Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes, a historian, is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. A former official in the U.S. Department of State, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. He has written twelve books and his website, DanielPipes.org, with a near-complete archive of his writings, has recorded nearly 60 million page visits. He writes a bi-weekly column for the Jerusalem Post, National Review, and other publications; his writings have been translated into 33 languages. Two U.S. presidents have appointed Mr. Pipes to U.S. government positions. Al-Qaeda has invited him to convert to Islam, Edward Kennedy borked him, and Edward Said called him an "Orientalist." His current focus is on the phenomenon of lawful Islamism (or soft jihad), the forwarding radical Islam through legitimate means. Contact: Pipes@MEForum.org.

ARTICLES BY: Daniel Pipes

February 25, 2014 1:28 pm

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Why It’s Not the Right Time to Call for Pollard’s Release

Jonathan Pollard's life sentence for the crimes he committed nearly 30 years ago is, without a doubt, both a travesty of justice and completely disproportionate. Indeed,...

February 24, 2014 8:40 am

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Washington is No Longer a Player in the Iran Game

The Menendez-Kirk "Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013" (S. 1881) threatens the Iranian regime with additional sanctions and appears to be the only way...

February 17, 2014 3:27 pm

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Salman Rushdie’s Fatwa 25 Years Later

Twenty-five years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini brought his edict down on Salman Rushdie. Iran's revolutionary leader objected to the author's magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses because of...

February 13, 2014 7:45 am

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Obama’s Promises Abroad Prove Hollow

As U.S. credibility and stature diminish in world affairs, the American president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial. Unfortunately for them,...

February 10, 2014 1:30 am

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Will There be Jews in Palestine?

A brouhaha erupted recently in Israel over a completely theoretical question: could Israelis now living in the West Bank be allowed to live under Palestinian...

February 4, 2014 12:18 am

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Pretending Tel Aviv is the Capital of Israel

Some, especially in the mainstream media, pretend that not Jerusalem but Tel Aviv serves as the capital of Israel. (Tel Aviv hosts the Ministry of...

January 27, 2014 10:34 am

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Yawning Over the Latest From the Middle East

The Middle East does offer some signs of hope, such as the inspiring example of Israel, the metaphorical "villa in the jungle"; the bracing prospect of Islamists...

January 24, 2014 12:00 pm

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Why the Middle East Can’t Modernize

The recent fall of Fallujah to an al Qaeda-linked group provides an unwelcome reminder of the American resources and lives devoted from 2004 to 2007 to...

January 20, 2014 12:44 am

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Has Iran Gained a Foothold in the Arabian Peninsula?

According to a sensational report by Awad Mustafa in DefenseNews, a Gannett publication, not only has Tehran signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates...

January 10, 2014 8:19 am

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John Kerry is Completely Out of Touch With Reality

Despite all that's going on the Middle East - the Iranian nuclear buildup, the violence in Iraq, the shaking of Erdoğan's rule in Turkey, civil...

December 20, 2013 1:08 pm

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Why We Should Support the Syrian Rebels

In April 2013, I published an article with the slightly inaccurate title, "Support Assad." Better would have been "Support Whichever Side Is Losing in the...

December 5, 2013 10:46 am

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Saudis Bristle at Obama’s Outreach to Iran

The "Joint Plan of Action" signed with Iran by the so-called P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.) on Nov. 24 in...

November 24, 2013 11:33 am

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The Nuclear Deal With Iran is a Foreign Policy Disaster

"For the first time in nearly a decade we have halted parts of Iran's nuclear program" announced a jubilant Barack Obama after the news of the...

November 21, 2013 12:38 pm

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Opinion: Conservatives Still Being Blamed for Lee Harvey Oswald

In a brilliant 2006 analysis, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter), James Piereson showed how liberals...