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Staff
Daniel Pipes — President
A former official in the U.S. departments of State and Defense, Daniel Pipes 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 many newspapers and leading Internet sites; his writings have been translated into 35 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. Al-Qaeda invited him to convert, Edward Said called him an "orientalist," and Edward Kennedy borked him. To see a complete listing of his writings, please visit http://www.danielpipes.org. Contact: Pipes@MEForum.org
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Amy Shargel — Director
Ms Shargel helped to establish the Middle East Forum 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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Teri Blumenfeld — Website Editor and Researcher
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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Mary Ellen Cosaboon — Development Assistant
Ms Cosaboon received a Bachelor's degree in Film production and a Master's degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University. She previously worked for a number of arts and education nonprofits in the Philadelphia area. Contact: Cosaboon@MEForum.org
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Mr. Fink previously practiced with the Detroit law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC before embarking on a political career advising gubernatorial, congressional, secretary of state, attorney general and judicial campaigns. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan majoring in history, Mr. Fink received his law degree from Emory University. Contact: Fink@MEForum.org
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Judy Goodrobb — Managing Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Ms. Goodrobb previously worked as an editor and public relations professional at Drexel University and Norwich University. She has been a writing instructor at Johnson State College of Vermont and the Community College of Philadelphia. She holds a master's degree in writing from Vermont College. Contact: MEQ@MEForum.org
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Efraim Karsh — Principal Research Fellow and Chief Editor
Efraim Karsh edits the Middle East Quarterly, the Forum's flagship publication. A Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London, he has held various academic posts at Harvard and Columbia universities, the Sorbonne, the London School of Economics, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington D.C., and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Professor Karsh is the author of fifteen books, has appeared as a commentator on all the main British and American television networks, and has contributed over 200 articles to leading newspapers and magazines. Contact: Karsh@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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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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Winfield Myers — Director, Academic Affairs and Director, Campus Watch
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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Sam Nunberg earned a B.A. from McGill University and a J.D. from the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. Mr. Nunberg previously served as Deputy Director of Government Affairs for the American Center for Law and Justice as well as a Delegate to the U.N. for the European Centre for Law and Justice. Contact: Nunberg@MEForum.org
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Thelma Prosser — Office Manager
Ms Prosser previously worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute for twelve years. Contact: Prosser@MEForum.org
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Steven J. Rosen 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. Contact: Rosen@MEForum.org
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David J. Rusin — Research Fellow, Islamist Watch
Prior to joining the Forum, Mr. Rusin worked as an astrophysicist, having earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Contact: Rusin@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 several of her columns have been reprinted in high school and college textbooks. She has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio. Contact: Stillwell@MEForum.org
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Hillel Zaremba — Associate Director, Islamist Watch, and an Assistant Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Mr. Zaremba previously served as Curriculum Coordinator for Eyes on Israel, an educational project of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). Mr. Zaremba has also worked in the private and public sectors developing instructional materials for a variety of clients, including the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Coast Guard. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Near Eastern Studies and an M.A. from Yale University in Religious Studies. Contact: Zaremba@MEForum.org
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Fellows |
Daniel Doron — Associate Fellow
Daniel Doron is founder and director of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (ICSEP), a pro-market public policy think tank that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "indispensable to the success" of Israel's economic reforms in recent years. The late Milton Friedman called him "consistently ... farsighted in his evaluation of the Israeli economy." Also a man of letters, Doron has also ventured into literature, film, and journalism. He has published in the Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Weekly Standard, National Review, and elsewhere.
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Mark Durie — Associate Fellow
Rev. Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist and pastor of an Anglican church. He has published on the language and culture of the Acehnese (a Muslim people of Indonesia), Christian-Muslim relations, and religious freedom. Rev. Durie holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University and is a graduate of the Australian College of Theology. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA and Stanford, was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992, and awarded an Australian Centennial Medal in 2001 for contributions to linguistics. He has spoken for the Middle East Forum.
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Cynthia Farahat — Associate Fellow
Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. Co-founder of the Misr El-Umm (2003-06) and the Liberal Egyptian (2006-08) parties, which stood for peace with Israel, secularism, and anti-Islamism, she was under long-term surveillance by the State Security Intelligence Service before seeking political asylum in the United States in 2011. Ms Farahat worked with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Cairo, and the Center for Security Policy and Coptic Solidarity. She has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and received an award from the Endowment for Middle East Truth. She is co-author of two books in Arabic and, among other journals, has published in the Middle East Quarterly, National Review Online, and The Washington Times.
