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Statecraft Reimagined 2025
Watch the panel discussions and keynote presentations from our 2025 policy conference, “Statecraft Reimagined” in Washington, D.C.
June 5, 2025
Strategic ties have expanded beyond Greece, Cyprus, and Israel to include Middle Eastern countries, the United States, and the European Union, moving well beyond energy into the security realm. This relationship has taken on new significance in the post-October 7 Middle East environment.
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Eastern Mediterranean Contributions to Middle East Security: MEF at the Delphi Economic Forum
A Middle East Forum Report
April 18, 2025
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The Middle East: Harris and Trump Policies Explained
November 4, 2024
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Ahnaf Kalam
Fluttering Israel flag on crimson red sky with smoke pillars background. Israel problems concept.
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Israel’s Crucible: Forging a New Security Paradigm
Navigating Complex Threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Beyond in a Shifting Middle East Landscape
October 6, 2024
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Gregg Roman
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The Counter-Erdoğan Coalition: Taking on Turkey’s Strongman
May 17, 2023
Winfield Myers
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Salvaging Our Universities in an Era of Intellectual Decadence
May 17, 2023
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Winfield Myers
Winfield Myers
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The Challenges of Countering Islamism in the West
May 17, 2023
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Sam Westrop
Winfield Myers
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War Against ISIS and the Future of Syria: A Conversation with Sinam Mohamad
May 16, 2023
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Jonathan Spyer
Winfield Myers
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‘All about Activism': Countering Foreign Influence in the West
May 16, 2023
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Benjamin Baird
Winfield Myers
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Former Iran Prisoner XiYue Wang: Academic Perfidy and Diplomatic Appeasement Embolden the Islamic Republic
May 16, 2023
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Islamism and Antisemitism in America
June 3, 2019
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Asaf Romirowsky
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For thirteen centuries, the jizya stood as a religiously mandated instrument of subjugation—rooted in explicit Qur’anic command and elaborated across classical jurisprudence—not a reciprocal protection fee. Its graduated payments, humiliating collection rituals, and surrounding architecture of legal disabilities extracted wealth while enforcing abasement, driving the demographic collapse of once-thriving Christian and Jewish communities across the Levant, North Africa, and beyond. The jizya's enduring legacy of humiliation and contempt requires honest reckoning today: formal acknowledgment, restitution where possible, and reparative justice for the descendant communities who paid for the right to remain what they already were.
Dhimmitude Project
Confronting the Legacy of Jizya as an Instrument of Subjugation
Modern Muslim States Must Abandon the Mythology Surrounding the Jizya and Confront its Damage to Religious Minorities
July 15, 2026
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Jalal Tagreeb
From Houston to Mexico City and beyond, groups like ICNA (WhyIslam), MUNA, and IERA have mobilized volunteers, billboards, Qur’an distributions, and street outreach to recruit converts during the tournament. Organizers openly boast of shahadas secured on day one and hundreds more expected—while analysts document the networks’ deep roots in Jamaat-e-Islami, Muslim Brotherhood ideology, and calls for establishing sharia. What is presented as peaceful “sharing” is, ex-Muslims and scholars warn, a strategic long march toward Islamization of the West.
FWI News
Islamist Groups Turn FIFA World Cup into Field for Muslim Proselytization
Experts Warn of ‘Dawa’ as Gateway to Imposing Sharia in West
July 15, 2026
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Jules Gomes
Over the course of the years since the Hamas October 7 attacks, which actively sought to derail normalization, Saudi Arabia has arrived at a strategic assessment of the regional order that treats both Iran and Israel as equally revisionist actors whose conflict dynamics destabilize the Gulf at the expense of states that sought no part in their conflict. Photo: President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meet at the White House on November 18, 2025.
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Saudi Arabia’s Challenge to the Abraham Accords
The Assumption by the U.S. and Israel That Saudi Accession to the Abraham Accords Remained a Matter of Timing and Terms Has Been Significantly Undermined by Events
July 15, 2026
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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour