Daniel Pipes is president and founder of the Middle East Forum and a historian. A columnist for The Washington Times, his special interests include the public role of Islam, Turkey, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the liberal-conservative divide. He recently finished a book titled "Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated." Mr. Pipes has taught Middle Eastern and world history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, and served on the Policy Planning Council under President Reagan.

Gregg Roman functions as the chief operations officer for the Middle East

Forum, responsible for day-to-day management, communications, and

financial resource development. Mr. Roman previously served as director

of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. In 2014, he was named one of the ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He previously served as the political advisor to the deputy foreign minister of Israel and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He attended American University in Washington, D.C., and the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he studied national security studies and political communications.

Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC and director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum. For the past decade, he has also worked as a contract Persian language analyst for the U.S. Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rubin received a B.S. degree in biology from Yale University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in history from the same institution in 1999. He contributed affidavits to or served as an expert witness in court cases involving Hezbollah money laundering, Iranian terrorism, and internal Iraqi security. He is the author of six books, several dozen book chapters, and is the author of more than two thousand opinion essays and articles in U.S. newspapers.

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