Opinion

Islamic State’s Global Expansion

  Even as the United States struggles to combat Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, swift U.S. action is urgently needed in these new...

The Expulsion of Coptic Families and the Role of State and Society

Yet again news comes of Coptic families expelled from their villages, this time in Beni Soueif and Minya, part of the terms of customary...

Faith Security: The New Moral Anxiety

Controversial TV host Islam al-Beheiry deserves to be in prison, as his ideas endangered “faith security,” Al-Azhar Dean of Sciences Abdel Moneim Fouad told...

ISIS’s View of Christians Echoes That of Official Saudi Fatwas

  Strangely enough, there was very little press coverage on the bulk of the 29-minute video – 24 minutes of it – that focused not...

Obama’s Strategy for the Middle East Has Backfired

  The Middle East is more dangerous and unstable than when Obama came into office — a time when Iraq and Syria were more stable,...

How the Islamic State Could Win

  But let’s test that proposition and think for a minute about what it would take for the group to win. What would success look...

Contain and Amplify

  The Arab world is a pluralistic region that lacks pluralism— the ability to manage and embrace differences peacefully. As such, the Middle East’s pluralistic...

Arabization of Islam – Islamization of the Arabs

    But beyond these similarities there were vast differences. Feisal was as wily as the Shah was improvident. Iran’s alliance with the most visibly and...

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