Articles by Middle East Forum

Articles by MEF Staff and Fellows
Title Publication Date
Nigeria's Christmas Present: Blown Up Christians Hudson New YorkDecember 28, 2011
Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab Jihad WatchDecember 28, 2011
The Coming Collapse of Yemen The American SpectatorDecember 27, 2011
Assessing the Surge in Iraq MERIADecember 22, 2011
Betraying Ben-Gurion Hudson New YorkDecember 22, 2011
Muslim Persecution of Christians: November 2011 Hudson New YorkDecember 21, 2011
Iraq's Christians Near Extinction FrontPageMagazine.comDecember 21, 2011
Tehran holds Obama re-election wild card [in Iraq] The Washington TimesDecember 20, 2011
The Failure of Secular and Liberal Egyptians The American SpectatorDecember 16, 2011
Iraq's violence is for Iraqis to tackle The Daily Star (Beirut)December 16, 2011
Haaretz: The Paper for Thinking People? Hudson New YorkDecember 16, 2011
The Specter of Jizya Returns to Egypt Jihad WatchDecember 15, 2011
Islamists Demand Counterterrorism Training Censor Ideology FrontPageMagazine.comDecember 13, 2011
Anti-Israelism in Israel JointMedia News ServiceDecember 12, 2011
Sunni Realignments The American SpectatorDecember 9, 2011
Collective Punishment Under Islam Hudson New YorkDecember 8, 2011
The 'Angry Arab' Goes Mad FrontPageMagazine.comDecember 8, 2011
Sharia's Sinister Smiles Jihad WatchDecember 8, 2011
Egypt's Sham Election National Review OnlineDecember 6, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood: Subverting Free Societies from Within Hudson New YorkDecember 5, 2011
Overviewing Shi'a-Sunni Conflicts Israel National NewsDecember 2, 2011
Obama Administration Bans Knowledge of Islam Hudson New YorkNovember 30, 2011
Avoiding the Islamist Stigma The American SpectatorNovember 29, 2011
Arabist Snobs National Review OnlineNovember 22, 2011
Iraqi petroleum and the damage done The Daily Star (Beirut)November 21, 2011
Once Again, Islamists Bully Europe on Free Speech PJ MediaNovember 19, 2011
Syria, Turkey and the Kurds Israel National NewsNovember 18, 2011
Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2011 Hudson New YorkNovember 17, 2011
Juan Cole: Critic of Democracy, Apologist for Tyranny FrontPageMagazine.comNovember 17, 2011
What Does "Moderate" Islamist Mean? The Jerusalem PostNovember 17, 2011
The Middle East Studies Establishment vs. Walid Phares American ThinkerNovember 11, 2011
Gilbert Achcar's Anti-Zionism of Fools FrontPageMagazine.comNovember 10, 2011
Military Intervention in the Arab Spring Israel National NewsNovember 10, 2011
Libya Heading Towards Islamism The American SpectatorNovember 9, 2011
Friendless in the Middle East National Review OnlineNovember 8, 2011
Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech, and Islam The American SpectatorNovember 7, 2011
Finnish delusions The Jerusalem PostNovember 7, 2011
With U.S. Troops Leaving, Is Iraq a Democratic Country Now? PJ MediaNovember 2, 2011
Why Does the Crucifix "Provoke" Muslims? Hudson New YorkNovember 2, 2011
Sudan in Crisis The American SpectatorNovember 1, 2011
Canada's Muslims, Not of One Mind Macdonald-Laurier InstituteNovember 2011
Egypt's Massacre of Christians Hudson New YorkOctober 31, 2011
Top Muslim Declares All Christians 'Infidels' Pajamas MediaOctober 28, 2011
Setting the Record Straight on the U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq Pajamas MediaOctober 27, 2011
Tunisian Elections and the Road to the Caliphate Jihad WatchOctober 27, 2011
Obama's Misplaced Mideast Optimism National Review OnlineOctober 25, 2011
Qatar's Sunni Side The American SpectatorOctober 25, 2011
Explaining Iran's Approach Towards the Middle East The Jerusalem PostOctober 25, 2011
Preserving Iraq's Assyrians: Federalism Assyrian International News AgencyOctober 24, 2011
