Daniel Pipes :: Writings

World War I saw the emergence of the soldier's camera; the American side of the Vietnam conflict marked the first televised war; the Kuwait War inaugurated the first live-television war; and the civil conflict in Syria, 2011–24 can lay claim to being

Drayson of Cambridge University asserts that "conventional histories" of Christian-Muslim relations "tend to chart the legacy of a centuries-long mutual antagonism and violent conflict between the Muslims and Christians of Europe."

The five years under review, covering my ages 70-75, have been good ones.

Each of the three central actors in the current conflict made a central mistake about its enemy.

Ignore the overblown title and the publisher's rush to get this book out quickly following Syria's December 2024 revolution; its charm and power lie in the evocation of nearly 55 years of life under the Assads, father and son, 1970-2024.

For over 75 years, the State of Israel has taken pride in protecting worldwide Jewry as well as its own citizens.

To the Editor: David Mamet's op-ed "Sorry, Billionaires—There's No Escape" (Aug. 7) establishes that, come the apocalypse, no amount of money will help the ultrarich reach safety because their aides will revolt and take over.

How to understand the fighting in Syria between the central government in Damascus and its many foes, including Alawites, Kurds, Druze, and the Israel Defense Forces?

My article "'Are you Alawite?'

For those who follow international politics, the days following Israel's June 13 attack on Iran meant an addictive check of the smartphone every few hours to learn the latest twist.

No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, 2025, but Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma estimates more than three thousand.

I published an article on April 4, "Gazans, 'The Bravest People on Earth,' Confront Hamas" about the activities that peaked in late March.

Bashir signals his outlook in the first paragraph: "Let us for a moment imagine a world in which Muslim seminaries are training scholars to actively challenge 'modern slavery' across the globe."

Recalling Muhammad's apocryphal last words about Muslims needing to take care of their slaves, Freamon, a Black American Muslim and professor emeritus at Seton Hall Law School, argues that they "have not lived up to this admonition" either in law or in

As a lifelong Democrat, I was offended by Daniel Pipes's self-serving history of American politics, "Angry conservatives, explained" (Opinion, March 1).