Michel Gurfinkiel

Milstein Writing Fellow

A scholar of European Islamism, Turkey, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Michel Gurfinkiel is founder and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, a Paris-based think tank, and a former editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles, France’s foremost conservative weekly magazine. A French national, he studied history and semitics at the Sorbonne and the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations. Gurfinkiel is author of eight books and a frequent contributor to American media, including the Middle East Quarterly, Commentary, PJMedia, Wall Street Journal, and Weekly Standard.

Articles by this Author
Western leaders fail to recognize the similarities between the Islamic State and Hamas.
Will they head to Israel, or North America?
A sizable and growing part of France is in a state of virtual secession, if not virtual civil war.