Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes is president of the Middle East Forum. His bi-weekly column appears regularly in the Washington Times and in newspapers around the globe, including the Israel Hayom (Israel), La Razón (Spain), Liberal (Italy), National Post (Canada), and the Australian. His special interests include the role of Islam in public life, Turkey, Syria, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S. foreign policy.

Nation-building in Afghanistan, Iraq was never going to work

Daniel Pipes September 20, 2021

As usual, after World War I, victors plundered losers, especially the German one. The victors demanded the payment of huge...

German and Austrian media outrage me

Daniel Pipes September 21, 2018

Originally published on washingtontimes.com: Europe’s mainstream media has reached a point of distorted frenzy about what it calls the “far-right”...

Islamism

An Arab prince denounces Islamism

Daniel Pipes December 12, 2014

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

Middle East

Hunger growls in Egypt

Daniel Pipes October 7, 2014

Egypt, famed for millennia as the "breadbasket of the Mediterranean," now faces alarming food shortages. A startlingly candid report in...

Welcome, Kurdistan

Daniel Pipes September 11, 2014

Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past....

Islamism

Talking Turkey with an Islamist academician

Daniel Pipes August 28, 2014

As Recep Tayyip Erdogan ascends Thursday to the presidency of Turkey, his hand-picked successor, Ahmet Davutoglu, simultaneously assumes Mr. Erdogan's...