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Gary C. Gambill — Associate Fellow
Gary C. Gambill, formerly editor of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (1999-2004) and Mideast Monitor (2006-2009), is a political analyst specializing in the Arab world, particularly Syria and Lebanon. He has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy and The National Interest, among other publications. Contact: garycgambill@gmail.com
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David P. Goldman — Associate Fellow
David P. Goldman brings a unique perspective to the Middle East, focusing on economics, demography, and religion. He has served as global head of credit strategy for Credit Suisse (1998-2002), global head of debt research for Bank of America (2002-05), and senior editor at the magazine First Things (2009-2011). In 2001 he was elected to Institutional Investor Magazine's All-American Fixed Income Research Team. A regular guest on CNBC's Kudlow Report, Mr. Goldman has also frequently appeared on Fox News. He is the author of How Civilizations Die (and why Islam is Dying, Too (Regnery, 2011). He has contributed to many publications, including the Middle East Quarterly, Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal.
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Michel Gurfinkiel — Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow
Michel Gurfinkiel, a prominent scholar of European Islamism, Turkey, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, is president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, a Paris-based think tank he founded in 2003, and a former editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles, France's foremost conservative weekly magazine. A French national, he studied history and semiotics at the Sorbonne and the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations. Mr. Gurfinkiel is author of eight books and a frequent contributor to American media, including the Middle East Quarterly, Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Weekly Standard, and PJMedia.
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Lars Hedegaard — Associate Fellow
Lars Hedegaard is a historian, author, journalist and newspaper editor based in Copenhagen. Since 2004 he has been the President of The Danish Free Press Society and since 2007 of The International Free Press Society. In 2012 he co-founded the weekly newspaper Dispatch International, of which he is co-editor-in-chief. Trained as a historian at Aarhus University, Denmark, he has written extensively on twentieth century world history, politics and Islamic affairs. A former editor with the social science publisher Sage Publications in California, he went on to become a consultant to the Danish Trade Union Organization and the Nordic Council of Ministers before becoming a regular political commentator for the Copenhagen daily Berlingske Tidende.
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Raymond Ibrahim — Associate Fellow
Raymond Ibrahim is a Middle East and Islam specialist and Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Author of The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007), he previously served as associate director of the Middle East Forum (2009-11) and worked as a reference assistant at the Near East Section of the Library of Congress (2003-08). Mr. Ibrahim appears on television, briefs governmental agencies, provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and has testified before Congress. Mr. Ibrahim's writings, translations, and observations have appeared in the Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard. He has contributed articles to scholarly journals, including the Middle East Quarterly the Almanac of Islamism, and Middle East Review of International Affairs.
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Efraim Inbar — Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow
Efraim Inbar, a leading authority on Middle Eastern strategic affairs, is professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University and director of its Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center). He earned his undergraduate degree in English literature and political science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his postgraduate and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of Chicago. Prof. Inbar has held visiting posts at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A contributor to the Middle East Quarterly, his books include Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics (1991), Rabin and Israel's National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel's National Security (2008).
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Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi — Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow
Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, whose ancestry traces back to Baghdad and Mosul, is a student at Brasenose College, Oxford University, Mr. Tamimi's articles have been published, among other places, in the Middle East Quarterly, the American Spectator, Daily Star (Beirut), Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post, Kurdish Globe (Arbil, Iraqi Kurdistan), and al-Ayyam (Damascus).
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Alexander Joffe — Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow and an Assistant Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Alexander Joffe, a former director of the Forum's Campus Watch project, is a writer on Israel and Jewish affairs. Trained as an archaeologist and historian, he holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies from the University of Arizona and has participated and directed archaeological research in Israel, Jordan, Greece, and the United States. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University and the State University of New York, and has published over 150 scholarly articles and reviews on archaeology, ancient and modern history, political science, environmental studies, and cultural affairs. Mr. Joffe is a contributing writer with Jewish Ideas Daily, and his work has appeared in leading national and international newspapers including the Middle East Quarterly, Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post, Yediot Aharanot, Tablet, and Ha'aretz.
