March 2, 2022

Egypt’s War of Ideas

Egypt is embroiled in a war of ideas as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi resists Islamists in a struggle for the future of Egypt and the Middle East. Currently, there are historic reforms taking place in the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrai...

August 21, 2021

America's strange alliance with al-Qaeda, renewed

The current foreign policy disaster in Afghanistan has been predicted for years.  In 2018, this author warned that the release of Taliban commander and mass murderer Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, from a Pakistan prison would strengthen the Ta...

September 9, 2020

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

Recently, Egyptian society has been consumed by a horrific rape incident, known in Egypt as "the Fairmont Case."  This case has revealed cultural and ideological aliments in Egypt and has exposed the internal ideological struggle ...

July 14, 2020

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

The United States' failed policy in Afghanistan is likely to result in another 9-11.  President Barack Obama capitulated to the Taliban through a series of concessions, and the Trump administration has continued the same dangerous polic...

October 28, 2018

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

On October 25, a spokesman for the Taliban announced that Pakistan had released Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar from prison.  Baradar, the Taliban co-founder and former deputy to Mullah Mohammed Omar, was arrested by Pakist...

May 7, 2018

An asylum-seeker who needs to be deported

On April 5, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Ahmed Abdel Basit Mohamed for "administrative immigration violations."  This was not the first time Basit had been charged.  In 2016, an Egypt...

August 23, 2017

Is Al-Azhar University a Global Security Threat?

Al-Azhar University, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic educational institution, is 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 ...

June 26, 2017

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

After more than a year of a heated debate, Egypt finally ceded two small Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia, giving KSA control over the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba. These waterways separate the Sinai Peninsula from the Arabian main...