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At MEF’s Urging, U.S. Designates Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias as Terrorists
The U.S. State Department Has Designated Four Iran-Backed Shi’a Militias as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Following Years of Advocacy by the Middle East Forum
September 19, 2025
A Middle East Forum investigation released today reveals that Northwestern University employs a professor who co-founded an organization that laundered money for Hamas to teach mandatory courses to American exchange students at the university's Qatar campus.
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Qatar-Funded Northwestern Employs Hamas Money Launderer to Teach U.S. Students
Middle East Forum Report Exposes Terror Ties Among Faculty as University Reels from President’s Resignation and $790M Federal Funding Freeze
September 8, 2025
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Fall MEQ Explores Syria’s Future, Iran’s Spycraft in Sweden, the Houthi Threat, and Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Playbook
September 5, 2025
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Terror-Linked Groups Denied Millions in DHS Funding Thanks to MEF Report
DHS: ‘We Take the Results of the MEF Report Very Seriously’
August 20, 2025
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Middle East Forum Condemns Cuba’s Detention of Fellow Amine Ayoub
Moroccan Journalist Interrogated over Israeli Passport Stamps, Held 32 Hours without Food or Water in Calculated Act of Authoritarian Harassment
August 14, 2025
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MEF Report Reveals DHS Hands Millions to Terrorist-Linked Groups
July 21, 2025
Georgetown’s leaders invited anti-American, anti-Western, and antisemitic operators to entrench themselves and their pernicious ideology into their institution. Healy Hall
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MEF Report: Georgetown Sells Out to Malign Islamist Influencers
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Is Ground Zero for Operatives from Qatar, Turkey, and Malaysia
July 8, 2025
The U.S. State Department’s 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices documented the Turkish government’s role in perpetrating arbitrary arrests and detentions of critics, journalists, and political opponents.
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MEF’s Michael Rubin Slams Turkey’s Human Rights Record in Congressional Hearing
The Hearing Presented a Bipartisan Display of the Growing Frustration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Increasing Authoritarianism
June 12, 2025
Two Middle East Forum writing fellows have been appointed to senior positions in the administration of President Donald Trump.
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Trump Administration Appoints Two MEF Writing Fellows to Senior Positions
Todd Bensman and Joseph Humire Bring Years of Experience to Their New White House Roles
June 11, 2025
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MEQ Summer 2025: Artificial Intelligence Emerges as Key to a Historic Israel–Saudi Thaw
June 2, 2025
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A Shi'ite mosque in Qom, Iran.
Middle East Forum Observer
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