Monique Villa

CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation

This past week, chatting away at the dinner table, I was asked about one of my favorite books. My answer was swift: 'Il Gattopardo' -"The Leopard"- th...

Brian Dooley

Director, Human Rights First's Human Rights Defenders Program

Unloved and dejected, the Egyptian policeman's lot is not a happy one. It's hard to see how the country's police will ever establish the trust and authority it needs for a successful transition to Egyptian democracy.

Majid Rafizadeh

President of the International American Council

A number of analysts and scholars of the Middle East have argued that the revolutions and uprisings taking place in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Syria are the first of their kind to take place in the region.

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein

Executive Director, Jewlicious and author of the forthcoming book Prayers for Israel

Here is the dilemma. You want to do a proper Seder, but need for whatever reason to get the Seder over and done with and you end up skipping essential parts of the Seder. With this in mind I created the 10 Minute Haggadah.

Robert Naiman

Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy

Whether you see Obama's Israel speech as a great motivational speech or a white flag of surrender, the practical consequences for the public are largely the same: the initiative for justice is going to have to come from somewhere else.

Eugenia Chandris

Vice President, Chandris Hotels

Running is happiness, mixed with a tinge of triumph and maybe a pinch of defiance. It's my recipe for energy and inspiration. It's what gets me started and keeps me going in the morning and in my life.

Raghida Dergham

Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat

The Middle East region looks at President Barack Obama from the perspective of his relations with three "I's", namely: Islamists, Iran and Israel. For...

James P. Farwell and Darby Arakelian

Defense consultant; author, 'Persuasion & Power: The Art of Strategic Communication'

Egyptian President Mohamad Morsi and his cohorts are revealing their true character and Egyptians don't like what they see.

Yousri Marzouki and Olivier Oullier

Professor, Aix-Marseille University

The Tunisian Harlem Shake incident comes on the verge of an unprecedented political crisis in this country.

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey

Former Bosnian foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations

Calls for change ironically resulted in a reactionary response toward women, a reversion to a diminished status. Did the Muslim Brotherhood seek to dampen the breadth and depth of the Conference's outcome, at least as it could apply to Egypt and other Arab states?

Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison

Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration and the Family Research Council

Egypt and the other countries in the Mideast will never be stable, much less democratic, if they murder their neighbors who worship differently. U.S. tax dollars should not buy the Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and its military the armored personnel carriers they use to run over Christians.

Evelyn Leopold

Veteran journalist reporting from the United Nations

With seven out of 10 women a target of sexual abuse, one would think it would be simple to adopt a program to combat violence. In the end a U.N. conference did that.

James Dorsey

Senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Egypt's judiciary and security forces appear posed to crack down on militant, highly politicized and street battle-hardened soccer fans in a bid to ex...

Michael Hughes

Foreign Policy Analyst

One wonders why the opposition has been unable to make political hay of the rising public indignation in response to the incumbent party's utter incompetence in Egypt.

Geneive Abdo

Fellow, Stimson Center

Since the Egyptian revolution, Sunni animosity in Egypt toward Shia Muslims has increased and gone public in a country where, in the past, doctrinal differences between the two Islamic sects were barely mentioned.

Neil Hicks

International Policy Adviser for Human Rights First

The costs to the United States of failure to promote peaceful democratic transition in Egypt should not be underestimated. The uprising in Egypt, and in other countries of the region, has presented the U.S. commitment to promoting human rights and democracy around the world with a stern test.