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Founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, MEQ is the Middle East Forum’s journal intended for both scholars and the educated public. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists write for and read the Quarterly, which is known for exclusive interviews, in-depth historical articles, and book reviews on subjects ranging from archaeology to politics and on countries from Morocco to Iran.


Spring 2026 Volume 33: Number 2
The Palestinian right of return is primarily a political and ideological claim rather than a binding legal one supported by international law. In 1974, Yasser Arafat championed it at the U.N., declaring that Zionism is "colonialist", "imperialist," and "racist." The right of return continues to shape Palestinian politics and Western diplomacy, and remains a central factor in the persistence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Palestinian Intransigence and the “Right of Return”
February 27, 2026
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Trump’s Twenty-Point Plan and Hamas’s Rebirth
February 27, 2026
Map of Nubl and al-Zahra in northern Aleppo countryside (10 June 2018). The map shows the locations of the two Twelver Shiite towns, Nubl and al-Zahra, within territories held by Syrian government forces (blue), opposition forces (green), and Kurdish forces (yellow) during the Syrian civil war. Despite their isolation amid Sunni and Kurdish regions, both towns have largely avoided post-Assad violence and serve as case studies in localized stability and minority protection.
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Eyewitness Report: Twelver Shiite Villages of Nubl and al-Zahra in the Aleppo Countryside in the Post-Assad Period
February 27, 2026
The June 2025 Israeli military campaign, backed by the U.S., significantly weakened Iran’s strategic capabilities and reshaped regional dynamics. Rather than accelerating formal Saudi-Israeli normalization, it produced a post-liberal Middle East in which Saudi Arabia treats Israel as a covert partner and constrained outsider while competing for regional primacy. (Shutterstock/Asset ID: 2096850640)
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Inter-Arab Rivalry and Regional Hierarchy in the Post–Liberal Middle East
February 27, 2026
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Book Reviews
February 27, 2026
Book Reviews
Winter 2026
Ahnaf Kalam
Book Reviews
British Muslims and Their Discourses
June 1, 2024
Ahnaf Kalam
Book Reviews
Two States for Two Peoples: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, International Law and European Union Policy
June 1, 2024
Ahnaf Kalam
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A Muslim Aliyah Paralleled the Jewish Aliyah: Part I, to 1948
June 1, 2024
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Daniel Pipes
Gary Gambill
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Damming the Blue Nile: Will Ethiopian-Egyptian Tensions Ignite?
March 1, 2024
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Martin Sherman
Gary Gambill
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Recognize Kosovo? A Middle East Dilemma?
March 1, 2024
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Michael B. Bishku
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022
March 1, 2024
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Itamar Rabinovich
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Target Tehran: How Israel is using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination–and Secret Diplomacy–to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
March 1, 2024
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Brief Reviews
March 1, 2024
Gary Gambill
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Kuwait’s Hedging Strategy Toward Iran and Saudi Arabia
March 1, 2024
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Mohammed Torki Bani Salameh
Gary Gambill
Book Reviews
Hijab: Word of God or Word of Man?
March 1, 2024
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Building a Decent Gaza
March 1, 2024
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Daniel Pipes
Gary Gambill
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Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law
March 1, 2024
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Loqman Radpey
Gary Gambill
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Whatever happened to Christianity? A Tafsir for Muslim Scholars and Thinkers
March 1, 2024
Gary Gambill
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Will Washington Intervene to Protect the Kurds of Syria and Iraq?
January 1, 2024
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Sirwan Kajjo
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Uncle Tom and the Happy Dhimmi: Reimagining Subjugation in the Islamic World and Antebellum South
January 1, 2024
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Eunice G. Pollack
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Brief Reviews
January 1, 2024
Gary Gambill
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Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey—The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism
January 1, 2024
Gary Gambill
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Rethinking Islamism Beyond Jihadi Violence: Fighting Ideas, Leaving the Sword Aside
January 1, 2024
Gary Gambill
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Israel and South Korea: A Growing Partnership
January 1, 2024
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Efraim Inbar
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La Fin du Judaïsme en terres d’Islam
January 1, 2024
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Supporters linked to Muqtada al-Sadr—whose militia targeted U.S. troops during the Iraq War—have organized food distribution events in Washington, D.C., and Dearborn, Michigan, presenting them as charitable outreach while promoting a movement with a long record of anti-American militancy. These activities, framed as religious service, raise concerns that they function as influence operations aimed at embedding a foreign-aligned network within U.S. communities and testing the limits of American oversight and tolerance.
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