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	Salvaging Our Universities in an Era of Intellectual Decadence by Winfield Myers May 17, 2023
	The Counter-Erdoğan Coalition: Taking on Turkey's Strongman by Cliff Smith May 17, 2023
	The Challenges of Countering Islamism in the West by Sam Westrop May 17, 2023
	Former Iran Prisoner XiYue Wang: Academic Perfidy and Diplomatic Appeasement Embolden the Islamic Republic by Cliff Smith May 16, 2023
	'All about Activism': Countering Foreign Influence in the West by Benjamin Baird May 16, 2023
	War Against ISIS and the Future of Syria: A Conversation with Sinam Mohamad by Jonathan Spyer May 16, 2023
	Islamism and Antisemitism in America by Asaf Romirowsky June 3, 2019
	What Is the Muslim Brotherhood? by Cynthia Farahat April 24, 2019
	President Trump's "Deal of the Century," Israel and Middle East Peace by EJ Kimball April 2, 2019
	Islamists Infiltrate the US Political System by Oren Litwin March 18, 2019
	Venezuela in Crisis: Iran's Poisonous Role by Joseph M. Humire March 2, 2019
	Antisemitism: An Ancient Demon Reemerges in Europe by Lisa Barbounis February 21, 2019
	Qatar: U.S. Ally or Global Menace? February 7, 2019
	Is Iran on the Brink of Economic Collapse? by Amir Taheri November 29, 2018
	Academics Who Whitewash Islamism: The Example of Georgetown University by Winfield Myers November 20, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism/Qatar's Malign Influence on the West (Ep. 14) Episode 14
	MEF Sentry Radio: The Israel Victory Project/ Middle East Studies on U.S. Campuses (Ep. 13) Episode 13
	MEF Sentry Radio: Iran Penetrates Latin America / Khashoggi Reveals Saudi Arabia (Ep. 12) October 17, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: Investigating a Terror-Linked Charity and Assessing the Iraqi Government (Ep. 11) October 10, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: MEF Investigators (Ep. 10) October 3, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: Impacts of Syria's Civil War (Ep. 9) September 26, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: A New Paradigm for Ending the Middle East Conflict (Ep. 8) September 19, 2018
	Israeli Regional Power and the Struggle over the Spoils of the Syrian War by Gregg Roman September 18, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: The Stealth Jihad of "Islamophobia" (Ep. 7) September 12, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: The Global Spread of Mideast Terror Groups (Ep. 6) September 5, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: Radical Islamists Below America's Radar (Ep. 5) August 29, 2018
	Whither Turkey? Erdoğan's Predicament Moving Forward by Aykan Erdemir August 28, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: Politicizing Islam (Ep. 4) August 22, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: UNRWA, Islam in Russia, and Bias on Campus (Ep. 3) August 15, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: The Islamist Threat at Home (Ep. 2) August 8, 2018
	MEF Sentry Radio: Global Security Perspectives (Ep. 1) August 1, 2018
	Migration to Europe Becomes a Crisis by Daniel Pipes July 31, 2018
	The Israel Victory Project: "25 Years Since Oslo, Time for New Thinking" by Gregg Roman July 3, 2018
	Israel's Gaza Policy by Gershon Hacohen July 3, 2018
	What Just Happened to the Iran Deal? by Mark Dubowitz May 15, 2018
	Making Sense of Israel's Political Upheaval by Gregg Roman April 3, 2018
	Making Sense of Israel's Political Upheaval by Shmuel Sandler March 27, 2018
	Syria's Post-ISIS Future by Hillel Frisch January 3, 2018
	The Knesset Israel Victory Caucus by Oded Forer November 8, 2017
	Can Extreme Vetting Work? by Clifford Smith November 1, 2017
	Jordan at the Edge by David Schenker September 12, 2017
	The Impact of Jihadi Attacks on the British Elections by Sam Westrop July 5, 2017
	U.S.-Israel Relations in the Trump Era by Elliott Abrams June 15, 2017
	Is Trump Keeping His Mideast Promises? by Gregg Roman May 11, 2017
	The Trump Administration Searches for a MidEast Policy by Thomas Parker March 16, 2017
	The Fall of Aleppo by Fabrice Balanche February 7, 2017
	The Trump Administration's Foreign Policy by Douglas J. Feith January 12, 2017
	Russia's Growing Middle Eastern Prowess by Anna Borshchevskaya November 17, 2016
	The Death of Atatürk's Vision by Svante E. Cornell September 6, 2016
	Is Israel More Accepted in the Middle East? by Efraim Inbar July 20, 2016
	French Islamism and the Future of Europe by Guy Millière July 11, 2016
	Iraq's Uncertain Future by Amatzia Baram May 23, 2016
	The Syrian Quagmire by Andrew J. Tabler April 12, 2016
	The Saudi/Iranian Tug-of-War by Joshua Teitelbaum February 16, 2016
	The ISIS/Iran Conundrum by Lee Smith December 29, 2015
