Daniel Pipes - Director
Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. A former official in the U.S. Department of State, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. Mr. Pipes is the author of twelve books on the Middle East, Islam, and other political topics. He writes a bi-weekly column for the Jerusalem Post and other newspapers; his writings have been translated into 33 languages. Mr. Pipes frequently discusses current issues on television and radio. He has received two Presidential appointments, has testified before many congressional committees, and has served on five presidential campaigns. To see a complete listing of his writings, please visit http://www.danielpipes.org. Contact: Pipes@MEForum.org.
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Teri Blumenfeld - Website Editor and Researcher
Ms. Blumenfeld moderates website comments and assists with research. She was a founder of Meditran, an Arab-Israeli center in Jerusalem. She holds a BS from San Francisco State University and conducts research for terrorism trials. Contact: comments@danielpipes.org
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Troy Carey – Bookkeeper
Mr. Carey is the Forum’s bookkeeper and is responsible for all financial activity. He previously worked in property management and restaurant bookkeeping. Contact: Carey@MEForum.org
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Mary Ellen Cosaboon – Development Assistant
Ms. Cosaboon is the Forum’s Development Assistant and is responsible for office administration and membership services. She has previously worked for a number of arts and education nonprofits in the Philadelphia area. Contact: Cosaboon@MEForum.org
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Judy Goodrobb - Managing Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Ms. Goodrobb is the managing editor of the Middle East Quarterly, the Forum's flagship publication. Ms. Goodrobb previously worked as an editor at Drexel University and Norwich University. Contact: MEQ@MEForum.org
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Daniel Huff - Director, The Legal Project
Daniel Huff is a graduate of the Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He formerly served as counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee to Ranking Member Arlen Specter, where he handled numerous national security, civil, and criminal matters. Mr. Huff served at the forefront of many of the pitched battles over the proper balance between national security and individual rights. One of his many priorities as committee staff was the Free Speech Protection Act, designed to combat "libel tourism," the practice of intimidating U.S. authors by suing them for libel in foreign jurisdictions less protective of free speech rights. Prior to coming to Washington, Mr. Huff was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Contact: Huff@MEForum.org
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Raymond Ibrahim - Associate Director
Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum. He helps overseeing the Forums programs and 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.
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Grayson Levy - Web Developer
Mr. Levy is responsible for the Middle East Forum's internet presence, developing and maintaining its various websites and mailing lists. Contact: webmaster@MEForum.org
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Denis MacEoin - Editor, Middle East Quarterly
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.
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Ruth Malhotra - Campus Watch Research Assistant
Ruth Malhotra received a B.A. and M.A. in International Affairs with a research focus on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2006, she filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Georgia Tech challenging unconstitutional policies that supported censorship. Her case prompted Georgia Tech to repeal its speech code, alter its unconstitutional "speech zone" and eliminate the unconstitutional portion of its "Safe Space" program. She received the 2009 Ronald Reagan Award from the American Conservative Union. Contact: Malhotra@MEForum.org.
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Aaron Meyer - Assistant to Director, The Legal Project
Aaron Eitan Meyer is Assistant to Legal Project Director Brooke Goldstein. He received his B.A. from New School University, and recently, his J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. He is also Legal Correspondent for the Terror Finance Blog. Contact: Meyer@MEForum.org
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Winfield Myers - Campus Watch Director
Mr. Myers, a historian, was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane and the University of Michigan. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. Previously managing editor of the The American Enterprise magazine, he co-founded Democracy Project, Inc., of which he was CEO. He has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (Eerdmans: 1998; 2001). Contact: Myers@MEForum.org.
