'''Stephen Schwartz''' is the Executive Director of the [[Center for Islamic Pluralism]] in Washington, D.C. [http://www.islamicpluralism.org/bios.htm]In a 2003 article in [[National Review Online]], Schwartz describes himself as one of three former Trotskyites who supported the war in Iraq. (The other two he identified are [[Christopher Hitchens]] and [[Kanan Makiya]]). "One thing must be observed here: We are almost alone among younger [[neoconservatives]] in boasting such credentials," he wrote. [http://nationalreview.com/comment/comment-schwartz061103.asp] A brief biographical note on the ''FrontPage'' website describes him as "a vociferous critic of [[Wahhabism]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12069-2002Dec19¬Found=true][http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ikalmar/illustex/geertz%20mecca%201.htm][http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory111802.asp], Schwartz is a frequent contributor to [[National Review]], The [[Weekly Standard]], [[FrontPage]], and other publications."[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=321] Based on its 2005 annual financial return to the Internal Revenue Service, Schwartz is CIP's only full-time employee. CIP states in its annual return that Schwartz's salary is just $30,000.
In December 2004 he was touring with [[Husain Haqqani]], a [[neocon]] connected Pakistani. In an article Schwartz was described as being the "executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based [[Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace]] (IIPP)." [http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2004/02/12/news/local/cmuslim0213.txt]
A brief biographical note on the ''FrontPage'' website describes him as "a vociferous critic of [[Wahhabism]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12069-2002Dec19¬Found=true][http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ikalmar/illustex/geertz%20mecca%201.htm][http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory111802.asp], Schwartz is a frequent contributor to [[National Review]], The [[Weekly Standard]], [[FrontPage]], and other publications."[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=321]
On June 6, 2003, Schwartz participated in a conference organized by the [[Foundation for the Defense of Democracies]] on [http://www.defenddemocracy.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=170068&attrib_id=7597 "Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe?"].
==Published Works==
===Poetry===
* Antinarcissus (1969)
* A Sleepwalker’s Guide to San Francisco (1983)
* Heaven’s Descent (1990)
* *Ëndërrimi në shqip/Dreaming in Albanian, Skopje/Shkup [Macedonia], Fakti, 2003.
===Non-Fiction===
*Brotherhood of the Sea: A History of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, 1885-1985, New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1986. ISBN 0-88738-121-9.
*The Transition: From Authoritarianism to Democracy in the Hispanic World, San Francisco, ICS Press, 1987 (Ed., with essays by Octavio Paz, Heberto Padilla, and others).
*Intellectuals and Assassins, London, Anthem Press, 2000. ISBN 1-898855-55-2.
*Stephen Schwartz, ''The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror'', Doubleday, October 2002. ISBN 0385506929
*Ëndërrimi në shqip/Dreaming in Albanian, Skopje/Shkup [Macedonia], Fakti, 2003.
*''Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook''. London: Saqi Books, 2005. ISBN 0-86356-592-1.
*''Is It Good for the Jews?: The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby.'' New York: Doubleday, 2006. ISBN 0-385-51025-X.
== External Links links ==
===Biographical Notes===
*"[http://www.islamicpluralism.org/bios.htm Stephen Schwartz]", ''Center for Islamic Pluralism'', accessed May 2005.
*[http://www.defenddemocracy.org/search/search_results.htm?searchstring=Stephen+Schwartz&x=3&y=3 Search results for Schwartz] at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
*[http://jamestown.org/terrorism/analysts.php?authorid=146 Schwartz's biography on the website of the Jamestown Foundation].
*"[http://cprw.com/schwartz2.htm Contributor: U.S.: Stephen Schwartz]", ''Contemporary Poetry Review'', accessed February 2007.
*"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Schwartz_(journalist) Stephen Schwartz (journalist)]", ''Wikipedia''.
==Articles and Presentations By Scwartz==
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=321 Schwartz's FrontPage Magazine articles].
* Stephen Schwartz, "[http://www.sffaith.com/ed/articles/2000/0500ss.htm Behind the Balkan Curtain]". ''San Francisco Faith'', May 2000.
* Stephen Schwartz, "[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4178 Defeating Wahhabism]". ''FrontPage Magazine'', October 25, 2002.
* Stephen Schwartz, "A Different Kind of Filial Piety". ''Wall Street Journal'', February 10, 1999.
* Stephen Schwartz, "[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=061505D Follies of the MSM]". ''Tech Central Station'', June 15, 2005.
* Stephen Schwartz, "Ground Zero and the Saudi Connection". ''The Spectator'', September 22, 2001.
*Stephen Schwartz, "[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6224 Remembering an SLA Terrorist]". ''FrontPage Magazine'', February 20, 2003.
*Stephen Schwartz, "[http://www.defenddemocracy.org/usr_doc/Stephen_Schwartz.doc Transcript of remarks by Stephen Schwartz at "Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe" Conference]", June 6, 2003. (40k Word file).
* Stephen Schwartz, "[http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-schwartz061103.asp Trotskycons?]", ''National Review Online'', June 11, 2003.
===General Articles===
*Clifford Geertz, "[http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ikalmar/illustex/geertz%20mecca%201.htm Which Way to Mecca? Part II]", ''New York Review of Books'', Volume 50, Number 11, July 3, 2003.
*Marilyn H. Karfeld, "[http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2004/02/12/news/local/cmuslim0213.txt Muslim majority is tired of extremists]", ''Cleveland Jewish News.com'', February 13, 2004.
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