Hamas' win-win formula YNet NewsOctober 23, 2011
Gaddafi Dead - So What? Pajamas MediaOctober 22, 2011
Will Nouri al-Maliki Survive His Second Term In Office? The Kurdish GlobeOctober 22, 2011
Assessing Bahrain The American SpectatorOctober 19, 2011
Academic Pay to Play American ThinkerOctober 16, 2011
Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt's Christians? Jihad WatchOctober 13, 2011
Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011 Hudson New YorkOctober 12, 2011
Cyprus on the World Stage National Review OnlineOctober 11, 2011
The revisionist history of Sari Nusseibeh The Jerusalem PostOctober 11, 2011
The Egyptian Military's Crimes Against Humanity Hudson New YorkOctober 11, 2011
Egypt: Destroying Churches, One at a Time Hudson New YorkOctober 10, 2011
No, Syria won't plunge Iraq into war The Daily Star (Beirut)October 7, 2011
The Arab Spring and the Jews Israel National NewsOctober 6, 2011
Islamism's Predictability Jihad WatchOctober 6, 2011
The Self-Defeating Statehood Gambit JointMedia News ServiceOctober 4, 2011
Pakistan and China: Strengthening Ties The American SpectatorOctober 4, 2011
David Letterman gets it exactly right The Daily CallerOctober 3, 2011
Security threat from Yemen? The Jerusalem PostOctober 3, 2011
The 'Mosqueteria' and Canada's Fuzzy Church-State Line Pajamas MediaOctober 2, 2011
Islam's History of Forced Conversions Pajamas MediaSeptember 29, 2011
Running for Their Lives Jihad WatchSeptember 28, 2011
Is Turkey Going Rogue? National Review OnlineSeptember 27, 2011
Kurdish-Christian rivalries The Kurdistan TribuneSeptember 25, 2011
The State Department's Skewed Standards Jihad WatchSeptember 23, 2011
When Muslims Are More 'Radical' than 'Islamists' Pajamas MediaSeptember 22, 2011
The Real Iran Hudson New YorkSeptember 21, 2011
Iraq's politicians hover above the law The Daily Star (Beirut)September 20, 2011
Instability Spreading The American SpectatorSeptember 19, 2011
John L. Esposito: Apologist for Wahhabi Islam American ThinkerSeptember 18, 2011
A Tale of Two Apostasies Jihad WatchSeptember 16, 2011
There Is No Palestinian State The Daily BeastSeptember 16, 2011
Exposed: Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Ignorance and Naivety Pajamas MediaSeptember 15, 2011
Where is the Palestinian Ben-Gurion? The Jerusalem PostSeptember 15, 2011
In Praise of NYC's Muscular Counterterrorism National Review OnlineSeptember 13, 2011
Panetta vs. U.S. Military on Iraq The American SpectatorSeptember 13, 2011
The U.S. Government's Failed History of Muslim Outreach Pajamas MediaSeptember 11, 2011
Winning the Battle Against Al-Qaeda, Losing the War Against Jihad Pajamas MediaSeptember 10, 2011
Why 'Christian' Persecution? Jihad WatchSeptember 9, 2011
Why the Muslim Beard Bodes Trouble Pajamas MediaSeptember 8, 2011
Libya Burning The American SpectatorSeptember 8, 2011
A Sectarian Issue The American SpectatorSeptember 7, 2011
Muslim Persecution of Christians: August, 2011 Hudson New YorkSeptember 7, 2011
"Muslim Radicalization": In the Eyes of the Beholder Jihad WatchSeptember 1, 2011
The Semiotics of Honor Killing & Ritual Murder The Journal of Generative AnthropologyFall 2011
Assessing Qaddafi National Review OnlineAugust 30, 2011
Obama's Pretend Counterterrorism Policy National ReviewAugust 29, 2011
Iraq goes the way of its Gulf neighbors The Daily Star (Beirut)August 26, 2011
Reading Between the Lines Jihad WatchAugust 25, 2011
Assad Knows What He's Doing The National InterestAugust 23, 2011
The Lone Wolf Jihad Jihad WatchAugust 18, 2011
Mubarak Deceived Israel as Muhammad Deceived Infidels? Hudson New YorkAugust 17, 2011
White House Mischief The Washington TimesAugust 16, 2011
A Guide to the Galaxy of Islamic Anti-Semitism Israel National NewsAugust 15, 2011
