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
More from MEF
Protesters at a January 20, 2025 rally in London demonize Israel, adding fervor and strength to the Islamist cause in the United Kingdom.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Baroness Warsi: Unable—or Unwilling—to Defend Civil Society in U.K.
Labour’s Likely Islamophobia Czar Says Only ‘Six Freaks’ Back Hamas
September 18, 2026
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Hannah Baldock
Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco formally agreed to upgrade their respective diplomatic liaison offices to full embassies and appoint official ambassadors. Accompanied by mutually agreed steps to expand direct commercial aviation routes and finalize key bilateral agreements on investment protection and double-taxation prevention by the end of 2026, the decision represented a further step in the evolution of their 2020 normalization framework.
Middle East Forum Online
Israel and Morocco Are Redrawing the Strategic Map of North Africa
Behind the Formal Diplomatic Language Lies a Vastly Broader, Far More Complex, and Highly Consequential Regional Narrative
September 18, 2026
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Amine Ayoub
Ruins of Tilla Jogian, an ancient Hindu monastery in Jhelum District that served Nath Jogi ascetics for nearly 2,000 years before being abandoned during Partition in 1947. Today it stands in disrepair, a symbol of Pakistan's fading Hindu heritage.
Dhimmitude Project
Citizens in Name Only: Pakistan’s Vanishing Hindu Minority
Neo-Dhimmitude Prompts Eight Decades of Erasure
September 18, 2026
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Imran Khurshid
The Grand Jamia Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, where Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi leads prayers and gives addresses.
Middle East Forum Observer
Archbishop of Canterbury Withdraws Award to Anti-Israel Muslim Cleric Who Backs Blasphemy Laws
Pakistani religious leader bestowed ‘Sword of God’ title on Osama bin Laden in response to Rushdie knighthood
September 18, 2026
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Jules Gomes
Protesters in Tehran, Iran, in January 2026.
Middle East Forum Observer
Iran’s Internal Battle over Tehran Street Protests
The Most Conservative Hardliners Worry That the Regime Is Losing Its Islamic Posture
September 18, 2026
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Shay Khatiri
The Center Block of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario.
Middle East Forum Online
Jewish Americans Are the Test; Canada Is the Preview
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Plan to Infiltrate the United States Is Working
September 17, 2026
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Craig Considine
Hamas is urging the International Court of Justice in The Hague, UN bodies and human rights NGOs to use the testimonies contained in the Israeli documentary film Naza as part of the investigations against Jerusalem regarding the war in Gaza.
Middle East Forum Online
If Even Hamas Praises the Movie Naza
An Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi
September 17, 2026
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Giulio Meotti
Last week, Houthi forces in Yemen captured the Red Sea port city of Mokha. It’s the most consequential Houthi victory since the Iranian-backed group seized the Yemeni capital Sanaa 12 years ago. While the Houthis have long targeted shipping with missiles and drones launched from the inland highlands, Mokha and nearby Perim Island give the Houthis direct control over the Bab el Mandeb gateway into the Red Sea.
Middle East Forum Online
To Stop the Houthis, Recognize Somaliland and South Arabia
Defeating the Houthis Would Be Possible Only If the State Department Stopped Playing by an Artificial Set of Rules
September 17, 2026
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Michael Rubin
The Turkish government tried to have Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab killed inside a U.S. federal detention facility after learning that he was cooperating with prosecutors in a sweeping Iran sanctions-evasion investigation implicating senior Turkish officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to a sentencing memorandum filed in federal court in New York.
Middle East Forum Online
Turkey Tried to Have Key U.S. Witness in an Iran Sanctions-Busting Case Killed in a New York Jail
Reza Zarrab’s Lawyers Devote a Section of Their Filing in a U.S. District Court to ‘Simultaneous Retaliation and Attempted Murder by Turkey’
September 17, 2026
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Abdullah Bozkurt
Press Releases
Middle East Forum Opens Israel Election 2026 Poll of Polls
The Site Compiles the 308 Polls Released in 2026, Links Each Row to the Publisher’s Report, and Averages the Newest Poll from Each Polling House
September 17, 2026