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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.

Summer 2025 Volume 32: Number 3
Middle East Quarterly
“Are You Alawite?”: A Call to Prevent Genocide in Syria
June 1, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence as a Pathway to Normalization Between Israel and Saudi Arabia: Post-Gaza War Prospects
June 1, 2025
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A Growing Security Threat: Iranian Intelligence Operations in Scandinavia (Part One: Denmark and Norway)
June 1, 2025
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Iran’s Use of Psychological Warfare Against Its Adversaries and Strategies for Deterrence
June 1, 2025
Book Reviews
June 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
June 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Summer 2025
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Pan-European Structure
January 1, 2023
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Lorenzo Vidino
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
The Sultan’s Fleet: Seafarers of the Ottoman Empire
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz’s “Children of the Alley”
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
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Tehran’s Shiification of Syria
Iran’s Hegemonic Drive
January 1, 2023
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Rauf Baker
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Brief Reviews
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
An Anxious Inheritance: Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
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When Arab Politicians’ Shouts and Whispers Contradict
January 1, 2023
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Daniel Pipes
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment
January 1, 2023
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Book Reviews
Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies
January 1, 2023
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
The Shi’i Islamist Regime’s Footprints in North America: How Iranian Mullahs and IRGC Expand Their Influence and Networks
January 1, 2023
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Majid Mohammadi
Gary Gambill
Middle East Quarterly
The “Islamophobia” Regime
January 1, 2023
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Dexter Van Zile
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel
September 1, 2022
Gary Gambill
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Erdoğan’s Regional Charm Offensive
September 1, 2022
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Burak Bekdil
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975
September 1, 2022
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940
September 1, 2022
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
The Perils of Nonviolent Islamism
September 1, 2022
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right
September 1, 2022
Gary Gambill
Middle East Quarterly
Israel’s Tightrope between Russia and Ukraine
September 1, 2022
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Robert O. Freedman
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Seeking Stabilizers: Israel’s Regional Strategy Through the Southern Syria Lens
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To Defeat the Houthis, Saturate Yemen’s Air Space with Drones
Strategic Success Comes Through Smart, Sustained Operations That Deny the Enemy Space to Operate
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The Recent Violence in Al-Suwayda’ Province and the Joint Statement of Compromise
What Explains the Recent Violence in the Primarily Druze Province of Al-Suwayda’ in Southern Syria?
July 15, 2025
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