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Thelma Prosser - Office Manager
Ms Prosser has been the Forum's office manager for over seven years and plays a vital role in the day-to-day operation of our efforts. She previously worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute for twelve years. Contact: Prosser@MEForum.org
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Steven J. Rosen - Director, Washington Project
Steven J. Rosen joined the Forum as a Visiting Fellow in March 2009. He has served on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh, Brandeis University, and the Australian National University, and he headed Middle East issues for the RAND Corporation's National Security Strategies Program. He is the author of many academic publications, including The Logic of International Relations, a best-selling textbook that ran to five editions. From 1982 to 2005, he served as director of foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, where he was responsible for relations with the State Department, the National Security Council, and other executive branch agencies. He is the editor of MEF's Obama Mideast Monitor as well as its Policy Forum occasional papers, and is the director of the Forum's Washington Project. Contact: Rosen@MEForum.org.
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David J. Rusin - Research Associate, Islamist Watch
David J. Rusin investigates the interface between Western and Islamic culture for Islamist Watch. Prior to joining the Middle East Forum, Rusin worked as an astrophysicist, having earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Contact: Rusin@MEForum.org
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Amy Shargel - Managing Director
Ms Shargel oversees the administration of the Forum, which she helped to establish in 1994. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, from which she also received a master's degree in International Relations. Contact: Shargel@MEForum.org
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Cinnamon Stillwell - Campus Watch West Coast Representative
Ms. Stillwell, a San Francisco Bay area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, is a columnist and blogger. She is a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle online and has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education. She has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio. Contact: Stillwell@MEForum.org
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Patrick Clawson
Dr. Clawson is director for research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a senior editor for the Middle East Quarterly. 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. Contact: pclawson@washingtoninstitute.org
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Steven Emerson
Steven Emerson is considered one of the leading authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, one of the world's largest storehouses of archival data and intelligence on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Emerson frequently provides briefings to U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, members of Congress and congressional committees, and print and electronic media, both national and international.
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Robert D. Kaplan
Mr. Kaplan has been writing as a foreign correspondent for more than twenty years; his two-decades' worth of traveling and reporting experience -- much of which he has accumulated in the world's most difficult and dangerous places, including in the Middle East -- inform even his briefest contributions. He is author to many books, including The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite.
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Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer is Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and President-designate of Shalem College. He is also the Wexler-Fromer Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and National Security Studies Program Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Author of the best-selling monograph, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, he is on the editorial board of the Middle East Quarterly.
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Asaf Romirowsky
A former research fellow at the Middle East Forum, Asaf Romirowsky is the former manager of Israel & Middle East Affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Mr. Romirowsky holds a bachelors degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a masters degree from Villanova University in Middle Eastern studies. Mr. Romirowsky is currently a PhD candidate at Kings College London. Contact: Romirowsky@MEForum.org
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Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin, a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly, 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. Contact: mrubin@aei.org
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Jonathan Schanzer
A former research fellow at the Middle East Forum and former deputy executive director the Jewish Policy Center, Jonathan Schanzer is now Vice President of Research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has previously served as a counterterrorism analyst for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and a Research Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he authored the book Al-Qaeda's Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror. Mr. Schanzer holds a bachelors degree from Emory University and a masters degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Middle Eastern studies. Mr. Schanzer is currently a PhD candidate at Kings College London. Contact: js@defenddemocracy.org
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Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is the Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington, DC and author of the 2008 book The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony. In 2002, he published the bestselling The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role In Terrorism. He is also author of Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook. He was a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle for 10 years and was secretary of the Northern California Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, his extensive and authoritative writings on the phenomenon of Wahhabism established him as one of the leading global experts on Islam, its internal divisions, and its relations with other faiths. Contact: schwartz@islamicpluralism.org
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Joseph Morrison Skelly
Joseph Morrison Skelly is a scholar specializing in international terrorism, military affairs, and the contemporary Middle East. His latest volume is Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions (Praeger Security International, 2010). He writes frequently for scholarly journals and has studied counterterrorism operations in Israel and Northern Ireland. Mr. Skelly is an officer in the United States Army Reserve and has served in Iraq and Africa. Contact: joeskelly@hotmail.com
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