes the forces involved domestically and the course o...
Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...
In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President George W. Bush thrice described Lebanon's government as “democratic” and pledged that “we will stand with the democratic...
Mia Bloom, Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terrorism (New York: Columbia University, 2005), 280 pp., $24.95. Timothy Naftali, Blind Spot: The Secret History of American...