Cities gripped by tyranny and poverty. A fractured country ruled by warlords and factions. A hollowed out middle class…
Author: Alberto M. Fernandez
Syria | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 682 There was a time, not so long ago, when Syria – the…
COMMENTARY: The greatest hope of the people of Rmeish is to live in peace. Israel and Hezbollah have other priorities.…
Given hot wars raging in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Sudan, the news attracted little attention except among…
Splendid televised ceremony in Lebanon last night, at the seat of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke of the Beatification of…
There is a long-suffering people in Sudan, they live on a rugged mountain in the middle of Darfur. Theirs is…
All wars feature their own narratives. These are the ways that belligerents seek to portray themselves to outsiders and to…
In what was seen as an escalation by the Sudanese regular armed forces (SAF), units belonging to the rival Rapid…
One of the cruelest aspects of the Syrian Civil War was the ethnic cleansing. Every side did it, purging populations…
It is a year ago since Lokman Slim was assassinated in Lebanon. His was the latest in a series of…
After months of nebulous plotting, the domestic and foreign actors who drove opposition to Hamdok’s reformist government will become more…
How long do you keep investing in failure? How much effort does one put into reviving a corpse? When can…
Since experiencing major upheaval and demands for change in 2019, the country has achieved real gains in its political transition,…
Sudan’s former dictator reportedly siphoned off “millions of dollars” from one of the world’s poorest nations and sent it to…
Given the alarming trends in the Middle East, America should fashion agile media platforms that influence audiences in the region…
I recently attended two events connected to the role of social media in our daily lives. One was the much-reviled…
The fall of the nearly 30-year regime of Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir was almost entirely due to the heroism and…
To forge a better future, the country must break the vicious cycle of military rule followed by incompetent, corrupt rule…
While Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s statement that “we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle…
On June 19, 2017, the Islamic State’s Wilaya (Province) of Raqqa, one of the two main cities of the ISIS…
Watching pan-Arab media as I do, and as I have on a regular basis for decades, two items caught my…
Muslims and Christian Iraqi civilians carry a wooden cross last month near a monastery in Mosul, northern Iraq. A group…
As with comedy, timing is everything for the politics of being a state sponsor of terrorism. Political considerations, as much…
Christian holy books and images damaged in April 2017 Tanta church bombing The spectacular acts of slaughter and mayhem…
The propaganda of the Islamic State is entering an interesting new phase, as the “physical” Caliphate comes under unprecedented pressure…
I recently saw a small but noisy demonstration in a Spanish city. The young demonstrators, pierced, tattooed, and well dressed,…
Much of the recent media coverage of the new Trump administration has an air of hysteria about it. The barbarians…
A fascinating Arabic language video produced by the pro-ISIS Al-Wa’ad Media Foundation made the rounds on social media in December…
Asked recently about the absence of the United States from talks by Russia, Turkey and Iran on the future of…
Even before a new American president is inaugurated, some critics are hyperventilating and making sweeping statements about the new administration…
We live in a deeply politicized and polarized world. This is a place where saying that “all lives matter” is…
What the West needs to understand about Middle East Islamo-Fascism by J.C. Derrick PHOTOS BY LEE LOVE/GENESIS Ambassador…
It is all too easy today to look at the Middle East and throw up one’s hands in deep despair,…
Religious freedom is in crisis around the world. From violent Islamic extremists committing genocide across the Middle East (and inspiring…
To write anything about Saudi Arabia is to invite controversy. The country has been both an incubator and a victim…
On September 9, 2016, U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) introduced a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives calling…
The Islamic State has long relied on several key factors in making its case for Muslim hearts and minds. For…
Recently, a series of high-profile comments by Western politicians on aspects of Islam have come under public scrutiny. These comments…
The concepts of exile and refuge are ancient ones existing across many civilizations and cultures. The Ottoman Empire and other…
Image from May 2016 ISIS video in support of ISIS Sinai Wilayah The social media phenomenon that is the…
Spain, or at least the Spain of Islamic conquest and primacy, Al-Andalus, looms large in the Islamist psyche, particularly so…
Icon of the “21 New Martyrs of Libya” by Egyptian-American artist Tony Rezk The Islamic State (ISIS) and its former…
On January 25-27, 2016, several hundred Muslim religious leaders from throughout the world and fifty non-Muslim observers met in the…
Some might say that the spirit of the modern age, at least in the developed West, is all about an…
Lifelong language study can change a person. It enriches one’s life, especially if it is a relatively difficult language requiring…
Introduction It comes as no surprise that the startling phenomenon of Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda has galvanized attention since the…
YouTube Hosts Music Playlists Promoting Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Jihadi Ideology U.S. social media companies have made some progress over…
The destruction by the entity known as the Islamic State (ISIS) in August 2015, of the over-1,500-year-old Syrian Catholic Monastery…