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UNRWA's Moment of Truth

Seventy years after its founding with an 18-month mandate to provide emergency aid to the "Palestine refugees," the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has grown into a...

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Is the Saudi Gender Gap Narrowing?

Saudi Arabia has enthusiastically endorsed the United Nations' "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,"[1] adopted by the General Assembly in September 2015, but in general, the agenda's ambitious goals have not been met in...

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"Godless Saracens Threatening Destruction": Premodern Christian Responses to Islam and Muslims

In a conversation that apparently took place on July 13, 634, just two years after Muhammad's death, an old man was asked what he made of "the prophet who has appeared among the Saracens?" He replied that Muhammad "is an imposter...

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Biden Must Not Reprise Obama's Middle East Policy

By all indications, Joe Biden intends to reboot Obama's Middle East policy if elected president. Eric James Bordenkircher explains why this would be a disaster.

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Erdoğan's New Charm Offensive: Bogus Democratic Reforms

It is his favorite cycle: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recklessly widens Turkey's democratic deficit, weakens institutions, refuses to acknowledge democratic checks and balances. He isolates Turkey mostly from its Western...

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Islamist Lawfare and the Case of Sam Westrop

Clifford Smith and Martha Lee discuss how Islamists have exploited the weak free speech protections in U.K. libel laws to harass and smear their critics.

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De l'instrumentalisation de la justice britannique par les islamistes tunisiens

La récente décision en faveur de Harrath est maintenant exploitée par un groupe lié à la Jamaat-e-Islami au Pakistan, qui a distribué un rapport faisant état de la victoire juridique de Harrath aux membres de la Chambre des Représentants américaine, dans l'espoir de décourager les politiciens américains de se pencher sur ses propres liens avec certains mouvements islamistes radicaux.

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Who Will Utter the Words 'Islamist Terrorism?'

While the whole world unites in the struggle to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, another scourge continues to spread unabated, morphing itself into death and destruction with few willing to even name it, let alone confront...

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Spotlight: Trump vs. Biden

The 2020 U.S. presidential election is rare in pitting against each other two candidates with long track records concerning the Middle East and radical Islam.

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

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Trump vs. Biden on Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim (Nov 1, 2020)
Biden Must Not Reprise Obama's Middle East Policy
by Eric James Bordenkircher (Winter 2021)
Biden Condemns Anti-Semitism While Ignoring Democrats Who Support It
by Benjamin Baird (Sep 12, 2020)
How the Trump Plan Makes Peace Possible
by Douglas J. Feith & Lewis Libby (Fall 2020)
Feeling Optimistic about Israel and the Emirates
by Daniel Pipes (Aug 14, 2020)
Trump's Syria Policy Is Working
by Jonathan Spyer (Jul 1, 2020)
Deciphering Bidenese
by Daniel Pipes (Jun 15, 2020)
For Israel, Biden Will Prove Worse than Bernie
by Matthew Mainen (May 3, 2020)
Trump Just Enabled Israel to Attack Iran's Nuclear Sites
by Michael Peck (Mar 4, 2020)
Martin Kramer: The Trump Plan Will Be "Transformative" for Palestinians
by Marilyn Stern (Feb 28, 2020)
The Trump Plan Is a Win for Victory and Peace
by Alex Selsky (Jan 30, 2020)
Daniel Pipes on the Fallout from Qasem Solemeini's Death
(Jan 4, 2020)

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Erdoğan's New Charm Offensive: Bogus Democratic Reforms
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