Daniel Pipes is an American

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 historian, writer, and political commentator. He is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum

Middle East Forum

The Middle East Forum is an American conservative think tank founded in 1990 by Daniel Pipes, who also serves as its director. MEF became a 5013 non-profit organization in 1994...

 and its Campus Watch

Campus Watch

Campus Watch is a web-based project of the Middle East Forum, a think tank with its headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to its website, Campus Watch "reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them." Critics of Campus Watch say that it is a...

 project, and editor of its Middle East Quarterly

Middle East Quarterly

Middle East Quarterly is a peer reviewed quarterly journal, a publication of the American conservative think tank Middle East Forum founded by Daniel Pipes in 1994. It is devoted to subjects relating to the Middle East and Islam and analyzes the region "explicitly from the viewpoint of American...

journal. His writing focuses on the American foreign policy, the Middle East, Islam

Islam

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 and Islamism

Islamism

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After graduating with a PhD from Harvard and studying abroad, Pipes taught at a number of universities. He then served as director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Foreign Policy Research Institute is an American neoconservative think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S...

, before founding the Middle East Forum.