Gary Gambill

Gregg Roman

Executive Director

Gregg Roman is the executive director of the Middle East Forum, previously directing the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. In 2014, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency named him one of the “ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders,” and he previously served as the political advisor to the deputy foreign minister of Israel and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A frequent speaker on Middle East affairs, Mr. Roman appears on international news channels such as Fox News, i24NEWS, Al-Jazeera, BBC World News, and Israel’s Channels 12 and 13. He studied national security and political communications at American University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, and has contributed to The Hill, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, and the Jerusalem Post.

Articles by this Author
We Are Beginning to Forget the Central Lesson of October 7—That an Existential Threat Cannot Be ‘Managed’
Mamdani’s Leftist Revolutionary Comrades and Islamist Allies in Civilizational Jihad Are over the Moon with the Opportunity They Have Won
Trump’s Choice Between Gulf Pragmatism and Islamist Opportunism Will Define Whether Gaza Becomes a Model of Reconstruction or a Warning for the Region
Israel Stands at the Edge of Uneasy Quiet—a Nation Suspended Between Victory and Vigilance, Rebuilding its Institutions, Faith, and Purpose After the Long War that Refused to End.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ Recent Video Defense of Tucker Carlson Is Deeply Troubling
We Can Cripple Tehran Without Firing a Shot
The October 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel Exposed a Fundamental Truth: Hamas’s Control Masked but Never Eliminated Deeper Tribal Loyalties
How a Ceasefire Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory, Ensuring the Terror Group Survives to Fight Another Day
The Sinwar Precedent Continues: How Prisoner Exchanges Breed the Next Generation of Mass Murderers
The Source of Instability in the Middle East Is Not Israeli Strength—It Is the Genocidal Ideology of Iran and Its Network of Islamist Proxies
With Trump’s Executive Order, America Has Allied Itself Not with a Partner for Peace, but an Agent for Instability
Conflicts Do Not End Through Negotiation or Compromise When One Side Is an Implacable, Ideological Foe
Italy and Spain Should Direct Their Warships to Halt Escort Operations Inside Israel’s Territorial Sea
A Middle East Forum Report | Based on Information Gathered by the Middle East Forum, 2018-2024
Tuesday’s Blasts in Doha, Qatar, Shattered the Illusion That Masterminds of Mass Murder Can Recline in Five-Star Safety and Call It ‘Diplomacy’
The Explosions That Shattered the Morning Calm in Doha’s Katara District on September 9, 2025, Marked a Restoration of Moral Clarity in Warfare
From the Comfort of Its Control Center in Doha, Hamas Rejected Proposals to Free All the Hostages and Rejected Deals to End the War with Israel
The Choice Isn’t Between Diplomacy and Security, but Between Accepting Normalized Terror Operations and Imposing Real Costs