Opinion

Values or Interests

Are we witnessing the triumph of our interests over our values? Also, the red line that we warned to impose upon the government of...

Egypt, a Key to Defeating Radical Islam

Since the 1970s, militant Islamists have carried out mass-casualty attacks and beheadings against civilians worldwide with no sign of letting up. Now that the...

Three Years On and the Copts’ Plight Continues

On 9 October, 2011 a group of Egyptians organized a protest from Shubra district to Maspero, the headquarters of the Egyptian Radio and Television...

Bombing for Show? Or for Effect?

No one can match Stalin for merciless cynicism, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is offering a determined echo by ordering Turkish tanks...

The Trepidations of a Reluctant Warrior

Knowing Obama, however, some of us had doubts about the genuineness of his professed change of tack.   Over the past weeks, those doubts have been...

Three Years After the Maspero Massacre: Where is the Justice?

Coptic and Egyptian activist groups had called for a mass march to protest the burning and destruction of the Mar-Guirguis church in Aswan at...

Who Does Turkey Support?

Last week, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had to zigzag between the truth that accidentally spilled out of him and Washington's pragmatism. In a...

Awaiting Dismissal of Minya Security Chief…

I patiently waited, even slowed myself down, before tackling the recent events that took place in the village of Gabal al-Teir in Samalout, Minya,...

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