	Putin's Middle Eastern Moves by Ilan Berman October 26, 2015
	Egypt's Two Years Under Sisi by Raymond Stock September 8, 2015
	An Emerging Kurdistan by Ofra Bengio August 3, 2015
	The New Israeli Government by Steven J. Rosen June 24, 2015
	The Saudi-Iranian Proxy War in Yemen by Jonathan Spyer April 30, 2015
	The Islamist Terror Attacks in France by Michel Gurfinkiel January 27, 2015
	Israeli Elections and U.S. Relations by Eytan Gilboa, Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University. December 17, 2014
	The U.S. Strategy to Defeat ISIS by Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. October 6, 2014
	The Third Gaza War by Efraim Inbar, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and director of Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. August 12, 2014
	What does the fall of Mosul mean? by Daniel Pipes June 16, 2014
	UNRWA - Providing Humanitarian Relief or Prolonging the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Alexander H. Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky May 19, 2014
	The Hamas-Fatah Unity Deal by Steven J. Rosen, Director of the MEF's Washington Project and former foreign-policy director of AIPAC. May 1, 2014
	Middle East Forum: 20th Anniversary Lunch April 10, 2014
	Speech on Nazis, Islamists, and the Modern Middle East by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz April 10, 2014
	The Quakers and Palestinian Refugee Relief by Alexander H. Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky March 7, 2014
	Turkey's Forthcoming Elections by Burak Bekdil, columnist for the Ankara-based Hurriyet Daily News. March 7, 2014
	Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Iraq's Anbar Province by Bing West, Marine infantry officer, Vietnam combat veteran, and assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. January 23, 2014
	Geneva's Impact on Saudi Arabia by Simon Henderson December 17, 2013
	The Muslim Brotherhood's Jihad against the Coptic Church by Raymond Stock November 13, 2013
	Egypt's Continuing Turmoil by Jonathan Spyer, associate fellow at the MEF and senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel. October 31, 2013
	The Congressional Debate on Syria by Danielle Pletka September 10, 2013
	Egypt in Political Crisis by Raymond Stock July 30, 2013
	Egypt's Looming Economic Ruin by David P. Goldman, author, economist, noted demographer, and associate fellow with the Middle East Forum. May 30, 2013
	The Implications of Obama's Foreign Policy Team for the Middle East by Jonathan S. Tobin, senior online editor of Commentary* magazine.* March 20, 2013
	America's Withdrawal from the Middle East under the Obama Doctrine by Lee Smith, senior editor with the Weekly Standard and Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. February 6, 2013
	Israel and the Palestinians by Steven J. Rosen December 17, 2012
	The Arab Spring and Egypt's Nuclear Weapons Program by Raymond Stock November 16, 2012
	The Huge Impact of Israel's Energy Reserves by Lawrence Solomon, executive director of the public policy institute, Energy Probe Research Foundation. November 8, 2012
	The Jihad Against Christians in the Middle East by Raymond Ibrahim October 12, 2012
	Israel's Foreign Policy Challenges by Danny Danon, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Chairman of World Likud. September 24, 2012
	Did Muhammad Exist? by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch. April 24, 2012
	Iran's Growing Presence in Latin America by Ilan Berman April 23, 2012
	Preventing a Nuclear Iran by Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. March 19, 2012
	U.S. Policy Options in Syria by Gary C. Gambill, former editor of the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. February 27, 2012
	Uncovering Saddam's Secrets by Joseph Sassoon, adjunct professor of Middle East studies at Georgetown University and author of "Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime". January 26, 2012
	Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom? by Mark Durie, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. January 18, 2012
	Islamic Civilization is Dying by David P. Goldman, best known for his "Spengler" column at Asia Times Online, which draws a million readers a month. November 15, 2011
	The Changing Middle East: An Insider's Perspective by Danny Yatom, IDF Major General (Ret.) and former head of the Mossad Intelligence Service. November 14, 2011
	Challenges Facing the States of North Africa by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Principal Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. November 3, 2011
	Middle East Upheavals and Israel by Efraim Inbar, professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and director of its Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. October 27, 2011
