October 26, 2007

Islamophobia and the Islamist Scarecrow

The wave of terror that was unleashed on the world in the past few decades is widely referred to as "Islamic terrorism" (or Islamist terrorism); the term is an apt description of the facts, and has a strong credibility among academicians, i...

February 13, 2007

Modernity and Western Values In the Clutches of Islamization

Muslim reformers of the past century - such as Mohammed Abdu, Refaa Al-Tahtawi, Taha Hussein, Ali Abdel-Razik and others - sought and unfortunately failed to modernize Islam. The militants, led by Hassan Al-Banna and his partisans, won this battle, a...

December 17, 2005

Muslims in the United States: Truths and Calumnies

[Editor's note: this article was written by a Magdi Khalil, a journalist in London and Egypt, writing for an Arabic readership. It is translated with the author's permission.  An earlier article of his explaining the United States to his reader...

September 27, 2005

Two ladies from Egypt

Two remarkable ladies demonstrate the endless possibilities Americans enjoy. Ms. Dina Onsi Habib Powell is the White House personnel director, who was appointed recently by President Bush to hold the position of Deputy Under Secretary of St...

September 18, 2005

The Ordeal of Arab Christians

The recent, simultaneous bombing of six Iraqi churches reflects the seriousness of the predicament of Arab Christians, who are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipu...

September 13, 2005

The United States: a good and honorable country

[Editor's note: this article was first published in in Al Hayat, an Arabic language newspaper in London. It is presented here for the first time in translation with the permisssion of its author. The image of the United States in the Islam...