This Month in Muslim Persecution of Christians: July FrontPageMagazine.comAugust 12, 2011
Spring comes, but not for Iraq's Kurds The Daily Star (Beirut)August 12, 2011
Texts, Lies and Videotape The National InterestAugust 10, 2011
How Jihad Influenced the Norway Massacre Hudson New YorkAugust 8, 2011
Land for War The Wall Street JournalAugust 5, 2011
New Muslim 'Reality' Show Is Anything But Hudson New YorkAugust 4, 2011
Abdo's Loyalty to Muslims Always Meant Disloyalty to Americans Pajamas MediaAugust 3, 2011
The Palestinians' Imaginary State Foreign PolicyAugust 3, 2011
"Christian Terrorism"? Jihad WatchAugust 3, 2011
Israel's Cottage-Cheese Rebellion The Wall Street JournalAugust 3, 2011
Another Islamist Soldier Turns Terrorist in Texas The Washington TimesAugust 2, 2011
Middle Eastern Christians and anti-Semitism The Jerusalem PostAugust 2, 2011
[Breivik and] Norway's Terrorism in Context National Review OnlineJuly 27, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood: "Impose Islam... Step by Step" Hudson New YorkJuly 25, 2011
A Chameleon, Nevertheless American ThinkerJuly 24, 2011
Casual Hate: The Subtle Side of Christian Persecution FrontPageMagazine.comJuly 20, 2011
Empower Iranians vs. Tehran National Review OnlineJuly 19, 2011
Berkeley-CAIR Islamophobia Report: 'No There, There' American ThinkerJuly 17, 2011
North Sudan: What next? The Jerusalem PostJuly 11, 2011
Israel's Human Chameleon Strikes Again American ThinkerJuly 10, 2011
Is Simple Attention the Islamists' Greatest Enemy? Pajamas MediaJuly 8, 2011
The Hard Man of Damascus Foreign PolicyJuly 6, 2011
Egypt: Desire for Money - Jizya - Prompts Attacks on Christians FrontPageMagazine.comJuly 6, 2011
Middle East Studies in Upheaval National Review OnlineJuly 5, 2011
Pakistan's Christian 'Sex-Slaves': A Case Study FrontPageMagazine.comJuly 5, 2011
Why Muslim Demands for Headscarves Are Exaggerated Hudson New YorkJune 30, 2011
How Islamic Absurdities Prove Islamic Violence FrontPageMagazine.comJune 26, 2011
Georgetown and the Islamist Money Changers American ThinkerJune 24, 2011
Not Stealing Palestine but Purchasing Israel National Review OnlineJune 21, 2011
Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri, Bigger Threat Than Osama? BloombergJune 19, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Caught Lying - While Swearing to God FrontPageMagazine.comJune 17, 2011
Reclaiming a historical truth HaaretzJune 10, 2011
The Emptying of Yemen The Washington TimesJune 7, 2011
Muslim Woman Seeks to Revive Institution of Sex-Slavery FrontPageMagazine.comJune 6, 2011
Manzar Foroohar: The California Faculty Association's Secret Weapon FrontPageMagazine.comJune 3, 2011
Saree Makdisi's One-State Solution: A Delusive 'Just Peace' FrontPageMagazine.comJune 1, 2011
Raped and Ransacked in the Muslim World FrontPageMagazine.comMay 31, 2011
Islamists Project Islam's Worst Traits onto Christians FrontPageMagazine.comMay 25, 2011
Fin de Régime in Syria? National Review OnlineMay 24, 2011
Conversion, Adultery, and Savagery Strike Egypt FrontPageMagazine.comMay 23, 2011
Moosa and the Madrassas American ThinkerMay 22, 2011
Whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood FrontPageMagazine.comMay 20, 2011
Abbas's Fable The Jerusalem PostMay 20, 2011
Obama's Middle East Speech National Review Online: The CornerMay 19, 2011
Tariq Ramadan Discovers His Inner Flower Child American ThinkerMay 15, 2011
Muslim 'Inferiority Complex' Kills Christians FrontPageMagazine.comMay 14, 2011
Iraq - A Province of Iran? The Washington TimesMay 12, 2011
Osama Bin Laden: Chicken or Egg? Pajamas MediaMay 12, 2011
Radical Islam at UC Berkeley Law American ThinkerMay 8, 2011
Pushing 'Islamophobia' at UCLA FrontPageMagazine.comMay 5, 2011
Bin Laden and the Eternal Hydra of War Hudson New YorkMay 3, 2011
