It is now almost a month since Ahmed Zaky Badr became minister of education. I pray that he would muster the required wisdom and courage to confront the severely flawed climate which dominates the

What did the world see as Iran celebrated the 31st anniversary of its Islamic revolution? A hollowed-out regime that is better at repressing its own people than at governing, and that after three decades of fervent belief has reached a cynical middle age.

Many Christians in the west, Catholic and Protestant, are familiar with the penitential season preceding Easter that is known as Lent. But the observance of this season is unusually elaborate among the Orthodox Christians of the east, and unfamiliar to most outsiders.

Grand larceny is alive and well at my multi-starred hotel. “Your taxi will cost $150 — the journey is 45 minutes.” The concierge raises his hands to the sky as if the price has been determined by a higher

From a distance the domed roofs and towers look like any other mosque in Cairo, a city where the architecture of Islam dominates the low skyline. But up close the minaret turns out to be a bell tower;

The question is not if, but when and how France will banish full facial veiling from the streets of the République. Contrary to what has been reported in international media, the conclusions of the

No region — not even sub-Saharan Africa — competes with the greater Middle East when it comes to wanton savagery, thwarted opportunities and the danger posed to innocent populations around the

We must now face an extremely unpleasant truth: even giving the Obama Administration every possible break regarding its Iran policy it is now clear that the U.S. government isn’t going to take strong action on the nuclear weapons’ issue.

Although the Christmas day “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been the focus of a great deal of media attention, and his plot the enabling action for a new round of security measures,

Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I greet you all with best wishes for a blessed new year. As many of you are aware, last week the Coptic Orthodox Christians of Egypt faced another brutal attack and witnessed the murders of six young men as

In the eyes of Wahhabi Salafists, the Copts are not citizens but a subordinate minority in a country conquered by Muslims

In the wake of the Nag Hamadi killings prevailing Egyptian sentiment has asserted the essential unity between Muslim and Christian, presenting the Christmas massacre as an aberration of the norm. The

Clashes erupted between Coptic Christians and Muslims in several southern Egyptian towns after an attack that left seven Copts dead.

We need your help in stopping the Massacre of Coptic Christians in Egypt. Gunmen killed at least seven people in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt as worshippers left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas Thursday on January 7th. The attack took place in the early morning hours in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena province, about 40 miles from the famous ancient ruins of Luxor.

I feel disgusted when I read some of the Egyptian newspapers especially the ones owned by the government. What I hate most is the repetitive lying and distorting of truth. The stupid liars keep blaming

Those who forget their past they are condemned to repeat it. First of all, let me ask you this question: Who is keeping President Mubarak in the office? My answer is: America!

I have been stunned with the departure of Engineer Adly Abadir Youssef, but I find myself driven to write about a man that his endeavors

Christians in America and Europe worry about the secularisation of their holiday. They have legitimate concerns about Christianity being culturally marginalised. Egypt's Christians have a far more basic worry. Aside from rampant discrimination against Egypt's Coptic Christians, who represent about 15% of Egypt's 80 million people.

Nearly every day I get an e-mail about a campaign on behalf of yet another luckless adherent of an unpopular religion who's languishing in some gulag. If it's not the Baha'is or Christians in Iran, it's the Muslims and the Falun Gong in China.

AS FAR BACK as the fifth century, the Monastery of Abu Fana in Upper Egypt was renowned, in the words of one travel guide, for its “exceptional splendor and prestige.’’ Today that grandeur is gone. Instead the monastery has become a symbol of the abuse and degradation to which Egypt’s ancient Coptic Christian community is regularly subjected.

Egypt lives currently in crisis, the lack of democracy and concerns of the Egyptian community from bequeathing power to Jamal Mubarak, son of the dictator Hosni Mubarak is logical and legitimate