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Middle
East Forum Writing Fellows Now Sponsored and Named
June 30, 2014
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PHILADELPHIA, June 30, 2014 – The Middle East Forum is pleased to
announce new sponsorships of existing Writing Fellows.
"The Middle East Forum relies on the generous support of private
individuals, families and foundations," said Daniel Pipes, president
of the Forum. "We thank the Wax family, Judith Friedman Rosen, the
Hochberg Family, and an anonymous donor, for helping to ensure the
success of our Writing Fellowship Program."
The Forum's Writing Fellowship Program provides timely analysis
by specialists on the most pressing problems. Fellows shine a light on controversial
and difficult issues others avoid – questioning assumptions, provoking
thought, and offering new solutions for policy makers.
The Forum's newly sponsored fellows:
David Goldman – Wax Family Writing Fellow focuses on economics,
demography, and religion. He served as global head of credit strategy for
Credit Suisse (1998-2002), global head of debt research for Bank of
America (2002-05), and senior editor at the magazine First Things
(2009-2011). Mr. Goldman is a regular guest on CNBC's Kudlow Report
and also has frequently appeared on Fox News. He is the author of How Civilizations Die (and why Islam is Dying, Too)
(2011). He has contributed to many publications, including the
Middle East Quarterly, Commentary, and Wall Street Journal.
In September 2013 he joined Reorient Group, a Hong Kong investment bank,
as Managing Director and Head of Americas.
Raymond Ibrahim – Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow is a
Middle East and Islam specialist who previously served as associate
director of the Middle East Forum. He is author of Crucified Again:
Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (2013) and The
Al Qaeda Reader (2007). His writings have appeared in a variety
of media, including the Middle East Quarterly, Chronicle of
Higher Education, Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, Los Angeles
Times, Washington Times, and World Almanac of Islamism.
He has appeared on Al-Jazeera, C-SPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, and
Reuters. Mr. Ibrahim regularly lectures, briefs governmental agencies,
provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and testifies
before Congress.
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz – Hochberg Family Writing Fellow is a
historian of the Middle East, and a native of East German who was raised
in Egypt. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Leipzig
University. He has taught at five universities, and served as head of
Middle Eastern history at the Academy of Science in Berlin. Schwanitz has
been a visiting fellow at the French Center in Cairo, Princeton
University and the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. The
author of five and the editor of ten books, Schwanitz has published some
150 scholarly articles and over 400 newspaper and magazine pieces on
modern Middle Eastern history and international relations. The Middle
East Forum supported archival research for his books, Islam in
Europe, Revolts in the Middle East (2013); German Middle
Eastern Studies after 9/11 (2014); and Nazis,
Islamists and the Modern Middle East, with Barry Rubin (2014).
Jonathan Spyer (funded by an anonymous donor) is a Middle East
analyst focusing on Syria, Lebanon and Israeli strategic affairs. He is a
senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs
Center in Israel. Spyer holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the
London School of Economics and an M.A. in Middle East Politics from the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Author of The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist
Conflict (2011), Spyer is a columnist at the Jerusalem Post.
He has written for the Middle East Quarterly, The Guardian, Ha'aretz,
National Post, The Times, Wall Street Journal, Weekly
Standard, and appeared on al-Jazeera, BBC World, CNN,
Fox News, and Sky News.
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The Middle East Forum promotes American interests in the Middle East
and protects Western values at home through intellectual, activist, and
philanthropic efforts.
For Immediate Release
For more information, contact:
Amy Shargel, Director, Middle East Forum
Shargel@MEForum.org
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