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Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, a member of the presidentially-appointed board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a columnist for the New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post.Pipes frequently discusses current issues on television, appearing on such U.S. programs as ABC World News, CBS Reports, Crossfire, Good Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor, and The Today Show. He has appeared on television networks around the globe, including the BBC and Al-Jazeera.
He has published in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, National Review, New Republic, Policy Review and The Weekly Standard. Many newspapers carry his articles, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, another hundred, plus hundreds of websites. His writings have been translated into nineteen languages and he has lectured in twenty-five countries.
Pipes received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University, both in history. Pipes speaks French and reads Arabic and German. He spent six years studying abroad, including three years in Egypt, where his activites included writing a book on colloquial Egyptian Arabic published in 1983. He has been awarded a honorary doctorates from universities in Switzerland and the United States.
Pipes has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. He has served in various capacities at the Departments of State and Defense. He sits on five editorial boards, has testified before many congressional committees, and worked on four presidential campaigns.
The Wall Street Journal calls him "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East." MSNBC describes him as one of the best-known "Mideast policy luminaries" [1]. CNN has called him one "of the country’s leading experts" on the Middle East. The Boston Globe wrote that "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11." [1]
In August 2003, news leaked of Pipes' imminent appointment to the government-sponsored U.S. Institute of Peace. Soon afterwards, a broad array of Arab, Muslim, and inter-faith religious groups vehemently denounced the appointment, claiming that Pipes was a racist, anti-Islamic extremist. Several Democratic senators, including Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut), then expressed opposition to the nomination and delayed a committee vote on it, though President Bush bypassed the Senate and went ahead with a recess appointment.
This incident is the latest in the series of confrontations he has had with various U.S-based Islamic groups, especially the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR charges that Pipes is an anti-Islamic bigot, while Pipes in turn maintains that CAIR is an apologist for Islamic terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. Links to CAIR's charges and Pipes' response to them are given below.
Pipes is also controversial in academia, where his generally neoconservative positions—especially his strong support for Israel and his argument that Islamism is a threat to the West—conflicts with the views of many Middle East studies scholars. Some academics such as John Esposito claim that Islamist movements can be forces for democratic progress. Pipes was also attacked by Edward Said who, though not formally in the field of Middle Eastern studies, exerted enormous influence over it with his book, Orientalism.
Pipes founded the Middle East Forum (www.MEForum.org), an independent 501(c)3 organization, in 1994. Its mission is to “promote American interests” through publications, research, consulting, media outreach, and public education. The Forum publishes two journals, the Middle East Quarterly (http://www.mequarterly.org ) and the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (http://www.MEIB.org ) and sponsors events in four cities.
The Middle East Forum sparked a controversy in September 2002 by establishing a web site called Campus Watch that claims to identify "five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students" in the teaching of Middle Eastern studies at American universities. Students are encouraged to submit reports regarding teachers, books and curricula.
Campus Watch was immediately labeled a "McCarthyist blacklist"; and similar epithets, not only by the listed academics but by more than 100 others who demanded to be listed as well.
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Radical Islam
Pipes has long expressed concern about the supposed danger of radical Islam to the Western world. As early as 1985, he wrote in Middle East Insight that "The scope of the radical fundamentalist’s ambition poses novel problems" for the United States [1]. In the fall 1995 issue of National Interest, he wrote: Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States. [1] . More specifically, four months before the attack on the twin towers, Pipes and Steven Emerson wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Al Qaeda was "planning new attacks on the US" and that Iranian operatives "helped arrange advanced ... training for Al Qaeda personnel in Lebanon where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings." [1]Arab-Israeli conflict
He wrote in Commentary in April 1990: "there can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is to be either naďve or duplicitous. If the last seventy years teach anything, it is that there can be only one state west of the Jordan River. Therefore, to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel." [1] The Dangers of Occupying Iraq
In April 1991, when a debate was raging about the desirability of a U.S. intervention against the Saddam Hussein regime, Pipes wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the prospect of U.S. forces occupying Iraq, "with Schwartzkopf Pasha ruling from Baghdad": "It sounds romantic, but watch out. Like the Israelis in southern Lebanon nine years ago, American troops would find themselves quickly hated, with Shi’as taking up suicide bombing, Kurds resuming their rebellion, and the Syrian and Iranian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American rule. Staying in place would become too painful, leaving too humiliating." [1]Arafat's Intentions at Oslo
Writing in the Forward within days of the signing of the Oslo Accords, Pipes observed: "Mr. Arafat has merely adopted a flexible approach to fit adverse circumstances, saying whatever needed to be said to survive. The PLO had not a change of heart — merely a change of policy. . . . the deal with Israel represents a lease on life for the PLO, enabling it to stay in business until Israel falters, when it can deal a death blow." [1]Organizations
Quotations
-- Fighting Militant Islam, Without Bias, City Journal, Autumn 2002
--Jerusalem Post, Jan 22, 2003. p.9
--Voices of Islam, New York Post, September 23, 2003
--National Review, November 19, 1990Publications
Pipes has also edited two collections of essays, Sandstorm (1993) and Friendly Tyrants (1991). He is the joint author of eleven books.External links