	Why Lebanon Matters by Michael J. Totten, a foreign policy analyst who has reported from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus.. May 23, 2011
	The Strategic Significance of Damascus by Jonathan Spyer, a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Israel, and columnist for the Jerusalem Post. May 16, 2011
	Egypt: At the Crossroads by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, and visiting professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Harvard University. April 7, 2011
	NGO Attempts to Demonize and Isolate Israel by Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor and a professor at the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan University. March 14, 2011
	Military Intervention in Libya Serves No U.S. Interests by Dirk Vandewalle, professor of government at Dartmouth College and author of "A History of Modern Libya". March 11, 2011
	The Future of Egypt and the Region by David Bukay, professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa and author "Arab-Islamic Political Culture". February 14, 2011
	Does the Arab World Truly Want a "Palestine"? by Efraim Karsh, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and Professor of Middle East & Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. January 25, 2011
	Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom? by Mark Durie, theologian, human rights activist, and pastor of an Anglican church in Australia. January 20, 2011
	Wikileaks Revelations: More Good than Bad? by Lee Smith, visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. December 28, 2010
	The Battle for Iraq by Amatzia Baram, professor in the Department of the History of the Middle East and director of the Center for Iraq Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. October 28, 2010
	Islamists' Twin Assault on Free Speech by Daniel Huff, director of the Middle East Forum's Legal Project. October 28, 2010
	Engaging Damascus: A Bad Idea by David Schenker, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and former Pentagon top policy aide on the Arab countries of the Levant. October 14, 2010
	My Battle for the Truth Against the French Establishment by Philippe Karsenty, deputy mayor of Neuilly, France. October 12, 2010
	Obama's Failed Middle East Policy by Efraim Karsh, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. August 24, 2010
	The Islamization of Turkey by Zeyno Baran, director of the Hudson Institute Center for Eurasian Policy, and formerly director of the International Security and Energy Programs at the Nixon Center. June 15, 2010
	Criticizing Israel, Outside of Israel by Steven J. Rosen and Peter Beinart June 4, 2010
	The Israel Test by George Gilder, a leading intellectual and advocate for Israel, free markets, and technological innovation, and former speechwriter for several Republican candidates. May 25, 2010
	Defeating Nonviolent Jihad by David J. Rusin, director of Islamist Watch. May 24, 2010
	How Islamists Turned the World Upside Down by Melanie Phillips, a journalist who writes for the Daily Mail and author of the best-selling Londonistan. May 10, 2010
	U.S.-Israel Relations in Crisis by Steven J. Rosen, director of the Forum's Washington Project. April 21, 2010
	Can People-Power Defuse Iran's Nuclear Threat? by Raymond Tanter, President of the Iran Policy Committee, lecturer on terrorism and weapons proliferation at Georgetown University, and former White House National Security Council member. March 10, 2010
	How the Mubarak Regime Enables the Persecution of Egypt's Copts by Magdi Khalil, an Egyptian-born human rights activist, prominent figure on Arabic media, and director of the Middle East Freedom Forum. February 26, 2010
	"Detoxifying Islamists" by Haras Rafiq, a director of CENTRI, an organization focused on countering extremism at the operational level. January 27, 2010
	Political Correctness and Fort Hood by Shannen Rossmiller, former judge and pioneer of cyber counter-terrorism, whose work has led to the capture of several Al-Qaeda operatives. December 15, 2009
	Moderate Islam: Western Ally or Western Myth? by Daniel Pipes and Wafa Sultan December 1, 2009
	Tehran's Domestic and International Fronts by Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. November 4, 2009
	"The Muslim World Needs Reform" by Wafa Sultan, Syrian-born psychiatrist and author of "A God Who Hates". October 20, 2009
	The War in Afghanistan by Joseph C. Myers, Deputy Director of the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Nexus Afghanistan, and career Infantry and Foreign Area Officer. September 29, 2009
	Raymond Ibrahim's Muslim charity debate August 25, 2009
