About Middle East Quarterly

The Middle East Quarterly, founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, 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 mainstream book reviews on subjects ranging from archaeology to politics and on countries from Morocco to Iran.

Prominent scholars and policymakers published in the Middle East Quarterly include original works by John Esposito, Newt Gingrich, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Kaplan, Bernard Lewis, Martin Peretz, and David Pryce-Jones. Edited by Jonathan Spyer, its prior editors included Daniel Pipes, Martin Kramer, Michael Rubin, Denis MacEoin, and Efraim Karsh.

The Quarterly is peer-reviewed and welcomes submissions of both original articles and excerpts of forthcoming books. Priority is given to articles demonstrating original research on topics that explore critical issues. For style guidelines and information on submitting a manuscript, click here.

The Middle East Quarterly is an open access journal, with all content available without charge in full-text on this website. The Quarterly allows reposts of its articles as an integral whole with a citation that includes author, date, title, publication and original URL.