Opinion

 The Church's dilemma was twofold. First was the question of invitations. Every Christmas, the Church sends invitations to governmental, political, and civil-society figures to...

The results of the Burns-Morsi get-together actually contained no great surprises for those who believe the Democratic Party's support of the Arab Spring is...

Come with me to Cairo’s dirt-poor Shubra el-Khema neighborhood and the dilapidated Omar Abdel Aziz School, where I watched the last round of voting...

A core of activists still come to Tahrir Square, but the real game is farther afield, where Islamist parties have mobilized tens of thousands...

While the Ottoman Janissaries, who terrorized Europe for centuries, are the most notorious of Islam's slave soldiers, Egypt's Mamluks—the word mamluk simply means "owned"—actually...

Haniyeh described Hamas as the Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood. Referring to their alliance Haniyeh said, “Our presence with the Brotherhood threatens the Israeli...