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

December 31, 2014 11:29 am

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Did Sweden Commit National Suicide on Immigration Measure?

Woe to anyone in Sweden who dissents from the orthodox view that welcoming large numbers of indigent peoples from such countries as Iraq, Syria, and...

December 12, 2014 12:43 am

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Bahrain Prince Condemns Islamic Violence

In a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Bahrain (an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf...

December 1, 2014 8:17 am

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The UAE Finally Exposes CAIR as a Terrorist Organization

We who follow the Islamist movement fell off our collective chair on November 15, when the news came that the United Arab Emirates' ministerial cabinet had...

November 27, 2014 2:45 pm

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Thoughts on the P5+1 Negotiations With Tehran

The Nov. 24 deadline came and went for an agreement between the powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran; on that date, they managed only...

October 21, 2014 7:24 am

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ISIS Justifies Its Yazidi Slaves

That the Islamic State (ISIS) has enslaved Yazidi women and children it captured is an established fact; for example, a United Nations report found that "300 [Yazidi]...

October 15, 2014 11:37 am

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Why is Congress Funding Biased Reports on the Middle East?

In return for receiving taxpayer funds for foreign regional studies, universities must agree, according to Title VI of the Higher Education Act (HAE), to conduct...

October 14, 2014 1:58 pm

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Opinion: Islamist Groups Are Contributing More to Democrats Than Republicans by a Ratio of 17 to 1

In politics, the adage goes, follow the money. And so, data abound for contributions from trial lawyers, insurance brokers, and even optometrists. But what about Islamists,...

October 8, 2014 6:46 am

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Human Suffering and Starvation Grow in Egypt

Egypt, famed for millennia as the "breadbasket of the Mediterranean," now faces alarming food shortages. A startlingly candid report in Cairo's Al-Ahram newspaper by Gihan...

October 1, 2014 10:53 am

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Welcome to Multicultural America

The Center for Immigration Studies finds that the foreign-born population of the United States numbers 41.3 million, or one out of six adults, more than twice...

September 24, 2014 11:09 am

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Turkey’s Erdogan Fails to Win Over New York City

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, appeared at an hour-long on-the-record event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York yesterday afternoon. The complete...

September 18, 2014 7:03 am

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What Egypt’s President Sisi Really Thinks

Former air marshal Husni Mubarak, now 86, had ruled Egypt for 30 years when his military colleagues forced him from office in 2011. Three years...

September 17, 2014 10:19 am

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Why We Should Support a Unified Kurdistan

Is a united and independent Kurdistan a prospect we should welcome, or a dangerous idea that would create far more problems in the Middle East...

September 16, 2014 6:44 am

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Liberal Think Tanks for Sale or Rent

In an eyebrow-raising 4,000-word exposé, "Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks," published in the New York Times on September 7, Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams, and Nicholas Confessore look...

September 12, 2014 1:55 am

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ISIS Is Not Islamic?

In a televised address on Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama outlined his ideas on how to defeat the Islamic State. Along the way, he declared the...