FDD Morning Brief

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Firas Maksad, a senior fellow and the senior director for outreach at the Middle East Institute, an adjunct professor at GWU’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a foreign policy contributor at The Wall Street Journal and The Washin...

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Ghaith Al-Omari, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who previously held various positions within the Palestinian Authority. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Col. (Res). Kobi Marom, an Israeli national security expert who has been closely following the developments in the Middle East before and since 10/7, particularly on Israel’s northern border. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Eli Lake, national security reporter at Bari Weiss' The Free Press, whose work has been closely covering the developments in the Middle East since 10/7 and Israel's war to dismantle Hamas. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate student at Harvard and the leading voice behind the antisemitism lawsuit against the university. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines out of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Ambassador Joshua Zarka, Israel's Ambassador to France and an expert on Iran. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Advisor Richard Goldberg delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the latest headlines and developments in Israel, Lebanon, and beyond, followed by a conversation with Morgan Ortagus, Former Spokesperson for the United States Department of State and founder of Polaris National Security. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Carrie Filipetti, Executive Director of The Vandenberg Coalition. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Former Israeli Minister for Congressional Affairs. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Brett Schaefer, Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Steven Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with David Adesnik, Senior Fellow and Director of Research at FDD. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Asaf Romirowsky, Executive Director of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa and of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

Former IDF Spokesperson and FDD Senior Fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines out of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with former Canadian ambassador to Israel, Vivian Bercovici. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University. They discuss the explosion of extremist ideology in American educational institutions, exemplified by the pro-Hamas demonstrations that have erupted on...

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Rep. Mike McCaul, Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee and Republican Congressman of Texas's 10th District. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Roya Hakakian, senior fellow at American Purpose and Iranian-American author and journalist. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Martin Kramer, esteemed American-Israeli scholar of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His prescient book, "Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America" looks at the problematic nature of M...

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East and pro-Hamas activism on American university campuses, followed by a conversation with Loay Alshareef, Saudi social media influencer and outspoken advocate for normalization between the Arab world and Israel. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Samer Sinijlawi, Palestinian activist, member of the Fatah shadow leadership, and Chairman of the Jerusalem Development Fund. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL). A combat-decorated army veteran, he serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism Subcommittee. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Jacob Baime, Chief Executive Officer of the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), for a discussion on the explosion of pro-Hamas protests that have erupted in educational institutions across the U.S. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on Israel, Iran, and the wars in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Behnam Ben Taleblu, FDD Senior Fellow and expert on Iranian missiles. They discuss the recent aerial barrage by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel's response. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

Former IDF Spokesperson and FDD Senior Fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus delivers timely situational updates after an alleged Israeli strike in Iran. He is joined by former Head IDF Intelligence Research Division and Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

Senior Director of FDD's Israel Program Enia Krivine delivers timely situational updates and analysis on Israel, Iran, Hamas, and the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Lazar Berman, Diplomatic Correspondent at the Times of Israel. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/