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

November 6, 2012 1:38 pm

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Why I Feel Like a Stranger When U.S. Presidential Elections Roll Around

It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That's because news reports blare out what's not of interest:...

October 23, 2012 10:29 am

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Foreign Policy Debate: Missed Opportunity for Romney

The final presidential debate focused disproportionately on the Middle East. Four of the six segments were on the Middle East, just two on other topics (one...

October 21, 2012 4:37 am

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Syrian Misadventure

Why does the Turkish government act so aggressively against the Assad regime of Syria? Perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hopes that lobbing artillery shells into...

October 17, 2012 10:12 am

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Reflections on the Second Presidential Candidates’ Debate

Yesterday's presidential debate, the second between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, featured some very sharp disagreements over facts that almost no viewers can judge (such as...

October 15, 2012 7:48 pm

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Netanyahu Again Offers the Golan Heights to Syria?

Shimon Shiffer reports in Yedioth Ahronoth that in secret talks in 2010 via U.S. government mediator Frederic C. Hof, Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed in...

October 12, 2012 9:43 am

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Opinion: Impressions of the Veep Debate

Three reactions to the Joe Biden-Paul Ryan debate last night: Middle East dominance: The foreign policy aspects of the debate focused almost exclusively on Libya, Israel, Syria,...

October 5, 2012 12:26 am

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Post-Mortem on the Muhammad Protests

Protesters tearing down the American flag at U.S. embassy in Cairo earlier this year. Photo: screenshot. As Muslim crowds dissipate...

September 23, 2012 2:06 am

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A Muhammad Cartoon a Day

When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in 1989 in his magical realist novel The Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He pronounced a death...

September 4, 2012 1:36 pm

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Romney vs. Obama Vis-à-Vis Israel

"President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus." That's what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his...

August 21, 2012 2:28 pm

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Wait Out the War in Syria

Bashar al-Assad's wretched presence in the Presidential Palace of Damascus may, contrary to Western assumptions, do more good than harm. His murderous, terroristic, and pro-Tehran...

August 8, 2012 1:22 pm

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Spy vs. Spy, America vs. Israel

Israelis spying on Americans is in the news again: leaders of the Jewish state just petitioned for Jonathan Pollard's release and the Associated Press reported...

July 29, 2012 4:05 pm

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Romney’s Remarkable Speech in Jerusalem

Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican presidential candidate, delivered a stem-winder of a speech to the Jerusalem Foundation today, packing emotional support with frank policy statements. The...

July 2, 2012 1:35 pm

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Will the Middle East Lose Its Importance?

In a provocative and well executed article in the July/August issue of the National Interest, "The Fading Arab Oil Empire," Paul D. Miller, assistant...

June 28, 2012 11:20 am

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Mavi Marmara 2010 = Syrian Anti-Aircraft 2012

As the days go by, the Turkish handling of its airplane downed by the Syrian military on June 23 increasingly echoes the Mavi Marmara episode...