March 2, 2022

Egypt’s War of Ideas

There is an ideological war underway in the Middle East and Western leaders need to make a choice to join Muslim reformers or support jihadist inquisitors.

August 21, 2021

America's strange alliance with al-Qaeda, renewed

The current foreign policy disaster in Afghanistan has been predicted for years.

September 9, 2020

The Fairmont case: Egypt's battle between civility and savagery

Fundamentalists embedded in the Egyptian government are challenging President al-Sisi over a notorious rape case. 

July 14, 2020

US Afghan Policy Is a Second Path to Another 9-11

President Barack Obama capitulated to the Taliban through a series of concessions, and the Trump administration has continued the same dangerous policies.

October 28, 2018

Qatar, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban: A creepy relationship

The release of a particularly vicious Taliban leader connects the dots.

May 7, 2018

An asylum-seeker who needs to be deported

The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and several other media outlets have framed the arrest as a human rights case, but they are dead wrong.

August 23, 2017

Is Al-Azhar University a Global Security Threat?

The world's largest Sunni Islamic educational institution, where many of the world's most brutal terrorists received their formal religious training.  This is to be expected, given the nature of the material taught there.

June 26, 2017

Gulf of Aqaba Treaty: a Saudi Repudiation of the Camp David Accords

Giving control of the Gulf of Aqaba to Saudi Arabia is a strategic mistake and a security threat.