There Is Absolutely No Dispute That Azerbaijan’s Actions in Nagorno-Karabakh Amount to Ethnic Cleansing
The Training Center Teaches Middle Eastern and Other U.S. Partners to Detect and Blunt Threats Posed by Smugglers
Turkish Intelligence Expands Operations Into Niger, a Strategic Hub Connecting North and Sub-Saharan Africa, to Advance Political Goals of President Erdogan’s Islamist Government.
We Await a Medical Study by the Lancet on the 98 Israeli Hostages Held for over a Year in Hamas Cages, Their Weight, Their Psychological Condition
U.S. President Donald Trump Engages in a Double Pander, Giving Both His Pro-Israel and His Islamist Constituencies What They Most Want
The Port of Berbera Can Be a Lower-Risk Logistical Hub and Military Staging Ground than Zones Closer to Yemen
Blinken’s Feckless Foreign Policy Initiatives Have Diminished Respect For, and Fear Of, the U.S. Throughout the World
Hamas Now Stands to Rebuild Its Rule over Gaza, and to Reconstitute Its Hold on the Strip
Spotlight: Syria After Assad
After over half a century of slaughter and oppression, the Assad regime in Syria collapsed in the face of the advancing forces of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), a U.S.-designated terrorist group rooted in al Qaeda and ISIS. HTS leader Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, with a $10 million FBI bounty on his head, preaches religious moderation and promises liberty with the passion of a convert, but Western officials should not be deceived by mere words.
Major powers jockey to fill the vacuum left by Assad’s flight, with the Islamist Erdoğan regime in Turkey—HTF’s chief sponsor—ascendant, while Russia and Iran suffered significant losses. MEF’s analysts examine the current state of affairs in Syria and possible outcomes of these dramatic events.
Major powers jockey to fill the vacuum left by Assad’s flight, with the Islamist Erdoğan regime in Turkey—HTF’s chief sponsor—ascendant, while Russia and Iran suffered significant losses. MEF’s analysts examine the current state of affairs in Syria and possible outcomes of these dramatic events.
Iran’s decision to launch 181 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday night followed a similar pattern to the attacks of 14 April. Israeli and allied air defences appear to have performed extremely effectively. The damage to the military and civilian sites targeted is minor to non-existent. One Palestinian Arab man was killed in a village near Jericho, not from the Iranian missiles, it appears, but from interceptor debris.
The question now is what comes next. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic.
The question now is what comes next. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic.
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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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 -
MEF Chief Editor discusses the end of the Assad regime and how the actions of Russia, Iran and Turkey will affect the outcome with FOX News.
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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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 -
The Incoming Trump Administration Should Suspend or Reprogram U.S. Military Assistance to Egypt
Islam
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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 -
ISIS’s January 2024 Call to Random Violence Explains the Deadly Logic Behind Recent Vehicular Terror Attacks in New Orleans and Germany.
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
