MEF Wires

Middle East Forum Wires are summary accounts and audio recordings of MEF speaking events.

Wires are written by MEF staff and (when summary accounts) are generally not reviewed by the speaker.

To see a listing of forthcoming MEF events, please click here.

Audio, Video and Transcripts
Gregg Roman Testifies Before the Knesset on the Cost of Redeeming Hostages
The Mishnah Warns Against Redeeming Captives at Exorbitant Prices—Not from Callousness, but from Wisdom
December 24, 2025
Audio, Video and Transcripts
Eastern Mediterranean Contributions to Middle East Security
The Middle East Forum participated in a high-level panel on “Eastern Mediterranean Contributions to Middle East Security” at the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece.
April 18, 2025
Audio, Video and Transcripts
The Middle East: Harris and Trump Policies Explained
November 4, 2024
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Ahnaf Kalam
Fluttering Israel flag on crimson red sky with smoke pillars background. Israel problems concept.
Audio, Video and Transcripts
Israel’s Crucible: Forging a New Security Paradigm
Navigating Complex Threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Beyond in a Shifting Middle East Landscape
October 6, 2024
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Gregg Roman
Winfield Myers
Audio, Video and Transcripts
The Challenges of Countering Islamism in the West
May 17, 2023
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Sam Westrop
Winfield Myers
Audio, Video and Transcripts
Salvaging Our Universities in an Era of Intellectual Decadence
May 17, 2023
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Winfield Myers
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Hollie McKay
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November 6, 2026
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Amine Ayoub
Moroccan and U.S. forces train side by side in Tifnit, Morocco.
Middle East Forum Observer
Washington Should Embrace Morocco’s Atlantic Strategy
Morocco Is Developing Its Coast with Ports, Industrial Zones, Energy Infrastructure, and Trade Corridors
November 6, 2026
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Javier A. Hernández
The Democrats’ victory in Congress will enable them to hold hearings, launch inquiries and introduce legislative initiatives on Israeli policy, the war in Gaza, U.S. military aid, and the broader strategic relationship between the two countries.
Middle East Forum Online
Three Key Areas of Concern Emerge for an Increasingly Isolated Israel
The Implications of the Mid-Term Elections Will Go Far Beyond the Republicans’ Loss of Congress
November 5, 2026
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Giulio Meotti
Lustick has a long history of anti-Israel scholarship and activism. Image: University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Research
U. Penn’s Ian Lustick: Israel Is a ‘Rogue Regime’ with ‘No Right to Exist’
End ‘Crazy State’ Israel’s ‘Silent Apartheid’ with a Single State Solution
November 5, 2026
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Andrew E. Harrod
The Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) successfully launches a Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) from the flight deck while transiting the Arabian Gulf, Dec. 16, 2025.
Middle East Forum Online
The Doha Trap: How Iran Is Using Hormuz to Extort the West
The Diplomatic Push in Doha Is Not a Breakthrough in Regional Peacemaking
November 5, 2026
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Amine Ayoub
Too often, however, India refuses to flex its muscles and demand its diplomatic due. This can be bad at the best of times, but when its enemies gather, it can be a fatal mistake.
Middle East Forum Online
India Should Be Wary of Turkey’s Bid for the Next U.N. Chief
New Delhi Needs to Speak up Now and Demand That the Next U.N. Secretary-General Not Be Anti-India or Pursue Agendas Inimical to Peace in South Asia
November 5, 2026
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Michael Rubin
The Iranian poet and translator Bänoo Zan reports in the Index on Censorship that Western publishing houses and literary magazines are censoring Iranian dissent.
Middle East Forum Online
Iranian Dissidents Censored and Rejected in the West by Publishers Masquerading as Mullahs
A Sculpture Inscribed ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Commemorating the Iranian Women’s Uprising Was Censored by Macalester College
November 5, 2026
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Giulio Meotti
Who is Saeed Shehabi? A self-described human rights activist and longtime critic of Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy or a friend to the oppressive regime in Iran?
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Will U.K. Law Enforcement Act on Support for Hezbollah?
Bahraini Activist Group Eulogized Hassan Nasrallah in Now-Deleted Newsletter
November 5, 2026
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Dexter Van Zile
Amman, Jordan.
Middle East Forum Observer
Jordan Is Fighting Iran and the Brotherhood. Washington Should Take Notice
Amman Has Shot Down Tehran’s Missiles and Jailed the Brotherhood’s Financiers. America’s Strategy Has Not Caught Up
November 5, 2026
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Gregg Roman