The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

Erase. That is the key word. Erasure has long defined the Islamic approach to pre-Islamic civilizations. Historically — and ...

An Islamic sect whose leader claims to be the new Pope and whose followers say he can perform 'miracles' is operating out of ...

Iran's nuclear obsession can be explained through three key facts: deterrence failure, religious incentives for apocalyptic ...

Christian communities are being wiped out across the Middle East. They are taking with them a crucial moderating influence.

PERHAPS the history of Islam is incomplete without a mention of Egypt. This is an ancient country that has pioneered world civilisation in all ramifications. Over a span of 50 centuries, the banks of ...

The Role of Christian Minorities in the Islamic World Christian communities flourished in various Muslim empires, including the Umayyad (661–750 CE), Abbasid (750–1258 CE), and Ottoman (1299 ...

The establishment of the Islamic Empire and its conquests strengthened the position of Christians in the region, as they had already worked since the first century of the Hijri to consolidate the ...

Egypt declared 2017 the "Year of the Woman", but nearly three years later women have yet to be granted equal inheritance rights. One woman has made it her personal mission to rectify that.

CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father’s death last year, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has ...