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'So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country [Palestine] and multiplied till their population has increased.' --Winston Churchill in 1938 '[T]he Arab immigration into Palestine since [...]

Netanyahu's Plan On Feb. 22, 2024, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his Security Cabinet with a short document, 'The Day After Hamas.' His office calls it 'principles reflecting a [...]

Judging by the way Netanyahu has managed Gaza in the last 13 years, it is not certain that there will be a clear policy going forward. --Tal Schneider, Times of [...]

Summer 2023 https://www.meforum.org/64465/muslim-africans-harrowing-journey-to-israel 'I was dancing with joy when I arrived. It was one of the happiest days of my life.' So spoke Ismail Abdul-Rasul, a father of four from [...]

In 1933, an exasperated British ambassador to Iraq dressed down the country's King Faisal. 'Was I to report to my government,' he asked rhetorically, that Iraq's public men, men who [...]

THE STATE OF ISRAEL celebrates its 75th birthday in 2023, a year that will also mark a major but generally unnoticed milestone in the Arab-Israeli conflict. During Israel's first 25 [...]

Hijab: Word of God or Word of Man? By John Andrew Morrow. Academica Press, 2023. 425 pp. $99.95. 'The subject of sitr or covering is far more nuanced than we [...]

In The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood's Industry of Death (New York: Bombardier, 2022), an ambitious and powerful book by Cynthia Farahat, she argues that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), founded [...]

Islam's 'flavor is unmistakable on whatever it touched.' -- Gustave von Grunebaum The Qur'an forbids Muslims to eat, drink, smoke, or engage in sexual relations during daylight hours in the [...]

Charles Huber: France's Greatest Arabian Explorer. By William Facey. Arabian Publishing Ltd., 2022. 552 pp. $36.45. Huber (1847-84) tends to be overlooked in the pantheon of great European explorers of [...]

I commend Yossi Kuperwasser for his subtle and knowledgeable analysis. That said, I believe his plan makes Hamas potentially more, not less, dangerous to Israel. He advocates that Israel end [...]

The preface does not shy from declaring the politics that inspires what follows. The volume fits into something called the Critical Arab American Studies book series that raises and addresses [...]

Arabs and Jews in the Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide by Alan Dowty Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 303 pp. $65 ($25, paper). 'Could a sharp-eyed observer of mid-nineteenth-century Palestine [...]

Reclamation: A Cultural Policy for Arab-Israeli Partnership by Joseph Braude Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2019. 162 pp. Free download. Braude, founder and head of the Center [...]

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 317 pp. $26.95. Kessler, a think tanker and [...]

Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel by Ehud Olmert Washington: Brooking Institution Press, 2022. 352 pp. $27.99. The first thing of note about this memoir by a former prime [...]

Overcoming Orientalism: Essays in Honor of John L. Esposito Edited by Tamara Sonn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 361 pp. $99. On the surface, this festschrift is as conventional [...]

Muslim-Christian Relations in Damascus amid the 1860 Riot by Rana Abu-Mounes Leiden: Brill, 2022. 256 pp. $125. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx stand out as two of modern Europe's most [...]

Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940 by Stefanos Katsikas New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 265 pp. [pounds sterling]64. Noting the under-researched nature of his topic, Katsikas offers the [...]

In the Lions Den: Israel and the World by Danny Danon Foreword by Nikki Haley. New York: Wicked Son, 2022. 204 pp. $28. Danon is a talented fighter for Israel. [...]

Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right by Jeffrey M. Bale and Tamir Bar-On Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 438 pp. $135 ($50, [...]

Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 by Amit Prakash Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 267 pp. [pounds sterling]75. Prakash, a visiting assistant professor of [...]

A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America by Sofia Ali-Khan New York: Random House, 2022. 397 pp. $28.99. In a shameless, [...]

The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent. By Stephen Smith. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity, 2019. 197 pp. $69.95 ($22.95, paper; $18, ebook). Smith, professor of [...]

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future. By Geoffrey Cain. New York: PublicAffairs, 2021. 287 pp. $17.99. Prior colonial rulers--the Spanish in [...]

Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam. By Yasmine Mohammed. Victoria, B.C.: Free Hearts Free Minds, 2019. 278 pp. $23. The subtitle promises a dry analysis, but Mohammed delivers instead [...]

Leaving the Allah Delusion Behind: Atheism and Freethought in Islam. By Ibn Warraq. Berlin/Tubingen: Schiler & Mucke, 2020. 745 pp. [euro]68. Having written and edited a small library of books [...]

Jews and the Qur'an. By Meir M. Bar-Asher. Trans. by Ethan Rundell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 167 pp. $24.95. Bar-Asher, professor of Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of [...]

European Islamophobia Report 2020. Edited by Enes Bayrakli and Farid Hafez. Vienna: Leopold Weiss Institute, 2021. 886 pp. Gratis. This massive tome, now in its sixth annual edition, draws on [...]

Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal. Edited by Michael W. Suleiman, Suad Joseph, and Louise Cainkar. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 480 pp. $55, paper. For many centuries, the word [...]

Countering Islamophobia in North America: A Quality-of-Life Approach. By el-Sayed el-Aswad. New York: Springer, 2021. $74.99 ($59.99, ebook). The Muslims-as-victims campaign has turned into a significant cottage industry, with university [...]

Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space. By Yahia Shawkat. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. 312 pp. $49.95. One can justly bemoan the cozy, semi-corrupt symbiosis [...]

The article offers a perspective on the partial victory of Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict after six Arab states opened diplomatic relations. It considers the rise of Islamists, anti-Iran alliances and the Palestinian-Israeli, Islamist-Israeli and leftist-Israeli conflicts as events that exacerbated the weakness of Arab states. It discusses implications of these conflicts for Israel including the possibility of all-out attack by conventional armies and revival of anti-Zionism.