Hassan Mneimneh is a scholar and analyst specializing in Middle Eastern politics, Islamic thought, and Arab affairs. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2008 and 2011, writing on topics including the Syrian regime, Hamas, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has been affiliated with several Washington-based policy research institutions focused on the broader Middle East.
There is no fundamental reason to resist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state, despite its sizable Palestinian population. Surely Netanyahu is not suggesting any Israeli citizen be denied equal rights. Nor is he advocating the implementation of…
There is a distinct novelty in the current war in Gaza. While much of the Arab broadcast media displays graphic scenes of and outrage about the mounting Palestinian casualties, print media in the Arab world is steering in the direction of a far more nuanced position that recognizes, albeit often…
Seven years after 9/11, Washington policymakers remain fundamentally confused about the nature of Islamist extremism, the ideas behind it and the states that manipulate it. In few places is this problem more obvious than in the U.S. relationship with the secular Assad regime in Syria.