Middle East Forum Podcast

Joseph Humire is Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society. He is a global security expert specializing on transnational threats in the Western Hemisphere. He also provides regular briefings on international terrorism, transnational organized crime, Islamism and Iran’s influence Latin America to various entities within the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community. Mr....

Tom Quiggin has 30 years of practical experience in security and intelligence matters and is qualified as a court expert in the reliability of intelligence as evidence and on terrorism. His years of practical experience include a variety of intelligence positions for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Armed Forces, the United Nations Protection Force in Yugoslavia, Citizen and Immigra...

Winfield Myers, Director, Campus Watch (Project of the Middle East Forum) Winfield Myers is director of the Middle East Forum's Campus Watch, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing edit...

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi is a research fellow at the Middle East Forum where he focuses on violent non-state Islamic and Middle Eastern groups. He is a specialist on the Syrian Civil War, Iraqi Civil War and the Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant. With his family originally from Mosul, Iraq, Aymenn has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East including to YPG-controlled areas of Syria wher...

James G. Lindsay, Visiting fellow at The Washington Institute James G. Lindsay is a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on Palestinian refugee issues and UN humanitarian assistance. During 2000-2007, he served with the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), where he acted as legal advisor and general counsel and oversaw all UNRWA legal activities. Before his UNRWA service, Lindsay s...

Abha Shankar, Senior Intelligence Analyst at The Investigative Project on Terrorism. Before her position at The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Shankar worked as a Development and Publications Coordinator at Women in International Security. Shankar holds a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University and a Ph. D. from India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University in International Relat...

Islamism in Egypt: An interview with Cynthia Farahat – Exposing the Muslim Brotherhood and Unmasking al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia : An interview with Thomas Small - Documenting the “Path of Blood”

National Security Threats at the U.S. Border An interview with Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, on Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) illegally entering the United States. Islamist terror cells within the U.S. An interview with Ryan Mauro, national security analyst and director of Clarion Intelligence Network for the Clarion Project, on the recent ca...

Clifford Smith, Director of the Middle East Forum’s Washington Project Cliff Smith is MEF's liaison to decision makers and opinion leaders in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. from Washington State University, an M.P.P. with a focus on international relations from Pepperdine University, and a law degree from the Catholic University of America. He is a member of the Maryland Bar. An experienced poli...

Winfield Myers, Director, Campus Watch (Project of the Middle East Forum) Winfield Myers is director of the Middle East Forum's Campus Watch, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing edit...

Congressman Paul Gosar United States Representative from Arizona’s 4thCongressional District Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S., is serving his fourth term in Congress as the Representative from Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District. First elected in 2010, he came to Congress with no prior political experience. Paul believes that the Constitution is the cornerstone of our Republic, and always pursues policie...

Today’s Guests Daniel Pipes, President Middle East Forum Abraham D. Sofaer, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Emeritus. Abraham Sofaer is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then a Legal Adviser to the United States State Department. After resigning from the State Depa...

Netanyahu’s lingering police investigations have left the prime minister with no reliable coalition allies and made it difficult for him to resolve key issues before next year’s general elections as he puts the stability of his government ahead of problem solving. Yet it is difficult to see how this will harm his immediate reelection prospects. Ultimately, the Israeli voter’s priority centers on s...

The Iran Nuclear Deal is perhaps the most discussed and least understood issues of the day, which is why the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) presents this Town Hall meeting. The panel included Gregg Roman, Director of the Middle East Forum, Nitin Chadda, Director on the National Security Staff at the White House, Congressman Frank LoBiondo, Yaron Sideman, Consul General of Israel, and Dr...