The Old Dictatorship Was Gone. But Was a New, Islamist Regime in the Process of Being Formed?
The Way Forward for Those Seeking Independence Is Accountability for Their Actions and Rule of Law
How a Secret Intelligence Pact Between Turkey and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Exposed Ankara’s Double Game on Terrorism
What Better Way to Acquire a Base than for Free?
The Convergence of West and South Asian Terror Networks Should Worry Both India and Israel
Suffering of Israeli Hostages, Hamas’s Crimes, Not on Radar of CAIR Leaders
The Legacy of Oum Kalthoum Remains One of the Most Spellbinding Musical Phenomena of the Twentieth Century
The U.S. Must Ensure That Taxpayers’ Money Never Goes to an Organization Whose Staff Expresses Support for Designated Terrorist Groups
Spotlight: The Trump Administration Redux
President Trump blew back into the White House promising across-the-board changes in the way America does business—and diplomacy—across the globe. What are his plans for the Middle East? Does the Israel-Hamas ceasefire portend a policy of strongarming allies, or will the administration adopt a more nuanced approach in time?
Will Trump revive and expand the Abraham Accords? What of the future presence of U.S. troops and naval assets? How will he deal with Syria and America’s Kurdish allies, or with Iran and its diminished network of proxies? MEF’s network of experts analyze these and other developments throughout the region.
Will Trump revive and expand the Abraham Accords? What of the future presence of U.S. troops and naval assets? How will he deal with Syria and America’s Kurdish allies, or with Iran and its diminished network of proxies? MEF’s network of experts analyze these and other developments throughout the region.
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas announced on Jan. 15 has implications nearly as momentous as the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre that precipitated it.
The deal comes after fifteen months of protracted indecision by the government of Israel, during which Jerusalem followed two contradictory policies toward Hamas: Destroy the organization. Make a deal with it.
The deal comes after fifteen months of protracted indecision by the government of Israel, during which Jerusalem followed two contradictory policies toward Hamas: Destroy the organization. Make a deal with it.
Middle East Quarterly - Current Issue
Founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, MEQ is the Middle East Forum’s journal intended for both scholars and the educated public. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists write for and read the Quarterly, which is known for exclusive interviews, in-depth historical articles, and book reviews on subjects ranging from archaeology to politics and on countries from Morocco to Iran.
Winter 2025 Volume 32: Number 1
Winter 2025 Volume 32: Number 1
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U.S. President Donald Trump Engages in a Double Pander, Giving Both His Pro-Israel and His Islamist Constituencies What They Most Want -
MEF Chief Editor Jim Hanson Explains This Deal Will Almost Certainly Fall Apart -
MEF Chief Editor Jim Hanson Discusses the Possibilities with FOX News -
Daniel Pipes Talks with Capitol Report on NTD
Middle East Forum Observer
Founded in 2024, the Observer provides rapid analysis on leading Middle East developments, from Marrakech to Mashhad and the Bab el-Mandeb to the Black Sea.
Launched in 2006, Islamist Watch is a project of the Middle East Forum. We work to combat the ideas and institutions of lawful Islamism in the United States and throughout the West. Arguing that “radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution,” we seek to expose the Islamist organizations that currently dominate the debate, while identifying and promoting the work of moderate Muslims.
CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds.
Antisemitism
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Focusing On Issues We Find Offensive but Which Do Not Affect Non-Muslims Creates Confusion Concerning Aspects of Islam That Affect So-Called Infidels -
Haddad’s Schmooze Fest with Palestinian Islamic Jihad Financier and Islamist Operative Sami al-Arian Shows His Inability to Discern Scholarship from Activism -
Anti-Western Propaganda Destroys the Lives of Those It Holds Captive -
The Student Newspaper Has Not Published a Story About the Firing of an Islamic Studies Professor Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Gaza
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Hamas Now Stands to Rebuild Its Rule over Gaza, and to Reconstitute Its Hold on the Strip -
Before and after October 7, Israeli authorities have permitted radical Hamas-aligned Western Islamist charities to enter Gaza and work openly with Hamas terror leaders, with some convoys even arriving from the Israeli side of the border. -
The World Often Rewards Those Who Shout the Loudest Rather than Those Who Anchor Their Claims on Solid Ground -
Hamas’s Penetration of UNRWA Means the Terror Group Hijacks Supplies the Aid Organization Says It Delivers
Islam
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If It Looks Like a Duck, Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, Then It’s Probably a Duck -
Former Nun Karen Armstrong’s Revisionist History Whitewashes Centuries of Muslim Conquests -
White Women Were and Continue to Be Seen as Sexually Promiscuous by Nature — Essentially ‘Provoking’ Muslim Men Into Lusting After and Raping Them -
Last Year’s Sequence of Events Has Substantially Shifted the Strategic Balance of the Region
Muslims in the US
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Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan Allegedly Plotted to Bomb Israeli Consulate in NYC -
How Might the Incoming Second Administration of Donald Trump Reduce the Threat of Attacks with Millions of Foreign Strangers Already Inside the U.S.? -
They Despise Celebrations Not Sanctioned by Islam and See Christmas as a Crime Against Allah -
The Lenny Zakim Fund gave $100,000 to an organization that later lionized a young man who immolated himself to protest American support for Israel
