Opinion

The fatal moment predicted by Prince Bandar may now have come for many Shia, with Saudi Arabia playing an important role in bringing it...

The Problematique of Definition Traditions themselves are often invented and reinvented.(1) Thus present-day neo-traditionalism is not simply an unaltered replica of the past, but...

But it is in the Middle East that history is at work on a daily basis and with the most dramatic consequences. The old...

Saad told me he was one of a group of 21 Chaldean Catholics who had travelled from Kirkuk in Iraq to attend the Mass....

In Malaysia, courts ban some non-Muslims from using the word “Allah.”In country after country, Islamic fundamentalists are measuring their own religious devotion by the...

During the past three years, liberal parties have denounced the way in which the Brotherhood and the Salafists distorted people’s political awareness with the...

“The period under the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule was historically the worst for Egypt’s minorities,” according to Youssef Sidhom, the managing editor of Watani, a...

Now Egyptians are trying to find out how retired field marshal-turned-President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi plans to tackle Egypt's problems.Puzzling personalityFor a man who has...