
What America Never Understood About ISIS
The Islamic State indulged in some of the most ostentatious brutality and sadism of recent decades. If any extremist group deserves the adjective evil, this would be it. But it …

The Islamic State indulged in some of the most ostentatious brutality and sadism of recent decades. If any extremist group deserves the adjective evil, this would be it. But it …

By Thomas W. Lippman

by Seyed Hossein Mousavian

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Former President of The American University
in Cairo

Scholar of Religions
Contributing Editor for The Daily Beast

Journalist
Fellow at The Century Foundation

U.S. Army Veteran
Co-Founder of International Youth Council

Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations

Operations Chief for the Middle East and North Africa
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in NY

Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security
at NYU School of Law

Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Contributing Editor to The Atlantic

Assistant Professor of International Relations
and European Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Journalist and Philanthropist

Former Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations

TÜSİAD Senior Fellow and Director of the Center
on The United States and Europe’s Turkey Project at Brookings

Author and Journalist
Specialized in Saudi Arabian Affairs

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Executive Vice President for Global Centers
and Global Development at Columbia University

Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist
at Princeton University

Professor of Government
at the American University of Afghanistan

Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer
and Former H. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for the Middle East

Professor of Law
at Al Quds University in Jerusalem

Founder and President
of the National Iranian American Council

Senior Advisor and Past President
of the Syrian American Medical Society

Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar
at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute

Journalist
Freelance Society

Researcher and Professor

By Mohammad Javad Zarif

By Lisel Hintz and Blaise Misztal

by Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and William McCants

By Bernard Haykel