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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
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Kuwait’s Hedging Strategy Toward Iran and Saudi Arabia
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Hijab: Word of God or Word of Man?
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Whatever happened to Christianity? A Tafsir for Muslim Scholars and Thinkers
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Will Washington Intervene to Protect the Kurds of Syria and Iraq?
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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
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Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey—The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism
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Rethinking Islamism Beyond Jihadi Violence: Fighting Ideas, Leaving the Sword Aside
January 1, 2024
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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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The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-First Century: The Hard Road to Inclusive Prosperity
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The New Crusades—Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
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Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace
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State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth Century Egypt
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Hostile Homelands—The New Alliance Between India and Israel
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The Rapid Return of Israel’s Disastrous Policy
January 1, 2024
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Daniel Pipes
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Israel: National Security and Securitization
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Ori Wertman
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Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide
September 1, 2023
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Alan Dowty
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La dolce conquista. L’Europa si arrende all’Islam [The Sweet Conquest: Europe Surrenders to Islam]
September 1, 2023
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Giulio Meotti
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