	New Middle East Polling Data by Adam Pechter, founder of Pechter Middle East Polls and former deputy publisher of the Middle East Quarterly. August 13, 2009
	The Situation of Post Election Iran by Ali Alfoneh, visiting research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Copenhagen. July 21, 2009
	Is Jihad Outdated? How Islamists Work the System by Steven Emerson, founder and executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. June 4, 2009
	The Iranian Presidential Elections by Patrick Clawson, deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a leading specialist on Iran. June 4, 2009
	Islamist Terrorism, Terror and Iraq by Shimshon Issaki, a leading expert on Islamic terrorism and retired IDF brigadier general. April 30, 2009
	Israel and the Iranian Bomb by Steven J. Rosen, director of the Forum's Washington Project, and director of foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee from 1982 to 2005. April 27, 2009
	Turkish-Israeli Relations by Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an expert on Turkish-Israeli relations. April 3, 2009
	Resisting Stealth Jihad by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and the author of Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs. March 9, 2009
	The 2009 Israeli Elections by Allen Roth, founder of "One Jerusalem" and former senior advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu. February 12, 2009
	Resisting Stealth Jihad by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and the author of Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs. January 14, 2009
	Wishful Thinking and Iran by Steven J. Rosen, former director of foreign policy issues at AIPAC for more than two decades. November 10, 2008
	The Hamas-Fatah War & Israeli Security by Jonathan Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center, and former counterterrorism analyst for the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury. November 3, 2008
	Jihad on Trial by Andrew C. McCarthy, director of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of Willfull Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad. October 6, 2008
	The Secret War With Iran by Ronen Bergman, senior security and intelligence correspondent for Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, and author of The Secret War with Iran. September 11, 2008
	"My Pentagon Years" by Douglas J. Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy in the Bush administration, and professor of national security policy at Georgetown University. May 8, 2008
	What's at Stake for the West in Lebanon? by David Wurmser, former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, and author of Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein. March 6, 2008
	Culture and Conflict in the Middle East by Philip Carl Salzman, author of the book, "Culture and Conflict in the Middle East". January 29, 2008
	Jihad and the Presidential Candidates: An Assessment by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and author of two New York Times bestsellers. December 11, 2007
	America's Flawed Ideas in the Middle East by Martin Kramer, author of "Ivory Towers on Sand" and is the Senior Middle East Advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani. October 29, 2007
	The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis by Alireza Jafarzadeh, author of the book "The Iran Threat", and former US spokesman for the National Coalition of Resistance of Iran. September 12, 2007
	The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, co-authors of the book "Foxbats Over Dimona". June 6, 2007
	Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden, journalist and author of "Guests of the Ayatollah". April 19, 2007
	My Year Inside Radical Islam by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior consultant for the Gerard Group International. March 5, 2007
	The Threat to Israel's Existence: Why It's Back, What It Means by Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum. February 15, 2007
	My Vision for Israel by Avigdor Lieberman, minister of strategic affairs and deputy prime minister of Israel. December 12, 2006
	Righteous Muslims by Robert Satloff, executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. December 11, 2006
	The Palestinian Authority's Double Game: Preach Peace and Incite War by Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). November 21, 2006
	Londonistan by Melanie Phillips, prominent British journalist, recipient of the Orwell Prize, and author of six books. November 15, 2006
	Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews by David Pryce-Jones, senior editor of National Review. November 2, 2006
	Energy Alternatives and the War on Terror by R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence. October 30, 2006
