MEF research finds that the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations involved with designated terrorist organizations.
Israelis Widely Agreed in the Aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, Massacre That Hamas Had to Be Destroyed. Some 16 Months Later, However, Hamas Remains a Powerful Institution
Erdoğan Perverts Turkish Nationalism to Distract from His Islamist Agenda and the Failure of His Financial Management
A Weakened Ayatollah Khamenei Considers His Options
Europe’s Engagement with the New Syrian Leadership Has Been Notably Swift, Yet It Still Refuses to Recognise the Taliban
Protests about Power in U.K., Not Peace in Gaza
Kurdish Negotiators in Syria Must Prioritize Enforceable Agreements That Safeguard Their Interests
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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The Three Suspects Allegedly Wanted to Avenge the Arab-Berber Troops Defeated in 732 by Charles Martel at the Battle of Poitiers -
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
Muslims in the US
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The Executive Order’s Central Thrust Is to Restore, Repair, and Expand National Security Vetting Across Every Agency That Might Touch Immigration -
Pro-Hamas, Anti-jewish College Demonstrators Here on Visas Are on Notice That Their U.S. Welcome Is Over, Even with Expected Lawsuits -
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.?
