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Guest David Reaboi
David Reaboi serves as the Vice President of the Security Studies Group. He has spent the last decade as consultant in national security and political warfare. He works at the intersection of communications and policy, specializing in Sunni Islamist movements. He received a BA from George Washington University in International Affairs, with a concentration in…
Guests Benjamin Baird and Ofra Bengio
Benjamin Baird is a writer for Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. He is a graduate of Middle Eastern studies from the American Military University, a member of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, and a US Army infantry veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. @BenjiBaird // https://twitter.com/benjibaird Professor…
Guests Aaron Balshan and Kyle Shideler
Aaron Balshan currently operates the Partisan Digest. He has worked in Open Source Intelligence Analysis (OSINT) for almost a decade. He is a Staff Sergeant in the Israeli Defense Forces and former Associate Director of Intelligence at an Israeli-based private security firm. Aaron most recently worked as a researcher at Harvard University's Kennedy School, where…
Guests Samantha Mandeles & Winfield Myers
Samantha Mandeles serves as the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch coordinator. She joined MEF after coordinating anti-BDS faculty efforts for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and managing distribution for Americans for Peace and Tolerance's documentary film Hate Spaces. After earning her M.A. in Israel, she served as senior campus coordinator and editor-in-chief for…
Guest Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes has led the Forum since 1994. He served in five U.S. administrations, received two presidential appointments, and testified before many congressional committees. He is the author of sixteen books on the Middle East, Islam, and other topics. Mr. Pipes writes a column for the Washington Times and his work has been translated into 37 languages. DanielPipes.org contains…