	How is Israel's Economy Withstanding the Test of War by Ron Dermer, Israel's Minister of Economic Affairs in the United States. October 24, 2006
	Are Professors Promoting Anti-Israel Attitudes on Campus? by James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University. September 10, 2006
	Londonistan: Radical Islam and the Disintegration of British Society by Melanie Phillips, a prominent British journalist and author of six books and the recipient of the Orwell Prize for journalism. May 17, 2006
	The Case for America as "Goliath" by Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.. April 28, 2006
	America's Place in the World by Anthony Zinni, a former Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) and President George W. Bush's special envoy to the Middle East in 2002. April 10, 2006
	Can the United Nations Be Helpful in the Middle East? by John Bolton, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. March 21, 2006
	Can Arabs Be Democrats? by Barry Rubin, editor of the Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center at the Global Research in International Affairs in Israel. December 9, 2005
	The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege by Kenneth Levin, is the author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege. September 26, 2005
	Dealing with the Iranian Threat by Patrick Clawson, deputy director for research of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. September 16, 2005
	Tehran Rising by Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. September 14, 2005
	Leaving Gaza: Is the Withdrawal good for Israel? by Meyrav Wurmser, director of the Center for Middle East Policy and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. June 28, 2005
	How the Lebanese Won Their Freedom Back by Walid Phares, professor of Middle East studies at Florida Atlantic University and a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. May 19, 2005
	Iraq and the Importance of the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Scandal by Claudia Rosett, an investigative journalist with the Wall Street Journal and journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. May 3, 2005
	Lessons from the Counter-terrorism War by Boaz Ganor, founder of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and deputy dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. April 8, 2005
	Iran's nuclear ambitions & U.S. options by Michael Eisenstadt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and director of its Military and Security Studies Program. March 16, 2005
	Eurabia - Europe's Future? by Bat Ye'or, a historian who has published groundbreaking works on minorities and. February 7, 2005
	Is Israel Important? by Bret Stephens, a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post. January 19, 2005
	An Unbridgeable U.S./Europe Divide? by Robert Kagan, director of the U.S. Leadership Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. December 14, 2004
	Internment: A Tool in the War on Terror? by Michelle Malkin, a syndicated columnist and author of two books. December 2, 2004
	Arafat: Funding the Terror by Matthew Rees, Jerusalem bureau chief of Time magazine since 2000. November 22, 2004
	Ending America's Dependence on Middle East Oil by Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington, D.C. October 27, 2004
	Iraq, a test case for democracy? by Michael Rubin, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and a resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. October 12, 2004
	Draining Terror's Financial Swamps by Douglas Farah, a consultant, freelance writer on terror finance and national security matters, and a senior fellow at the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. October 11, 2004
	The Islamist Challenge to American Security by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. September 22, 2004
	Israel's Creation: The Untold Diplomatic Story by Daniel Mandel, associate director of the Middle East Forum. June 15, 2004
	Terror and Democracy in the Middle East by Michael Ledeen, an expert on U.S. foreign policy and the Freedom Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. May 20, 2004
	Telling the Truth about the Palestinians by Khaled Abu Toameh, West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. April 27, 2004
	Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America by Kenneth R. Timmerman, investigative reporter and best-selling author. April 21, 2004
	Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and member of the presidentially-appointed board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. March 23, 2004
	How to Regain Momentum in the War on Terror by David Frum, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and former presidential speechwriter. February 17, 2004
