Board of Editors

Editor – Denis MacEoin

Denis MacEoin received advanced degrees from Trinity College, Dublin, and Edinburgh University, and his Ph.D. in Persian/Islamic Studies from King’s College, Cambridge. He has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and publishes on the subject of radical Islam in the U.K. He is a member of the advisory council of the Centre for Social Cohesion, and writes a blog, A Liberal Defense of Israel. Contact: MacEoin@MEForum.org.

Publisher – Daniel Pipes

Dr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist at the New York Post and The Jerusalem Post. A former official in the departments of State and Defense, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. The author of fourteen books, his most recent book is Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics (Transaction Publishers, 2004). He is a frequent analyst on television and radio.

Deputy Publisher – Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim is deputy publisher of the Middle East Quarterly. Previously, Mr. Ibrahim worked closely with Middle East language materials, primarily Arabic, at the Near East Section of the Library of Congress. Editor/translator of The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007), Mr. Ibrahim is author to dozens of articles and essays dealing with radical Islam. He lectures and debates regularly, briefs agencies such as the Department of State and the Defense Intelligence Agency, and has testified before Congress. Mr. Ibrahim is studying toward a PhD in Medieval Islamic history at Catholic University. To see a complete listing of his writings, please visit www.raymondibrahim.com. Contact: Ibrahim@MEForum.org.

Senior Editor – Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin served as editor of the Middle East Quarterly from 2004-2009. He is a resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches domestic politics in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, Kurdish society, and Arab democracy. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He formerly served as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Dr. Rubin earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He has been a visiting lecturer at Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Universities of Sulaymani, Salahuddin, and Duhok (Iraqi Kurdistan), and Yale University.

Senior Editor – Patrick Clawson

Dr. Clawson is director for research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Previously, he held positions at the National Defense University, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Dr. Clawson is the author of several books and monographs focusing on economics and the Middle East. He has written op-ed articles and testified before Congressional committees more than a dozen times.

Managing Editor – Judy Goodrobb

Ms. Goodrobb has worked as an editor and public relations professional at Drexel University, Norwich University, and the Delaware County Association for Retarded Citizens. She has been a writing instructor at Johnson State College of Vermont and the Community College of Philadelphia. She is editor of the Delaware County Pledge Newsletter and a member of that organization's steering committee. Contact: MEQ@meforum.org.

Board of Editors

Fouad Ajami
Johns Hopkins University

Anthony Cordesman
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Khalid Durán
TransState Islam

David Fromkin
Boston University

Paul Henze
The RAND Corporation

Eliyahu Kanovsky
Bar-Ilan University

Geoffrey Kemp
Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom

Martin Kramer
The Shalem Center

Habib C. Malik
Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in Lebanon

James Phillips
The Heritage Foundation

Steven Plaut
University of Haifa

Dennis Ross
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Barry Rubin
The Global Research in International Affairs Center

Saliba Sarsar
Monmouth University

Robert B. Satloff
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Sabri Sayari
Georgetown University

Haim Shaked
University of Miami

Steven L. Spiegel
University of California, Los Angeles

Kenneth Stein
Emory University

Marvin Zonis
University of Chicago