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Egypt to Criminalize ‘Insulting’ Jan 25, June 30 Uprisings

  The news was issued in a press release on Tuesday without providing more details. The 25 January 2011 uprising ended the 30-year reign of autocrat...

Dispatch from Aleppo

After the uprising against Assad’s government began in 2011 Aleppo remained largely uninvolved, but fighting broke out the following year when rebel forces stormed...

In Northern Iraq, ISIS Ransacks Christian Culture, Researchers Say

  A sixth-century Christian church in the region was bombed this summer and another church obliterated, said Dr. Amal Marogy, a researcher in Neo-Aramaic studies...

Christian Convert Illegally Imprisoned and Tortured, Continues Hunger Strike

Bishoy, more notoriously known as Mohammed Hegazy, is the first Egyptian ever to try legally to change his religious identity from Muslim to Christian...

Al Shabaab Massacres 36 Kenyan Christians on Somali Border

Al Shabaab, an al Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia, has claimed responsibility for the attack.   It said in a press release issue on 2 December...

Syrian Poet Adonis: Progress Impossible In The Arab World Without Separation Of Religion And State

  Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV   Adonis: "The peoples will not progress without carrying out revolutions, and unless they break away...

Egypt’s Brotherhood Expands Media Machine

But the group might have spread its media wings too thinly. Its ever-growing outlets seem to have fallen short of having any conspicuous or...

Congress Weighs Restoring Military Aid to Egypt, Frozen by Administration

The Obama administration slashed military aid to Egypt after Gen. Abdul Fatah Al Sisi moved against the Muslim Brotherhood government.   In August 2013, the administration...

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