Middle East Forum
Facebook    Twitter    YouTube    Join Mailing List
  • Home
  • Projects
    • Campus Watch
    • Daniel Pipes
    • Islamist Watch
    • Israel Victory Project
    • The Legal Project
    • The Washington Project
  • Activities
    • Events
    • Education Fund
    • Educational Outreach
    • MEF Accomplishments
    • Campaigns
  • Middle East Quarterly
    • Current Issue
    • Issue Archive
    • About the MEQ
    • Submit Manuscript
    • Board of Editors
  • Media
    • Press Releases
    • MEF in the Media
    • MEF Wires
    • MEF Radio
    • MEF Webinars
  • Archives
    • Browse By Author
    • Browse By Topic
    • Archive
    • Book Reviews
    • Reports
    • Blog
  • About
    • Staff Bios
    • Writing Fellows
    • Board of Governors
    • Financial Information
    • Opportunities
    • Contact Us
  • Donate
  • Search
What the World Can Learn from Israel's Vaccination Drive

By the end of New Year's Day this year, Israel had administered more than 1 million vaccines to people, with more than 150,000 being vaccinated daily. The country aims to vaccinate 2 million by the end of January, with many...

Read More...

Why Big Tech Doesn't Censor Foreign Autocrats

Ever since Twitter suspended the account of US President Donald Trump, there have been many calls for Big Tech social-media platforms to apply the same scrutiny to foreign leaders, such as Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei. This talking...

Read More...

Twitter Removes COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Tweet by Iran's Khamenei

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories about vaccines for COVID-19. They are not effective, and there are "accelerating" instances of death and infection from them, a headline on...

Read More...

Turkey Pays the Price for Erdoğan's Reckless S-400 Gambit

The costs to Turkey of buying Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles have been enormous, both strategically and economically.

Read More...

Turkey Pro-government Media Claims 'Jews' Control America

Turkey's far-right pro-government media included an article on Friday asserting that US President-elect Joe Biden was brought to office by "Jewish controlled media organization and powerful Jewish lobbies" and that "Jewish...

Read More...

Turkey and Israel: Premature Optimism for Normalization

It has been more than a decade since Turkey and Israel, once strategic partners, broke up badly, with an angry Ankara passionately vowing to isolate Israel internationally. It has also been exactly four years since the two...

Read More...

Israel and India Test MRSAM Air Defense System

JERUSALEM — Israel Aerospace Industries and the Indian government's Defence Research and Development Organisation conducted a successful test of the MRSAM, a medium-range surface-to-air missile system. MRSAM was jointly...

Read More...

Is Israel Discriminating against Palestinians with Vaccine?

Seth Frantzman refutes the absurd claim that Israel is discriminating by not carrying out #COVID19 vaccinations in Gaza and West Bank.

Read More...

Spotlight: The Biden Administration

President-elect Joe Biden comes into office with a long track record on most public policy issues and an avowed determination to set a new course for the United States.

Middle East Forum staff, fellows, and commissioned specialists have closely studied his actions and statements on U.S. policy toward Israel, Iran, Turkey, and the Arab Gulf, as well as on Islamism and antisemitism. See the selections at right.

To keep abreast of this and other issues, sign up to the Middle East Forum mailing list.

Biden Must Not Reprise Obama's Middle East Policy
by Eric James Bordenkircher (Winter 2021)
Wave of 'Extra-Continental' Migrants Predicted in Biden's First Year
by Todd Bensman (Dec 18, 2020)
Daniel Pipes on the Biden Administration and the Middle East
(Dec 1, 2020)
Biden Should Allow Investigations of Academe's Foreign Funding Scandals to Proceed
by Winfield Myers (Nov 20, 2020)
The US Election: Preliminary Lessons for US Allies
by Alexander H. Joffe (Nov 16, 2020)
What Biden's Victory Means for Turkey
by Burak Bekdil (Nov 11, 2020)
How Biden Will Turn the Clock Back in the Middle East
by Philip Carl Salzman (Nov 10, 2020)
Biden Condemns Anti-Semitism While Ignoring Democrats Who Support It
by Benjamin Baird (Sep 12, 2020)
Joe Biden Courts Islam, not Muslims
by Mark Durie (Aug 12, 2020)
Deciphering Bidenese
by Daniel Pipes (Jun 15, 2020)
For Israel, Biden Will Prove Worse than Bernie
by Matthew Mainen (May 3, 2020)
Why Do Democrats Want to Save Iran's Theocracy?
by A.J. Caschetta (Apr 24, 2020)

The Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank, founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, promotes American interests in the Middle East and protects Western values from Middle Eastern threats.

In the Middle East, we focus on ways to defeat radical Islam; work for Palestinian acceptance of Israel; develop strategies to contain Iran; and deal with advancing anarchy. Domestically, the Forum emphasizes the danger of lawful Islamism; protects the freedoms of anti-Islamist authors and activists; and works to improve Middle East studies.

It achieves its goals in three main ways:

  • Operationally, exerting direct influence through its projects, each addressing a specific problem.

  • Intellectually, providing context, information, insights, and policy recommendations through the Middle East Quarterly, conference calls, staff and fellows writings, lectures, and media appearances — clearing a path to victory over opponents.

  • Philanthropically, distributing about $2 million annually in separately earmarked funds through our Education Fund, to about 75 groups and individuals working to promote the Forum's goals

Subscribe to the MEF Mailing List

Browse Articles by Topic

Latest Articles

What the World Can Learn from Israel's Vaccination Drive
Seth Frantzman
Turkey Pays the Price for Erdoğan's Reckless S-400 Gambit
Burak Bekdil
Twitter Removes COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Tweet by Iran's Khamenei
Seth Frantzman
Why Big Tech Doesn't Censor Foreign Autocrats
Seth Frantzman
Turkey Pro-government Media Claims 'Jews' Control America
Seth Frantzman

Latest Webinars

Najat Al Saied on the UAE's "People-to-People" Peace with Israel
Rep. Doug Lamborn: Congress Must "Keep the Biden Administration's Feet to the Fire" on Israel, Iran
Emmanuel Navon on Israel's 3,000-Year Diplomatic Heritage
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet on France and Islamism
Sign Up for Forthcoming Webinars

Latest Press Releases

Israel's Supreme Court Vindicates MEF
Job Announcement: Counter-Islamist Grid Associate
The 10 Most Widely Read Middle East Forum Articles of 2020

Latest MEQ Articles

UNRWA's Moment of Truth
Ron Schleifer and Yehudah Brochin
Is the Saudi Gender Gap Narrowing?
Ahmed H. Alrefai
"Godless Saracens Threatening Destruction": Premodern Christian Responses to Islam and Muslims
Daniel Pipes
Biden Must Not Reprise Obama's Middle East Policy
Eric James Bordenkircher
How Israel's Jewish Majority Will Grow
Yakov Faitelson

Support The Forum

Your support helps further our mission of educating Americans about the Middle East and influencing U.S. policy towards that region.

Donate Now

©1994-2021 The Middle East Forum   •   E-mail: info@meforum.org   •   Tel: 1 (215) 546-5406