From the Middle East Quarterly

review of A Vulcan's Tale
by Pratik Chougule

review of The Third Choice
by Mark Silinsky

review of Partition through Foreign Aggression
by Efraim Inbar

review of My Brother, My Enemy
by Raymond Ibrahim

review of Inside Insurgency
by Max Abrahms

review of Egypt: A Short History
by Raymond Ibrahim

review of Cutting the Fuse
by Max Abrahms

review of The Arab Lobby
by Steven J. Rosen

MEF Articles

Muslim Persecution of Christians: April, 2012
by Raymond Ibrahim :: May 18

Watching the new state of South Sudan fall into chaos
by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi :: May 18

Uncovering Early Islam
by Daniel Pipes :: May 16

U.S. Leads Effort to Criminalize Free Speech
by Ann Snyder :: May 16

Mexican Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim :: May 11

Jihad Comes to Egypt
by Raymond Ibrahim :: May 10

The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude
by David J. Rusin :: May 8

Chris Christie's Islam Problem
by Daniel Pipes & Steven Emerson :: May 1

Islam's Cartoon Missionaries
by Daniel Pipes :: April 17

It's Not Road Rage, It's Terrorism
by Daniel Pipes :: April 3

Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam
by Daniel Pipes :: March 26

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In the Spotlight:

Writing in the Middle East Quarterly's spring issue, Emanuele Ottolenghi took Professor Gary Sick's October Surprise thesis to task. In his article Ottolenghi unearthed new and previously unreported faults in Sick's research and further discredited the October Surprise.

Ottolenghi's piece underscores the sorry state of Middle Eastern studies in America where it takes more than two decades for someone to challenge a pivotal aspect of a far-fetched conspiracy that has been paraded around as scholarship. Predictably, Sick has responded on his blog and his Gulf 2000 list where he devotes more time to ad hominem attacks than to seriously refuting Ottolenghi's findings.

Ottolenghi has now written a rejoinder where he rebukes Sick's retort and addresses his new allegations.

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