Opinion

By mid-July, it was accompanied by another statement, painted in black, “Property of the Islamic State.” And with that, the Christians found their worst...

I want to concentrate on a unexamined aspect of this problem, one that has done much to shape what we know about the history...

More than 60 years after the collapse of the Jewish element in the Arab region and most of the Muslim world (because of the establishment...

That could be a description of today’s Middle East. In fact, it describes Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century.In the Middle...

On Sunday Pope Francis expressed his profound anguish: “Our brothers are persecuted, they are cast out, they are forced to leave their homes without...

Some observers have argued that the Arab Spring was a fundamentally secular movement, arising as a rejection of not only the existing regimes, but...

Michael Totten writes:When Egyptians dumped Hosni Mubarak, the majority didn’t vote for secular candidates in the first elections, as the Tunisians did. The Muslim...

The Copts represent the Middle East's largest Christian population, and were once one of the pillars of early Christianity, with some of its early...