Job Opening: New Global Jihad Leader Wanted NRO: The CornerMay 2, 2011
May Christians Preach Outside a Philadelphia Mosque? American ThinkerMay 1, 2011
What Is Israel's Next Move In The New Middle East? Moment MagazineMay/June 2011
Islam's Christian Scapegoats FrontPageMagazine.comApril 29, 2011
Assad protected by cult of incompetence The Washington TimesApril 27, 2011
Understanding Post-Mubarak Egypt National Review OnlineApril 26, 2011
Anti-Israel Jewish Studies Arutz Sheva: Israel National NewsApril 26, 2011
Torturing the Truth at Duke Divinity American ThinkerApril 24, 2011
'Litigating Palestine' at a Public-supported Law School American ThinkerApril 24, 2011
Were Conquered Christians Really Liberated Muslims? FrontPageMagazine.comApril 24, 2011
Mohammed Bouazizi, Historical Figure National Review OnlineApril 20, 2011
CAIR's Strong-Arm Tactics in the Cradle of Liberty Pajamas MediaApril 20, 2011
The Silent Extermination of Iraq's 'Christian Dogs' FrontPageMagazine.comApril 19, 2011
Ambitious Turkey National Review OnlineApril 12, 2011
Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians FrontPageMagazine.comApril 8, 2011
Should We Blame a Florida Pastor for Deaths in Afghanistan? FoxNews.comApril 6, 2011
Assad's Survival Strategy Foreign PolicyApril 6, 2011
Ideals Trump Interests in Obama's Libya Policy Hudson New YorkApril 6, 2011
Islamists on Welfare: Paid to Plot the West's Demise Pajamas MediaApril 4, 2011
How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There? Israel AffairsApril 2011
Four Middle Eastern Upheavals FoxNews.comMarch 29, 2011
Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia FrontPageMagazine.comMarch 28, 2011
The pinnacle of incompetence The Jerusalem PostMarch 23, 2011
No 'Revolution' for Egypt's Christians FrontPageMagazine.comMarch 22, 2011
What is at stake in Egypt's referendum The JuristMarch 19, 2011
Weeping and Other Hysterics Hudson New YorkMarch 14, 2011
Back to the Shores of Tripoli? National Review OnlineMarch 10, 2011
Libya: What to do? National Review OnlineMarch 10, 2011
Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What? Hudson New YorkMarch 8, 2011
Mosques Flourish in America; Churches Perish in Muslim World Pajamas MediaMarch 3, 2011
My Optimism about the New Arab Revolt National Review OnlineMarch 1, 2011
A legacy of violence The Jerusalem PostMarch 1, 2011
Ingrid Mattson: No Longer Leading ISNA, but Still Advancing Radical Islam American ThinkerFebruary 20, 2011
Is an Egyptian "Democracy" a Good Thing? Hudson New YorkFebruary 16, 2011
Egypt's Chance The Washington TimesFebruary 15, 2011
Egypt's Identity Crisis Pajamas MediaFebruary 14, 2011
Can American Values Radicalize Muslims? Pajamas MediaFebruary 10, 2011
Anoush Ehteshami and Democracy in Egypt The EconomistFebruary 8, 2011
Dreaming of Damascus The National InterestFebruary 8, 2011
Islam and Democracy - Much Hard Work Needed National PostFebruary 7, 2011
Professors Push Israel to Negotiate with Hamas American ThinkerFebruary 6, 2011
Why Egypt Will Not Soon Become Democratic The EconomistFebruary 4, 2011
Why the Egyptian Revolution Can Be the Best - or Worst - Thing to Happen National Review Online: The CornerFebruary 2, 2011
Turmoil in Egypt The Washington TimesFebruary 1, 2011
The Kevin Bacon of American Jihad Pajamas MediaJanuary 26, 2011
Bewitched Animals and the Muslim Media Hudson New YorkJanuary 26, 2011
Is the Media 'Fair and Balanced' on Christian Persecution? Pajamas MediaJanuary 23, 2011
Turmoil in Tunisia The Washington TimesJanuary 18, 2011
Copts Pay the Price DanielPipes.orgJanuary 12, 2011
Radical Muslims in America Hudson New YorkJanuary 12, 2011
The latest terrorist tactic: litigation The Daily CallerJanuary 11, 2011
