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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.

Summer 2025 Volume 32: Number 3
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“Are You Alawite?”: A Call to Prevent Genocide in Syria
June 1, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence as a Pathway to Normalization Between Israel and Saudi Arabia: Post-Gaza War Prospects
June 1, 2025
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A Growing Security Threat: Iranian Intelligence Operations in Scandinavia (Part One: Denmark and Norway)
June 1, 2025
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Iran’s Use of Psychological Warfare Against Its Adversaries and Strategies for Deterrence
June 1, 2025
Book Reviews
June 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
June 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Summer 2025
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Book Reviews
March 1, 2025
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Brief Reviews
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
The October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War Against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Oman’s Transformation After 1970
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
March 1, 2025
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Biden’s Volte-Face on Israel: How Decades of Support Turned into Criticism
By: Daniel J Samet
March 1, 2025
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Time to Take the Iranian Nuclear Bull by the Horns
By: Colin M. Winston
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Slavery, Abolition, and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
The British Suicide: The U.K.'s Self-Inflicted Failure to Defeat Jihad for Two Decades
March 1, 2025
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The Gaza War and the ‘Egypt-Is-Too-Big-to-Fail’ Argument
By: Nael Shama
March 1, 2025
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Misinformation Strategy and Media Bias in the Gaza War
By: Andrew Fox and Tatiana Glezer
March 1, 2025
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Brief Reviews
December 9, 2024
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Turkey’s Demographic Engineering in Syria’s Afrin Region: A Closer Look
December 9, 2024
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Sirwan Kajjo
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Why the Palestinian Authority Cannot Allow Free Speech
December 9, 2024
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Ido Zelkovitz
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Vindicating The Poisoned Chalice: Iran’s Creeping Invasion of Iraq
December 9, 2024
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Ofra Bengio
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What Does Regime Change in Iran Look Like?
Following the Islamic Republic’s 12-Day War with Israel, There May Be a Genuine Opportunity for the Iranian People to Reclaim Their Future from the Regime’s Grasp
July 29, 2025
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