 Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for both the New York Post and The Jerusalem Post. Mr. Pipes was one of the few analysts who understood the threat of militant Islam ("Unnoticed by most Westerners," he wrote in 1995, "war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States "). The Wall Street Journal has called him "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East," while MSNBC describes him as one of the best-known " Mideast policy luminaries." Mr. Pipes frequently discusses current issues on television, appearing on such programs as ABC World News, CBS Reports, Crossfire, Good Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor, and the Today Show. He has lectured in twenty-five countries. Mr. 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 seventy dailies, plus hundreds of websites. His writings have been translated into seventeen languages. Mr. Pipes has written eleven books. Four deal with Islam, including his newest one, Militant Islam Reaches America (to be published by W.W. Norton in September 2002). Prior books on Islam were The Rushdie Affair (1990), In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power (1983; reprinted 2002), and Slave Soldiers and Islam (1981). Mr. Pipes has edited two collections of essays, Sandstorm: Middle East Conflicts and America (1993) and Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma (1991). He is the joint author of eleven books. Mr. Pipes serves on the "Special Task Force on Terrorism Technology" at the Department of Defense. He sits on three editorial boards, has testified before many congressional committees, and worked on four presidential campaigns. He is or has been listed in Who's Who in Entertainment, Who's Who in America , and Who's Who in the World.
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