Webinars

Middle East Forum webinars feature a brief video presentation by one or two specialists, followed by a question-and-answer period. To view past webinars, click on the links below.

Participation in the webinars as they take place requires advance registration and the Zoom application on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Sign up for forthcoming webinars.

Title Date
Daniel Pipes on The Oslo Accords: Lessons Learned September 13, 2023
Asad Noor: Why Western Islamists Want to Murder Me September 8, 2023
Catherine Perez-Shakdam on Unveiling Iran's Modus Operandi: Challenges and Responses August 28, 2023
Eugene Volokh on Boycotts, Discrimination, and the First Amendment August 25, 2023
Hanin Ghaddar on Hezbollah's Quandary – More Power but More Hated August 21, 2023
Gregg Roman: Defining U.S. Policy Toward the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict August 18, 2023
Sarit Zehavi: Is War between Israel and Hizbullah Imminent? August 14, 2023
Naser Khader on Making Sense of Koran Burnings in Sweden and Denmark August 11, 2023
Mordechai Kedar: What Will Israel's Next War Look Like? August 7, 2023
Robert Satloff on Prospects for the Normalization of Saudi-Israeli Relations August 4, 2023
Benjamin Baird: Enough Talk! How Do We Counter Islamism Across America? July 31, 2023
Endy Zemenides: Will Erdoğan's Charm Campaign Succeed? July 24, 2023
Sirwan Kajjo on U.S. Forces in Syria: What Role Do They Play? July 21, 2023
Mohamed Farid on China in Egypt and the Middle East July 17, 2023
Edward Luttwak: Focus on the Palestinians, Not Their Leaders July 14, 2023
Dexter Van Zile on Land Acknowledgements and the Delegitimization of Israel July 10, 2023
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on the Muslim-Led Riots That Left France in Flames July 3, 2023
Jason Brodsky: Did Washington Sufficiently Support Iran's Revolutionaries? June 30, 2023
Pinar Tremblay on Understanding Erdoğan's Victory June 26, 2023
Natan Sharansky: Israel Should Be "Much More Involved" in Ukraine War Effort June 19, 2023
Soeren Kern on Europe's Alarming New Migrant Crisis June 16, 2023
David Adesnik on Washington and Damascus: Make-Up Time? June 12, 2023
Imam Mohammad Tawhidi on Peace Between Jews and Muslims: Permissible and Achievable June 9, 2023
Robert Rabil on the Tragedy of Lebanon June 5, 2023
Oren Kessler on "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and Roots of the Middle East Conflict" June 2, 2023
Javad Hashmi: Who Will Lead American Islam? May 27, 2023
Itamar Marcus on Rejectionism in Palestinian Children's Education May 22, 2023
Jordan Cope: How Effective Are the Middle East's State-Run Media? May 12, 2023
Reed Rubinstein on Foreign Influence on Campus May 8, 2023
Collin May: How the 'Islamophobia' Accusation Damaged Me May 5, 2023
Izabella Tabarovsky: The Sinister Legacy of Soviet Anti-Israel Propaganda May 1, 2023
Sam Westrop on Americans vs Europeans: Guess Who Deals Better with Islamism? April 28, 2023
Majid Mohammadi on Iranian Dissidents in the Diaspora April 24, 2023
Alexandra Papadopoulou on Greece and the Middle East: The View from Athens April 19, 2023
Alireza Nader: Whither the Iranian Uprising? April 14, 2023
Lawdan Bazargan on Tehran's Infiltration of American Academia April 10, 2023
Ron Schleifer on What Israel Can Learn from the Palestinians about Victory April 3, 2023
Roz Rothstein: Israeli Apartheid Week Returns to a Campus Near You March 31, 2023
Paul Schneider on the Holocaust's Proper Place in Israeli Memory March 27, 2023
Abdulrahman Bindamnan: Reflecting on My Islamic Education March 24, 2023
