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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.


Winter 2026 Volume 33: Number 1
Ankara’s Drones Signal Erdoğan’s Global Ambitions and Islamist Politics
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Drone Power and Political Islam: How Turkey’s Military-Tech Complex Fuels Interventionism
December 1, 2025
A Generation Divided: Antizionism Rises Among Young Evangelicals.
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Three Reasons Why Young US Evangelicals Are Turning Against Israel
December 1, 2025
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‘It Is a Question of Which Civilisation You Prefer’: Winston Churchill at the Crisis of Zionism
December 1, 2025
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What Islam’s Golden Age Ignored and What It Means Today
December 1, 2025
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Book Reviews
December 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Winter 2026
Brief Reviews
Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel—and America—Can Win
September 2, 2025
Book Reviews
White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
Armageddon 2029
September 2, 2025
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Neutralizing the Houthi Threat: A Strategic Blueprint for the Red Sea and Beyond
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
Handbook of Political Islam in Europe: Activities, Means, and Strategies from Salafists to the Muslim Brotherhood and Beyond
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas: A Comparative Approach
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
The Islamic Secular
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
Jihadist Governance and Statecraft
September 2, 2025
Brief Reviews
Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges
September 2, 2025
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The Syrian Druze: Between the Hammer of Integration and the Anvil of Separation
September 2, 2025
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A Growing Security Threat: Iranian Intelligence Operations in Scandinavia (Part Two: Sweden)
September 2, 2025
Book Reviews
Two Palestinian Memoirs Recall the Good Old Days
September 2, 2025
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Hizb ut-Tahrir: Political Doctrine, Global Reach, and Challenge to the International Order
September 2, 2025
Book Reviews
Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments
June 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World
June 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Polluted Politics: The Development of an Israeli-Palestinian E-Waste Economy
June 1, 2025
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Jerusalem on Earth: Clamoring at Heaven’s Gate: Post-Six Day War Jerusalem
June 1, 2025
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Leaving Islam, Ex-Muslims, and Zemiology
June 1, 2025
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Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran, 1800-1988
June 1, 2025
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