Daniel Pipes is a historian, author, and commentator specializing in the Middle East and Islam. He is the founder and president of the Middle East Forum and a widely published analyst of regional politics and Islamism. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering topics including Turkey, Syria, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Only 12 years ago, the Republic of Turkey was correctly seen as the model of a pro-Western Muslim state, and a bridge between Europe and the Middle East. A strong military bond with the Pentagon undergirded broader economic and cultural ties with Americans. And then, starting with the 2002…
Itamar Rabinovich has unique credentials for writing about the failed peace talks Syria and Israel held from 1992 to 1996. He is a leading academic specialist on both Syria and Arab-Israeli negotiations, and he served during the 1990s as the Israeli ambassador to the United States and as Israel's…
WHEN THE MERCEDES LIMOUSINE crashed in Paris during that awful night two months ago, reaction in most of the world dwelt on the sad fate that had befallen Diana, Princess of Wales. But not so in Egypt and the rest of the Arab Middle East.
In March 1989, shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini issued his .decree sentencing Salman Rushdie to death for his novel The Satanic Verses, London's Observer newspaper published an anonymous letter from Pakistan. "Salman Rushdie speaks for me," wrote its author, who explained: "Mine is a voice that has…
WHEN YASIR ARAFAT SHOOK HANDS with Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in September 1993, he made two main promises: to include in his public statements that the PLO "encourages and calls upon" Palestinians to take part in "rejecting violence and terrorism"; and to "achieve coexistence" with…