	If Hamas Inherits the Palestinian Authority by Shmuel Bar, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel. February 3, 2004
	Shutting Down Terrorist Financing by David Aufhauser, former chief legal advisor to the U.S. Treasury and senior policy advisor to the secretary.. December 11, 2003
	Arafat's War by Efraim Karsh, Director of Mediterranean Studies at King's College, University of London. December 2, 2003
	Taking Baghdad: A First-hand Account by Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, commander of the 2-7 Infantry, distinguished military graduate of Campbell University, winner of the Bronze Star for valor. November 20, 2003
	Financing Palestinian Terror by Ilka Schröder, Member of European Parliament and winner of the Theodore Lessing Prize for Exemplary Action. October 31, 2003
	Turning Off the Tap of Terrorist Funding by Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy. September 19, 2003
	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, visiting professor of literature at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in the study of Iran, Middle East culture, and human rights. June 6, 2003
	Saudi Abductions and the Betrayal of American Families by Patricia Roush, executive director of the Center for Children's Issues, a San Francisco-based advocacy organization specializing in international child abductions. May 20, 2003
	The Syrian Occupation of Lebanon by Gary C. Gambill, research associate at the Middle East Forum and a consultant to Freedom House. May 13, 2003
	The Current Crisis Through the Eyes of the Greeks by Victor Davis Hanson, professor of classics at California State University in Fresno. May 6, 2003
	The Iraq War: How It Was Seen in the Middle East by Jonathan Schanzer, Soref fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. April 21, 2003
	The Saudi State and Terrorism by Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. April 4, 2003
	Saudi Arabia and the Rise of the Wahhabi Threat by Stephen Schwartz, senior policy analyst with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies based in Washington, DC. February 27, 2003
	The Threat Posed by Hezbollah by Eyal Zisser, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and African history at Tel Aviv University. November 26, 2002
	Saudi Arabia's Links to Terrorism by Laurent Murawiec, French author, journalist, professor and policy consultant & analyst. November 19, 2002
	Understanding the Jihad against America by Bat Ye'or, author of several books on the life of minorities under Muslim rule. October 24, 2002
	Arafat's Links to Terrorism by Joseph M. Hoeffel, U.S. Representative currently serving his second term representing Pennsylvania's 13th district. June 3, 2002
	Turkey, A Partner In The War On Terror by Faruk Loğoğlu, Turkey's Ambassador to the United States. May 31, 2002
	Iraqi WMD and the U.N. Plan of Action by Hans Blix, Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring and Verification Inspection Committee (UNMOVIC), the agency that monitors Iraqi weapons.. May 10, 2002
	Making Sense of the Six-Day War by Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and former director of Israel's Department of Inter-Religious Affairs. May 6, 2002
	Leaders and Followers: Sources of Terrorism by Anthony Lake, assistant to former President Clinton on national security affairs from 1993 to 1997. March 21, 2002
	Middle East Studies Fails in America by Martin Kramer, Editor of the Middle East Quarterly. March 14, 2002
	Global Jihad and America's War by Bat Ye'or, author of several books on the life of minorities under Muslim rule. February 19, 2002
	After Afghanistan: Iraq by Barham Salih, Prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Sulayimania, Iraq. October 17, 2001
	Turkey's Place in the War against Militant Islam by Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times bureau chief in Instanbul. October 17, 2001
	Sanctions Have Helped Northern Iraq by Michael Rubin, author of Into the Shadows. July 10, 2001
	The Implications of Intifada II by Yuval Steinetz, Israeli parliament member. May 29, 2001
	A Report on Arab America by Joseph Farah, CEO of WorldNetDaily.com. May 18, 2001
	The Struggle for the Temple Mount by Gershom Gorenberg, author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. May 2, 2001
	Saddam's Bombmaker by Khidhir Hamza, former director general of Saddam Husayn's nuclear program and co-author of. April 2, 2001
	Dealing with Saddam Husayn by R. James Woolsey, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Clinton administration from 1993-1995. March 7, 2001
	Can Arabs Join the World Economy? by Patrick Clawson, Director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. March 1, 2001