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Hilal Khashan — Associate Fellow
Hilal Khashan is a professor of political science at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of five books and more than 70 articles, in such publications as the Middle East Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Orbis, and Third World Quarterly. He is presently completing a book on Hezbollah's political leadership.
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Dawn Perlmutter — Associate Fellow
Dawn Perlmutter is a leading expert in religious violence and terrorism, including Islamist beheadings, honor killings, rapes and mutilations. She is an adjunct professor in the Forensic Medicine Department at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, holding a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University and a Masters Degree from The American University, Washington, D.C. She is the author of True Believers, A Symbolic Anthropological Study of Islamist Culture (CRC Press forthcoming 2014) and Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes (CRC Press 2004). Her writings have appeared in numerous publications, including an article on Muslim magic in the Middle East Quarterly (Spring 2013). She has been interviewed by The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, NBC, CBS, NPR, CBC, BBC, and The Learning Channel. Ms. Perlmutter routinely advises and trains law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, and presents expert witness testimony. She is founder and director of Symbol & Ritual Intelligence and a member of the distinguished Vidocq Society, an exclusive crime-solving organization. Contact: dperlmutter@symbolintelligence.com
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Wolfgang G. Schwanitz — Associate Fellow
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is a leading historian of the Middle East. A native of East Germany, he was raised in Egypt and obtained his doctorate in Middle Eastern Studies from Leipzig University. He has taught at five German and American universities, served as head of Middle Eastern history at the Academy of Science in Berlin and worked there at the Max Planck Society's Orient Center. He has been a visiting fellow at the French Center in Cairo, Princeton University and the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. The author of four and the editor of ten books, Mr. Schwanitz has published some 150 scholarly articles and over 400 newspaper and magazine pieces on modern Middle Eastern history and international relations. The Middle East Forum supported also archival research for his upcoming books on Islam in Europe, Revolts in the Middle East; German Middle Eastern Studies after 9/11; and Islamists, Nazis and the Modern Middle East.
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Ann Snyder — Legal Fellow
Ms. Snyder received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Snyder began her career as a litigator at Dechert, LLP in Philadelphia. She is currently a practicing attorney in Pennsylvania. Contact: Snyder@MEForum.org
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Marilyn Stern — Associate Fellow
A graduate of Philadelphia's Moore College of Art, Ms Stern earned an M.A. in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics (IWP) in Washington, D.C., and completed an Executive Certificate program at the Interdisciplinary Center's Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT). A longtime board member of the Middle East Forum and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) in Washington, D.C., Ms Stern has published articles for the Small Wars Journal and the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).
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Raymond Stock — Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow
Raymond Stock, an expert on Middle Eastern cultural and political affairs, lived in Cairo for 20 years (1990-2010). He has translated seven books by Egyptian Nobel laureate in literature Naguib Mahfouz, whose biography he is presently writing for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He was denied entry and deported from Egypt by the Mubarak regime in December 2010 due to his Foreign Policy Magazine article criticizing the bid by the explicitly anti-Semitic culture minister Farouk Hosni to head UNESCO. A former Guggenheim Fellow, with a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (including ancient through modern studies) from the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University. His articles and translations of Arabic fiction have appeared in Middle East Quarterly, Bookforum, The Financial Times, Harper's Magazine, International Herald Tribune, London Magazine, PJMedia, and many other venues.
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Steven Emerson — Associate Scholar
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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Martin Kramer — Senior Editor, Middle East Quarterly
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 — Associate Scholar
A former research fellow at the Middle East Forum, Dr. Romirowsky holds a bachelors degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a masters degree from Villanova University and a PhD from Kings College London. He is currently an adjunct scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and lecturers at Drexel University and Penn State University. Contact: Romirowsky@gmail.com
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Denis MacEoin — Senior 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@btinternet.com
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Michael Rubin — Senior Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Michael Rubin 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 in which capacity he trains U.S. forces deploying to Afghanistan and the Middle East and teaches aboard U.S. aircraft carriers deploying to the Persian Gulf. He previously serves as an Iraq and Iran country director for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, during which time he was seconded to Baghdad. Dr. Rubin earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and three universities in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Stephen Suleyman Schwartz — Associate Scholar
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. In 2009, CIP published the important study of shariah law agitation in the West, A Guide to Shariah Law and Islamist Ideology in Western Europe, 2007-09. 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 — Associate Scholar
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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