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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]]''.
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| − | Pipes discusses terrorism and Middle East affairs on television, frequently appearing on American network television, including ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'', ''CBS Reports'', ''[[Crossfire]]'', ''[[Good Morning America]]'', ''[[NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]]'', ''[[Nightline]]'', ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'', and ''[[The Today Show]]''. He has also appeared on the ''[[BBC]]'' and ''[[Al-Jazeera]]'', and has published in 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]]'', and ''[[Washington Post]]'', as do hundreds of websites. His writings have been translated into nineteen languages and he has lectured in twenty-five countries.
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| − | ==Education and Career==
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| − | 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]].
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| − | 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]], [[O’Reilly Factor]], and [[The Today Show]]. He has appeared on leading television networks around the globe, including the [[BBC]] and [[Al-Jazeera]].
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| − | Pipes has published in such magazines as the [[Atlantic Monthly]], [[Commentary]], [[Foreign Affairs]], [[Harper's]], [[National Review]], [[New Republic]], 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.
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| − | He has taught at the [[University of Chicago]], [[Harvard University]], and the [[U.S. Naval War College]]. He has served in various capacities at the [[Department of State|Departments of State]] and [[Department of Defense|Defense]], sits on five editorial boards, has testified before many congressional committees, and has worked on four presidential campaigns.
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| − | ==Praise and controversy==
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| − | The ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' has called Pipes "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East." [[MSNBC]] described him as one of the best-known "Mideast policy luminaries" [http://www.msnbc.com/news/660672.asp]. [[CNN]] referred to him one "of the country’s leading experts" on the Middle East. The ''Boston Globe'' wrote, "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1129]
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| − | A [[1983]] ''[[Washington Post]]'' book review noted that Pipes displays "a disturbing hostility to contemporary Muslims ... he professes respect for Muslims but is frequently contemptuous of them". It said the book "is marred by exaggerations, inconsistencies, and evidence of hostility to the subject" (''Washington Post'', 12/11/83). ''Left Turn'' magazine described Pipes as a "leading anti-Muslim hate propagandist". [http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=453&type=w]
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| − | In [[August 2003]], news leaked of Pipes' imminent appointment to the U.S. government-sponsored [[U.S. Institute of Peace]]. Soon afterwards, a broad array of Arab-American, American Muslim, and other groups vehemently denounced the appointment, claiming that Pipes was a racist, [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] extremist. Several [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[United States Senate|senators]], including [[Edward Kennedy|Ted Kennedy]] (D-[[Massachusetts]]) and [[Christopher Dodd]] (D-[[Connecticut]]), expressed opposition to the nomination and delayed a committee vote on it, though [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] bypassed the Senate and proceeded with a recess appointment.
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| − | This incident was the latest in the series of confrontations Pipes has had with various U.S-based Islamic groups, especially the [[Council on American-Islamic Relations]] (CAIR). CAIR maintains that Pipes is an anti-Islamic bigot, while Pipes in turn charges that CAIR is an apologist for Islamist terrorist groups like [[Hezbollah]] and [[Hamas]] (see external links).
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| − | Pipes is also controversial in academia, where his [[neoconservative]] positions—especially his strong support for [[Israel]] and his argument that [[Islamism]] is a threat to [[the West]]—conflicts with the views of some Middle East studies scholars, such as [[John Esposito]] who describes Islamist movements as political forces leading to democratic progress. Pipes was also criticized by [[Edward Said]], a critic of [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] scholarship.
