From the Middle East Quarterly

Who Rules Iran?
by Reza Molavi and K. Luisa Gandolfo

The Gulf States in the Shadow of Iran
by Patrick Knapp

Syria's Financial Support for Jihad
by Matthew Levitt

Steven Emerson: Combating Radical Islam
by George Michael

How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War
by Raymond Ibrahim

Syria's Path to Islamist Terror
by Michael Rubin

Dissident Watch: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
by Richard L. Benkin

review of Israel and the Family of Nations
by Seth J. Frantzman

MEF Articles

The Lure of Jihadism, or 'Boys Will Be Boys'
by Raymond Ibrahim :: February 3

How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran
by Daniel Pipes :: February 2

A Watershed Election
by Michael Rubin :: February 1

Islamist Lawfare Defeated in Texas
by Daniel Huff :: January 25

Why I Stand with Geert Wilders
by Daniel Pipes :: January 19

T. E. Lawrence, American Strategist
by Daniel Pipes :: January 18

Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport
by Daniel Pipes :: January 6

The System "Worked Really Very, Very Smoothly" in Detroit?
by Daniel Pipes :: December 28

Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On
by Raymond Ibrahim :: December 24

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In the Spotlight:

At the end of January, the US Treasury published the latest version of its terrorist list. They have taken all but one member of the Gaza-based terrorist entity Hamas off the list, a document of 443 pages.

• Aid for sale in Hamas' Gaza by Asaf Romirowsky and Nicole Brackman (March 4, 2009)
• Marching for Hamas by Denis MacEoin (January 22, 2009)
• The Hamas-Fatah War & Israeli Security by Jonathan Schanzer (November 3, 2008)
• Hamas' international strategy works by Michael Rubin (February 8, 2007)
• A Democratic Hamas? by Asaf Romirowsky (June 22, 2005)
• Hamas from Cradle to Grave by Matthew Levitt (Winter 2004)
• Hamas's Foreign Benefactors by Kenneth Katzman (June 1995)

MEF Wires: Audio recordings and summary accounts of top experts addressing the Forum at speaking events.