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 the writings of Dr. Daniel Pipes, please visit http://www.danielpipes.org. For his complete resume, click here. Contact: Pipes@MEForum.org.
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Teri Blumenfeld - Research Manager, DanielPipes.org
Ms. Blumenfeld moderates the forums for DanielPipes.org and assists with research for Dr. Pipes. Ms. Blumenfeld 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 Forums 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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Rebecca Ferreira Projects Coordinator
Mrs. Ferreira coordinates projects for the Middle East Forum. A student of the ancient Near East, she holds an M.A. in history. Before joining the Forum, she was a lecturer of history at Anne Arundel Community College and has over six years of executive administrative experience. Contact: Ferreira@MEForum.org
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Brooke Goldstein - Director, The Legal Project
Brooke Goldstein, a practicing attorney, is director of the MEF's Legal Project. She received her B.A. from McGill and her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Goldstein is the founder and director of the Children's Rights Institute, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and the 2007 Recipient of the E. Nathaniel Gates Award for Outstanding Public Advocacy. Her recent film, "The Making of a Martyr" won the 2006 Audience Choice Award from the United Nations Film Festival. She has written for the American Spectator, the New York Daily News, Family Security Matters and has appeared on FOX News and CNN. Contact: Goldstein@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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Raymond Ibrahim - Associate Director
Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum. He helps overseeing the Forums programs and is associate 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 Al-Qaeda, terrorism, and radical Islam in general. He writes daily for JihadWatch.org. Mr. Ibrahim lectures and debates regularly and has briefed several organizations and agencies, including the Department of State and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He 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 - Webmaster
Mr. Levy is responsible for the Forum's internet presence, developing and maintaining its website 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 Kings 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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Asaf Romirowsky - Campus Watch Adjunct Scholar
A former research fellow at the Middle East Forum, Asaf Romirowsky is now the 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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Steven J. Rosen - Visiting Fellow
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. He is also the Philadelphia-based editor of Pajamas Media. Dr. Rusin earned a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania and has published more than thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Prior to joining the Forum, he held research positions at Harvard, Penn, and the University of California. Contact: Rusin@MEForum.org
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Jonathan Schanzer - Campus Watch Adjunct Scholar
A former research fellow at the Middle East Forum, Jonathan Schanzer is now director of policy for the Jewish Policy Center. 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: jschanzer@jewishpolicycenter.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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Supna Zaidi - Assistant Director, Islamist Watch
Supna Zaidi is assistant director of Islamist Watch. She is also editor-in-chief of Muslim World Today, which was the first American Muslim newspaper to fight against Islamisms encroachment in America. Ms. Zaidi received a B.A. in political theory and a B.A. in history of the Near East and Religion from the University of California, San Diego (1999) and J.D. from New York Law School (2003). After graduation from law school, Ms. Zaidi practiced family, deportation and asylum immigration in New York and New Jersey. Contact: Zaidi@MEForum.org.
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