The Energy Plan Aims High but Will Falter Due to Iran’s Complexity, Corruption, and Inefficiency
Universities Wrestle With How To Confront Students for Justice in Palestine, With Responses Ranging From Payouts and Probation to Multi-Year Suspensions and Permanent Bans
CAIR Blames Israel for $8 Million in Security Grants Stripped from Extremist Groups Following MEF Report
Social Media Campaigns Urged People to Attend the Concert and Seize the Chance to Chant Anti-Government Slogans
Critics Warn of ‘Parallel Justice’
Cooperation Expands Ties and Improves Capacity for Cyprus, and Gives the U.S. a Reliable Partner with Ports and Airfields near Regional Crises
Securing Regional or International Backing Long Has Been a Defining Feature for All Major Actors of the Conflict
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Has Until the End of September to Decide Whether to Accept Western Conditions or Face U.N. Sanctions
It Is Troubling That Some Possible Candidates for Peace Treaties with Israel Are Parties to Human Rights Treaties That Call for Elimination of Zionism
Spotlight: Should Syria Be Decentralized?
The Sunni jihadists ruling Syria claim to have abandoned violence. But whether directly and through proxies, their role in a series of armed attacks on minorities is undeniable. Druze and Alawites have suffered horrific killings, with Kurdish regions also being hit. In response to this sectarian slaughter, some minority communities are demanding autonomy or federalism.
Does Syria have a future as a unified country governed from Damascus? Or would its many minority groups be better served by a decentralized system, if not the breakup of the country into smaller, self-governing polities protected by Israel or others? MEF’s staff and fellows are actively engaged in analyzing this issue, as this selection of their work shows.
Does Syria have a future as a unified country governed from Damascus? Or would its many minority groups be better served by a decentralized system, if not the breakup of the country into smaller, self-governing polities protected by Israel or others? MEF’s staff and fellows are actively engaged in analyzing this issue, as this selection of their work shows.
In Just Eight Months of Sunni Islamist Rule in Syria, Already Three Large-Scale Incidents of Sectarian Violence Have Taken Place
Middle East Quarterly - Current Issue
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.
Fall 2025 Volume 32: Number 4
Fall 2025 Volume 32: Number 4
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DHS: ‘We Take the Results of the MEF Report Very Seriously’ -
Moroccan Journalist Interrogated over Israeli Passport Stamps, Held 32 Hours without Food or Water in Calculated Act of Authoritarian Harassment -
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Is Ground Zero for Operatives from Qatar, Turkey, and Malaysia
Middle East Forum Observer
Founded in 2024, the Observer provides rapid analysis on leading Middle East developments, from Marrakech to Mashhad and the Bab el-Mandeb to the Black Sea.
Launched in 2006, Islamist Watch is a project of the Middle East Forum. We work to combat the ideas and institutions of lawful Islamism in the United States and throughout the West. Arguing that “radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution,” we seek to expose the Islamist organizations that currently dominate the debate, while identifying and promoting the work of moderate Muslims.
CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds.
Antisemitism
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A Myth Needs to Be Continually Retold and Revived to Stay Alive -
By Suspending Work Visas for El Al’s Israeli Security Staff, Macron Appeases Radicals Rather than Ensuring Aviation Safety -
Rife with Antisemitic Tropes, the Books Omit References to Hamas’s Slaughter of Israelis, the Holocaust, and Jordan’s Peace Treaty with Israel -
From Their Support for the Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) Movement, to Hosting Terrorists, to Accepting Terrorist Tainted Funding, Some of the Nation’s Top Universities Have Become Part of the Palestinian Resistance
Gaza
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The Very Fact That the IDF Has to Keep Returning to Areas in Which It Has Already Operated Underlines How Complex the Challenge Is -
Why Are So Many in the West Quick to Highlight Israeli Airstrikes but Slow to Highlight Hamas Repression of Palestinians? -
Called Repeatedly on Its Falsehood, the United Nations Responded Not with Correction, but with Changing the Definition of Famine to Fit Their Preferred Narrative
Islam
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Persian Gulf Countries in the Last Several Decades Have Built Mosques and Cultural Centers to Hold Sway in Europe and America -
This Is What Happens When You Think “the West” Is Just the Direction Where the Sun Sets -
If an Islamic Council Governed the Pilgrimage, Shi’i, Ibadi, and Other Muslim Communities Could Contribute to Ritual, Logistics, and Interpretation -
Today’s Islamism Promises Authenticity but Is Postmodern in Form, Postcolonial in Posture, and Pretends to Retrieve the Sacred Through the Techniques of the Profane
Muslims in the US
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Tarek Mehanna’s Time in Prison Did Not Lessen His Commitment to Radicalism -
Nearly Seven Months Have Elapsed Since an Illegal Immigrant from Mauritania Shot and Wounded a Visibly Orthodox Jewish Man in a Chicago Terror Attack -
The Biden Administration Didn’t Seem to Care Even When FBI-Watchlisted SIA Terrorists Were Netted in Record-Breaking Numbers, Many Accidentally Released
