Middle East Forum Podcast

Michel Gurfinkiel, founder of the Paris-based Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute and a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum, spoke to Middle East Forum Radio host Gregg Roman on February 12 about the consequences of massive Muslim immigration into France.

After 4 years of research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science & Technology, MIGAL’s researchers have developed an effective vaccine against avian coronavirus Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV), to be adapted soon and create a human vaccine against COVID-19.

Benjamin Baird researches Islamist activity in Washington DC and state capitals across the country, organizes to counter these efforts, and educates the public, the media, and politicians on the threat posed by Islamist involvement in politics. He is a decorated U.S. Army infantry veteran and frequent contributor to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, The Daily Caller, and other prominent medi...

Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 deploys taxpayer funds to train specialists in the languages and area studies of key world regions. For many years, however, Middle East studies centers have abused the program by using its funds to support anti-American, pro-Islamist research, teaching, and outreach efforts. In effect, taxpayers subsidize the undermining of their own security. Campus W...

Guests Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, International Spokesperson of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and Dr. Martin Kramer, American-Israeli scholar of the Middle East.

Hezbollah has anointed a new government in Lebanon and every president since Lyndon B. Johnson's effort to try to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians has failed. Will Trump's?

Clifford Smith, the director of the Middle East Forum's Washington Project, spoke on January 22 to Middle East Forum Radio co-host Gary C. Gambill about the Emirate of Qatar's propaganda media conglomerate, Al Jazeera, and its success in flouting American lawsconcerning foreign state-controlled media outlets operating in the U.S.

Bilal A. Wahab joins MEF radio co-host Gary Gambill to discuss the mass protest movement emerging in Iran.

Patrick Clawson, Morningstar Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and nationally recognized investigative reporter and war correspondent, Ken Timmerman join Middle East Forum Radio for the latest on US-Iran tensions.

The last MEF Radio episode of 2019 features Cliff May, president and founder of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Aya Burweila, senior fellow at the Research Institute for European and American Studies.

This week on MEF Radio: Once an ally of the United States, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey has increasingly positioned itself as an enemy of the West in nearly every way that it’s possible to do so, such as nuclear weapons aspirations, support for local Islamists in the U.S. and Europe, aggression in Syria, flooding Europe with migrants, and tyrannical oppression of its own citizens.

Michael Pregent reports on internal conflagrations in Iraq and Jonathan Tobin reviews the latest US policy responses to similar domestic turmoil in Iran.

The latest from the Middle East.

Tony Badran is a research fellow at FDD, where he focuses on Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria, and the geopolitics of the Levant. Born and raised in Lebanon, Tony has testified to the House of Representatives on several occasions regarding U.S. policy toward Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. His research currently focuses on the relationship between Iran’s Hezbollah model and regional states, as well as the hist...

With Tony Badran and Anne Barnard.

Fatima Alasrar is a Senior Analyst with the Arabia Foundation. Prior to joining the Arabia Foundation, Alasrar was the MENA director for Cure Violence, a research associate at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a Mason fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, and an international policy fellow at the Open Society Foundations. From 2006-2012, she worked as an advisor for the Embassy o...

Can Israel win its next war? If so, what does a victory look like?

Josh London serves as Director of Government Affairs at The Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Formerly a lobbyist with the Zionist Organization of America and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, he also served as the Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center. Bradley Martin is a senior fellow with the news and public-policy group Haym Salomon Center, and D...

David Sterman is a senior policy analyst at New America and holds a master's degree from Georgetown’s Center for Security Studies. His current research focuses on terrorism and violent extremism in America, immigration and terrorist threats, foreign fighter recruitment, and the effectiveness and consequences of American counterterrorism efforts. In the past, he edited Foreign Policy Magazine’s Sou...

Aaron David Miller is a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center and among America’s foremost experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. policy in the Middle East. Miller is a former adviser to six secretaries of state where he has helped shape America’s policy in the region for more than two decades where he has helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace...

May's episodes of the Israel Victory Podcast featuring Joshua Hasten, Daniel Seaman, Rachel Touitou and Daniela Giulia Traub discuss making sense of Palestinian logic, as described in Daniel Pipes’s latest article in The Jerusalem Post. and why Palestinians are deserting the Gaza Strip; Why the Trump plan will not work and the end of “occupation” will not end the conflict; and how the Eurovision c...

May's episodes of the Israel Victory Podcast featuring Joshua Hasten, Daniel Seaman, Rachel Touitou and Daniela Giulia Traub discuss making sense of Palestinian logic, as described in Daniel Pipes’s latest article in The Jerusalem Post. and why Palestinians are deserting the Gaza Strip; Why the Trump plan will not work and the end of “occupation” will not end the conflict; and how the Eurovision c...

May's episodes of the Israel Victory Podcast featuring Joshua Hasten, Daniel Seaman, Rachel Touitou and Daniela Giulia Traub discuss making sense of Palestinian logic, as described in Daniel Pipes’s latest article in The Jerusalem Post. and why Palestinians are deserting the Gaza Strip; Why the Trump plan will not work and the end of “occupation” will not end the conflict; and how the Eurovision c...

Gary C. Gambill is a Philadelphia-based policy analyst specializing in the Arab world and the web editor at the Middle East Forum. Formerly editor of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin and Mideast Monitor, Gambill is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and The National Post. A.J. Caschetta is a principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he teaches...

Danny Seamen is Director of MEF-Israel and a 31-year veteran of the Israeli government, having served as Director of the Government Press Office and Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. Since retiring from government, Mr. Seaman has been a media consultant and worked as bureau chief of Voice of Israel, an English language Talk Radio station, as well as...