Gregg Roman

Gregg Roman

Executive Director

Gregg Roman is the executive director of the Middle East Forum. In 2014, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency named him one of the “ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders,” and he previously served as the political advisor to Israel’s deputy foreign minister and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A frequent speaker on Middle East affairs, Mr. Roman has testified before Congress and the Knesset and appears on international news channels such as Fox News, i24NEWS, Al Jazeera, BBC World News, and Israel’s Channels 12 and 13. He studied national security and political communications at American University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and has contributed to The Hill, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, and the Jerusalem Post.

Articles by this Author
Its New Book on the Global Jihadi Movement Is a Study in Omission
Mapping Ideological Networks Is an Ordinary Practice in American Civil Society
Washington Is Still Sanctioning Turkish Conduits One at a Time Instead of Pressing Ankara
The emirate that bought Washington’s silence is deporting a religious minority by verbal order. America’s leverage exists to be used
The Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani Pact Will Not Fight. Israel Should Build the Bloc That Will
American missile defense is winning every engagement and losing the war. The remedy is an offensive campaign against Iran’s launchers
The region can defeat Iranian raids. It cannot yet outlast Iranian arsenals. The difference is measured in interceptor stockpiles and factory output.
CAIR Secretly Surrendered Its National Headquarters to an Islamic Trust Using an Insider Corporate Shell
Azerbaijan Offers Washington the Strategic Access, Energy Security, and Regional Leverage Turkey No Longer Provides
Inside the Think-Tank Network Fueling Ankara’s Rift with Washington — Interactive Matrix
Ending the Subsidy: Why the United States Must Stop Extending Credit to an Institutionally Anti-American NATO Ally
Washington Must End Support for Think Tanks that Pursue Turkey’s Strategic Autonomy as a Zero-Sum Game Against the US
Mapping the 21 Think Tanks and Foundations that Supply the Anti-American Narratives Driving Ankara’s Shift Away from the West.
Erdoğan’s Turkey Is Using the Hegemon’s Tools to Build the Machine That Will One Day Render the Hegemon Irrelevant
If No Ally Will Write the Red Lines of Israel Into a Deal, Then It Has No Choice but to Become the Guarantor of Its Own Security
We Fought the Islamic Republic for Thirty-Nine Days and We Were Winning. The Memorandum in Islamabad Hands That Victory Back. And It Sells the Iranian People to Do It.
No Agreement, Not This One and Not a Better One, Can Permanently Guarantee That Iran Never Builds a Nuclear Weapon
The Only Open Question Is Whether the Transition Is Built or Improvised
Restructuring the U.S.-Israel Defense Relationship for the Post-Aid Era