Todd Bensman on Muslim Migrants on the U.S. Terror List Infiltrating the Southern U.S. Border March 20, 2023
Nima Gholan Ali Pour on Sweden's Crisis of Unchecked Immigration March 17, 2023
Joseph Braude on 'Whispered in Gaza,' Silenced Voices Made Audible March 13, 2023
Benjamin Weinthal on Iran's Shifting Relations with Europe March 10, 2023
Asra Nomani on Islamism's Woke Army March 3, 2023
David P. Goldman on the New, New Middle East: China, Iran, and Turkey February 27, 2023
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III on Iraq: Twenty Years After the Fall of Saddam Hussein February 24, 2023
Adam Levick on the BBC's Islamist Insiders February 20, 2023
Amir Taheri on Iran's Counter-Revolution February 17, 2023
Gil Hoffman on New Developments in Media Coverage of Israel February 13, 2023
Benjamin Baird on the Future of Islamism in Politics in the United States February 6, 2023
Dexter Van Zile: A Muhammed Picture and Hamline's Crisis February 3, 2023
Seth Frantzman on Drones and the Transformation of Warfare January 30, 2023
Raymond Ibrahim on Christians Who Defended the West from Islamic Conquest January 27, 2023
Tomas Sandell on the Future of European-Israeli Relations January 23, 2023
Hussain Abdul-Hussain on Iran's Push to Control Iraq January 20, 2023
Jonathan Schanzer: The Abraham Accords and Jordan's Unsustainable Position January 13, 2023
Nicholas Damask: A College Professor's Victory Over CAIR January 6, 2023
Enes Kanter Freedom: "The Price I Paid for Criticizing the Turkish Regime" December 30, 2022
Emanuele Ottolenghi on Iranian Operations in Latin America December 23, 2022
Tereza Yerimyan on Containing Turkish Adventurism on Capitol Hill December 19, 2022
Diliman Abdulkader on Finding Peace and Stability for the Kurds December 16, 2022
Dan Schueftan: Israel's Opportunities and Challenges December 12, 2022
Alberto M. Fernandez: Sudan at the Crossroads December 9, 2022
Richard Landes on Why Leftists Embrace Islamist Ideas about the West December 5, 2022
Ahnaf Kalam on Uthman ibn Farooq: Hate Crime Victim or Hoaxer? December 2, 2022
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner: Waging the Battle to Bankrupt the Jihad November 28, 2022
Eliezer Tauber on Deir Yassin: The Massacre That Never Was November 21, 2022
Daniel Pipes, Cynthia Farahat, and Jonathan Schanzer: The Muslim Brotherhood, as Revealed in a New Book November 18, 2022
Gregg Roman: The Shabby Tale of Qatar's Ex-CIA Hire November 14, 2022
Sam Westrop and Benjamin Baird: Why Are Western Islamists Realigning with the Right? November 11, 2022
Juliana Taimoorazy Explains Who the Assyrian Christians Are and Their Current Crisis November 7, 2022
Jonathan Spyer: Is Erdoğan's Turkey Aiding in a Jihadist Takeover of Northwest Syria? November 4, 2022
Joshua Teitelbaum on Israel and the Persian Gulf: Dawn of a New Era October 31, 2022
Danielle Pletka: Is the Middle East Being 'Qatarized'? October 28, 2022
Yuval Steinitz: How Israel Stopped Syria's Nukes October 24, 2022
Walter Russell Mead: Charting the History of the U.S.-Israel Relationship October 21, 2022
Christopher Holton: Waging a Counter-Islamist Offensive in America October 17, 2022
Mindy Belz: Are the Kurds on Their Own? October 14, 2022
Susannah Johnston on the Decline of the Islamic Society of North America: An On-Site Report October 7, 2022
Liel Leibovitz: The Dangers of Projecting American Ideas about Race on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict October 3, 2022
Zuhdi Jasser on Islamists Vs. Muslim Reformists: How the Battle Has Evolved Since 9/11 September 30, 2022