	Iraqi Opposition Leaders: The Evil of Saddam by Sharif Ali al-Hussein, Ahmed Chalabi and Sheikh Mohammed Mohammed Ali, leaders of the Iraqi National Congress. February 12, 2001
	Jousting Over Oslo by Stephen Cohen and Daniel Pipes, founder and president of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development and National Scholar of the Israel Policy Forum (Cohen), and the director of the Middle East Forum (Pipes). February 5, 2001
	Slavery in the Sudan by John Eibner, assistant to the international president of the Geneva-based Christian Solidarity International (CSI). November 7, 2000
	The Israeli-Palestinian Crisis by Aaron Miller, former Deputy Special Coordinator for Middle Eastern Affairs at the State Department. October 26, 2000
	Edward Said and Me by Justus Reid Weiner, a scholar-in-residence with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. September 20, 2000
	Spurring Economic Growth in the Middle East: What Needs to Be Done? by Inder Sud, Director of the Middle East Department at the World Bank since 1995. September 6, 2000
	Post-Zionism and Israeli Politics by Limor Livnat, a member of the Israeli Knesset and former Minister of Communications. August 17, 2000
	Lebanon and Syria in a New Era by Colonel Charbel Barakat and Daniel Pipes, former deputy commander of the South Lebanon Army (Barakat), and director of the Middle East Forum (Pipes). June 15, 2000
	The Greatest Threat by Richard Butler, former director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) in 1997-99. April 13, 2000
	The View from Kuwait by Shafeeq N. Ghabra, director of the Kuwait Information Office in Washington and a distinguished academic who teaches politics at Kuwait University. March 18, 2000
	U.S. Interests and Turkey by Marc Grossman, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. March 13, 2000
	Arabs and Israelis: The View from Jerusalem by Ehud Olmert, mayor of Jerusalem since 1993. February 17, 2000
	Is a Syria-Israel Treaty Good for the United States? by Richard Murphy and Daniel Pipes, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign (Murphy) and president of the Middle East Institute, and Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum (Pipes). January 28, 2000
	Can the United Nations Fix the Middle East? by Barbara Crossette, United Nations bureau chief for The New York Times and author of three well-received books on South Asia. January 12, 2000
	Slavery in the Middle East by Charles Jacobs, Moctar Teyeb and Samuel Cotton, three experts on the issue. December 8, 1999
	The Multiple Identities of the Middle East by Bernard Lewis, professor emeritus at Princeton University and author of twenty books. November 16, 1999
	Is Turkey Still an Ally? by Sabri Sayari, executive director of the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University. May 7, 1997
	Pessimism and Optimism in Israel by Efraim Inbar, Barry Rubin and Shmuel Sandler, a panel discussion. April 16, 1997
	A Very Bad Agreement, but the Only Agreement Possible by Joel Singer, legal advisor to Israel's Foreign Ministry in its negotiations with the Palestinians. March 19, 1997
	A Pessimist's View of the Peace Process by Yigal Carmon, a former advisor to Prime Ministers Shamir, Rabin, and Netanyahu. February 13, 1997
	Why the Hebron Agreement is Important by Herbert Leisenberg, a Philadelphia Attorney and member of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Forum, reporting on a discussion with Aaron Miller, deputy to then Middle East Envoy Dennis Ross.. January 15, 1997
	The Establishment's Power by Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum. January 6, 1997
	Is The New Israel Really New? by Gideon Samet, Consul General of Israel, and a leading journalist and intellectual. December 9, 1996
	What does it mean to be haunted by one's past? by Bernard Lewis, professor emeritus at Princeton University and the author of twenty books. October 1, 1996
	Israel after the Elections by Amos Perlmutter, a professor of Political Science and Sociology at American University and a leading specialist on political and military affairs. June 18, 1996
	From the Belly of the Beast by Saad al-Bazzaz, a defector from Saddam Husayn's Iraq, who previously served as head of the Iraqi Radio and Television Establishment and editor of one of Baghdad's main daily newspapers. May 16, 1996
	The Fundamentalist Phenomenon by Judith Miller, a writer for the New York Times. April 23, 1996
	"New" Middle East or Old by Samuel Lewis, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel. April 16, 1996
	The Hidden World of Muslim Women by Geraldine Brooks, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and now a freelance writer. February 26, 1996
	Saddam vs. the Kurds by Barham Salih October 15, 1994