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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
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“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
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Time to Take the Iranian Nuclear Bull by the Horns
By: Colin M. Winston
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Slavery, Abolition, and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
The British Suicide: The U.K.'s Self-Inflicted Failure to Defeat Jihad for Two Decades
March 1, 2025
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The Gaza War and the ‘Egypt-Is-Too-Big-to-Fail’ Argument
By: Nael Shama
March 1, 2025
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Misinformation Strategy and Media Bias in the Gaza War
By: Andrew Fox and Tatiana Glezer
March 1, 2025
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Brief Reviews
December 9, 2024
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Turkey’s Demographic Engineering in Syria’s Afrin Region: A Closer Look
December 9, 2024
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Sirwan Kajjo
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Why the Palestinian Authority Cannot Allow Free Speech
December 9, 2024
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Ido Zelkovitz
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Vindicating The Poisoned Chalice: Iran’s Creeping Invasion of Iraq
December 9, 2024
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Ofra Bengio
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War With Israel: Comparing IS and Al-Qaeda
December 9, 2024
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Book Reviews
Shenit Lo Tipol: Yisrael BeMizrach Tichon Garini [Shall Not Fall Again: Israel in a Nuclear Middle East]
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
No Nos Taparán: Islam, Velo, Patriarcado [They Will Not Cover Us Up: Islam, Veil, and Patriarchy]
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
Feminismo E Islam: Una Ecuación Imposible [Feminism and Islam: An Impossible Equation]
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca: Historical and Contemporary Accounts
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
The Only Jew in the Room: Searching for Understanding in an Arab Islamic College
December 9, 2024
Book Reviews
Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East
October 7, 2024
Book Reviews
Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy
October 4, 2024
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