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Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel

The Prophet Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in the northern Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on November 14, 2016. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)

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Once upon a Time Jews Lived Here

Samuel Tadros

Former Senior Fellow

Samuel Tadros

Mar 16, 2017

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A youth waves Egyptian flags from a lamp post in Tahrir Square on February 1, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

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Does Egypt Still Matter?

Samuel Tadros

Former Senior Fellow

Samuel Tadros

Mar 15, 2017

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8 Min Read

President Donald Trump holds a meeting with members of his cabinet including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis (R) in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 13, 2017(Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

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Will Obama's Foreign Policy Wizards Save Trump?

Lee Smith

Former Senior Fellow

Lee Smith

Mar 15, 2017

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8 Min Read

Egyptian Christians, who took shelter at Saint Anthony church due to violent events in the Sinai Peninsula, carry their belongings in Zaafarana, Egypt on February 26, 2017. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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Jews, Christians and Another Deadly Jihadi Pogrom in Egypt

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Mar 3, 2017

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9 Min Read

A mourner reads the Quran on August 17, 2011 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Making the Islamic Case for Religious Liberty

Abdullah Saeed

Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

Abdullah Saeed

Mar 1, 2017

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Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in a video in which he warns Cameroon it faces the same fate as Nigeria. (Boko Haram video screenshot)

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Justifying War: The Salafi-Jihadi Appropriation of Sufi Jihad in the Sahel-Sahara

Abdulbasit Kassim

Graduate Student, Islamic Studies & African Religions, Rice University

Jacob Zenn

Research Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation, and Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Abdulbasit Kassim & Jacob Zenn

Mar 1, 2017

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A protest against military regime on the fifth anniversary of Egyptian revolution, in Giza, Egypt on January 24, 2016. (Hesham Fathy/Anadolu Ag

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The Muslim Brotherhood: Terrorists or Not?

Mokhtar Awad

Research Fellow, George Washington University's Program on Extremism

Samuel Tadros

Former Senior Fellow

Mokhtar Awad & Samuel Tadros

Mar 1, 2017

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4 Min Read

Map Of The Umayyad Caliphate Empire In 750 And The Islamic Empire In 1215. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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In Search of the Vanished Caliphate

Alexander Orwin

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Constitutional Government, Harvard University

Alexander Orwin

Mar 1, 2017

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Screenshot from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11 by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province.

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How al-Qaeda Survived the Islamic State Challenge

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Nathaniel Barr

Research Manager, Valens Global

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr

Mar 1, 2017

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City market, Marrakech, Morocco. (Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images)

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Deconstructing Daesh

Ahmed Abbadi

President, Mohammedia League of Moroccan Ulama

Ahmed Abbadi

Mar 1, 2017

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(L-R) U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talk during the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on March 26, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

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The Left's Blatant Hypocrisy on Russia and Iran