Opinion

Trepidation among the Copts What do Egypt’s Copts think of the new president, asks Nader Habib

"Mursi, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar," the neighbours started shouting. And Wagdy, who voted for Amr Moussa in the first round and Shafik in the...

President Morsi, a Rigged Ballot and a Fox’s Tale That Has All of Cairo Abuzz

Now behind this piece of Reynard-gossip is a further piece of information – shattering if true – that the Egyptian army's intelligence service is...

Obama Overlooks Christian Persecution 1

The current turmoil in Egypt is increasing the number of Egyptian Christians seeking asylum in the West and especially in America. Most of these...

Over 75% of Egyptian Americans Voted For Islamist

Both Alarabiya TV and Egyptian national TV reported that Egyptian immigrants voted 75% in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the primary. Now...

A Case of Harsh Negotiations in Egypt

 In light of real events, many have come to reconsider the scenarios they once imagined, and it seems that much of what happened was...

Islamists vs. Copts: An Animosity That Seeks Any Excuse to Attack

Regardless, Abu Ismail, the Salafi presidential candidate who was disqualified, expressed "great disappointment" in "our Coptic brethren," saying that "I do not understand why...

Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring

These are famous words, spoken almost verbatim some 33 years earlier, in Iran, at the time of the 1979 revolution. In fact, during the...

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