Obama's Moment of Truth at the UN CommentaryJanuary 6, 2011
Is Saudi Arabia Opening Up? National Review OnlineJanuary 4, 2011
Why Isn't Obama Pressuring the Palestinians? Foreign PolicyJanuary 4, 2011
Articles in Middle East Quarterly
Title Publication Date
Brief Reviews Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Sudan's Ticking Time Bombs Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Azzam's Genocidal Threat Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
The Muhammad al-Dura Hoax and Other Myths Revived Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Israel's Tenured Extremists Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Does Anyone Speak Arabic? Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Europe's Underestimated Islamists Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Toward a Nonviolent, Pluralistic Middle East Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Early Warnings Ignored Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
What 9/11 Has Wrought Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Dissident Watch: Maikel Nabil Sanad Middle East QuarterlyFall 2011
Brief Reviews Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
How Anti-Semitism Prevents Peace Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Misreading the Mullahs Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Tightening the Economic Noose Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Mixed Response in Iran Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
UNRWA's Anti-Israel Bias Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Iraq Weathers the Political Storm Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
The View from Syria and Lebanon Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Tunisia's Morning After Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Weakening Washington's Middle East Influence Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Shari'a and Violence in American Mosques Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
The Arab Upheaval: Egypt's Islamist Shadow Middle East QuarterlySummer 2011
Lebanon's Islamist Stronghold Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Brief Reviews Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
All Ahmadinejad's Men Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
NGOs vs. Israel Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Damascus on Trial Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Turkey's Christians under Siege Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Abbas vs. Obama Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
India's Changing Role Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Reforming the Village War Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Mission Creep and Its Discontents Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Egypt's Antiquities Caught in the Revolution Middle East QuarterlySpring 2011
Brief Reviews Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
Morocco's Berbers and Israel Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
Khamene'i's Balancing Act Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
Alexander Downer, "Proud of the Role We Played in Saddam's Overthrow" Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
Turkey's Ambassadors vs. Erdoğan Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
What Waziristan Means for Afghanistan Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
A French Intifada Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
What Palestinians Are Saying Online Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
Saad Hariri's Moment of Truth Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011
Delegitimizing the Jewish State Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2011