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| − | ==Predictions==
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| − | === Radical Islam ===
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| − | Pipes has long expressed concern about the supposed danger of radical Islam to the Western world. In [[1985]], he wrote in ''Middle East Insight'' that "The scope of the radical fundamentalist's ambition poses novel problems; and the intensity of his onslaught against the United States makes solutions urgent." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/266]. 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." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/274] Four months before the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], Pipes and American investigative journalist [[Steven Emerson]] wrote in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' that [[al Qaeda]] was "planning new attacks on the U.S." and that Iranian operatives "helped arrange advanced ... training for al Qaeda personnel in [[Lebanon]] where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/381]
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| − | ===Arab-Israeli conflict===
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| − | 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 naïve 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." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/194]
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| − | ===The Dangers of Occupying Iraq===
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| − | 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'a]]s taking up [[suicide bombing]], [[Kurd]]s resuming their rebellion, and the [[Syria]]n and [[Iran]]ian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American rule. Staying in place would become too painful, leaving too humiliating." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/209]
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| − | ===Arafat's Intentions at Oslo===
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| − | Writing in the ''Forward'' within days of the signing of the [[Oslo Accords]], Pipes observed: "Mr. [[Yasser Arafat | 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." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/237]
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| − | ==Organizations==
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| − | Pipes founded the Middle East Forum [http:www.MEForum.org], an independent 501(c)3 organization, in 1994. Its stated 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Campus Watch was accused of "[[McCarthyism#McCarthyism_as_a_generic_concept|McCarthyesque]] intimidation" against professors expressing criticism of Israel, not only by the listed academics but by more than 100 others who demanded to be listed as well. Campus Watch subsequently removed the "McCarthyite blacklist" from their website. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/28/MN227890.DTL] [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/416] [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/209]
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| − | ==Publications==
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| − | *Books concerning Islam
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| − | **''Militant Islam Reaches America'' (2002), ISBN 0393052044
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| − | **''The Rushdie Affair'' (1990)
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| − | **''In the Path of God'' (1983), ISBN 0765809818
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| − | **''Slave Soldiers and Islam'' (1981)
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| − | *Books concerning Syria
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| − | **''Syria Beyond the Peace Process'' (1996)
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| − | **''Damascus Courts the West'' (1991)
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| − | **''Greater Syria'' (1990)
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| − | *Books concerning other topics
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| − | **''The Hidden Hand'' (1996)
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| − | **''The Long Shadow'' (1989)
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| − | **''Miniatures'' (2003)
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| − | **''An [[Arabist]]'s Guide to Colloquial Egyptian'' (1983) systematizes the grammar of Arabic as spoken in Egypt.
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| − | **''Conspiracy'' (1997) discusses conspiracy theories in modern European and American politics.
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| − | Pipes has also edited two collections of essays, ''Sandstorm'' (1993) and ''Friendly Tyrants'' (1991). He is the joint author of eleven books.
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://www.danielpipes.org Daniel Pipes’s personal website]
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| − | * [http://www.danielpipes.org/bios/ Biography]
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| − | * [http://www.danielpipes.org/books.php List of books]
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| − | * [http://meforum.org Middle East Forum]
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| − | * [http://www.campus-watch.org Campus Watch]
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| − | * [http://www.danielpipes.org/usip.php Controversy surrounding Pipes' appointment to the board of the US Institute of Peace]
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| − | * [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A60915-2003Aug14¬Found=true Protests against Pipes' appointment to the USIP]
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| − | * [[Harvard Magazine]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2300 Militant about "Islamism"]
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| − | :** [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60915-2003Aug14.html ''The Truth About Daniel Pipes''], :by columnist [[Charles Krauthammer]]
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| − | * [[Washington Post]]: [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/942 ''Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.'']
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| − | * [http://www.mpac.org/home_article_display.aspx?ITEM=491 ''The Truth About Daniel Pipes''], from the Muslim Public Affairs Council
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| − | * [[Los Angeles Times]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1205 “A Misdirected Attack”]
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| − | * [[Financial Times]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/996 ''Islam's battle with a hostile world'']
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| − | * [http://slate.msn.com/id/2086844 Pipes the Propagandist]
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| − | * [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1268 ''Truth on Terror''] in World Magazine
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| − | * [http://www.cair-net.org/misc/people/daniel_pipes.html ''WHO IS DANIEL PIPES?''] by [[Council on American-Islamic Relations|CAIR]]
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| − | * [http://www.danielpipes.org/cair.php ''Reply to CAIR's Attack on Daniel Pipes''] Pipes' response
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| − | * [[World Magazine]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1268 ''Truth on Terror'']
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| − | '''NOTE:''' Portions of this article are taken from a [[w:Daniel Pipes|corresponding article]] on Wikipedia.
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| − | [[Category:Historians|Pipes, Daniel]]
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