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Supporting Sisi: Coptic Advice on US Aid
Americans can be sentimental toward Egypt. It was Tunisia that birthed the popular movements to overthrow entrenched and autocratic leadership in the region, but the label of ‘Arab Spring’ did not...
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Egypt and the Agony of Ongoing Tragedy
Six a.m. in Cairo, May 19, I woke to the news of another disaster. EgyptAir flight 804 fell out of the sky en route from Paris, France. The world wondered if it was terrorism. Egypt pondered the same,...
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For Better or For Worse?
Islam and chaos, perhaps two words most intrinsic to the Middle East, found their culmination in the Arab Spring democratic uprisings of 2011 and numerous manifestations of Islamic-based turmoil over...
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A Rough Stretch in a Season of Waiting: Egypt’s Christians & the Cathedral...
“There has been a bombing at the cathedral,” said the pastor at the local Methodist church in a lower-class area of downtown Cairo. “Several are dead, and we pray for our nation.” It took me a moment...
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What You Should Know About Qatar
A crisis in the Middle East has erupted between numerous nations and the small state of Qatar. On Tuesday, President Trump appeared to claim on Twitter that he pressured Middle Eastern countries into...
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Muhammad en marche? Review of Gorka’s Defeating Jihad
According to his LinkedIn and Twitter pages—although not the White House website—Hungarian British American Sebastian Gorka holds the title Deputy Assistant to the President, an amorphous but exalted...
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Islamism: Contextualist or Essentialist? Or Both?
In an excellent review of Shadi Hamid and Will McCants’ Rethinking Political Islam, Olivier Roy says there are generally two ways to think about Islamism. Writing in Foreign Affairs, he first briefly...
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Democracy Won’t Save the Middle East’s Religious Minorities
Winston Churchill once observed that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Today democracy is widely understood to be a...
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A Close Look at Egypt’s Relentless Abuse of Coptic Christians
For those of us who have followed the struggle of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, particularly during the presidency of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, there’s been both good news and bad news. In...
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(Mis)Understanding American Islam
A new report published by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), titled The American Mosque 2020, offers a glimpse into the state of American Islam today. Or at least it claims to....
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The Suffering of the Saints
The Tragedies of Imbaba’s Coptic Church On Sunday, August 14, a new tragedy befell Egypt’s Copts, a fire at Saint Marcurius Church in Imbaba has left 41 dead, including 18 children and the church’s...
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Rushdie Is Not the End
Al-Qaeda’s Call To Assassinate Egyptian Author Ibrahim Eissa Highlights Dilemma Of Anti-Islamist Voices On August 12, 2022 in western New York, Salman Rushdie was brutally stabbed by a radicalized...
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The Saudi Mirage of Religious Freedom
As Motives Become Clear, the West should be Skeptical of Saudi Reforms While a driving ban for women would be unthinkable in Western democracies, the 2018 lifting of such a ban in Saudi Arabia was a...
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