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Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a think tank that specializes in the Middle East. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Terrorist Network (2011).

Troops of the Israeli Air Force's elite Shaldag unit on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

Waiting for the Middle Eastern storm to settle

Ideologies do not suddenly disappear, and the region is ripe with volatility.

Sarah N. Stern

Jan. 3, 2025

Anti-government fighters brandish their guns as they ride a vehicle in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Nov. 30, 2024. Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images.

On the Syrian spiral of complexity

In the Mideast, things are not neatly carved out into blocks of good and evil, black and white.

Sarah N. Stern

Dec. 4, 2024

IDF paratroopers take part in a brigade drill at training area in the northern Golan Heights, on Jan. 12, 2022. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

The tides are turning

In an existential war, Israel is regaining its military deterrence.

Sarah N. Stern

Oct. 1, 2024

Samantha Power, the USAID administrator, at a World Food Program warehouse in Amman, Jordan, being used to prepare aid for shipment to Gaza on Feb. 26, 2024. Credit: USAID.

America must find its Mideast moxie once again

Washington hands over taxpayer dollars to the region, only to be repaid in terrorism. Something’s gotta give.

Sarah N. Stern

Sept. 11, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with then-Vice President Joe Biden at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Jan. 21, 2016. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Peace through strength

Israel is doing the dirty work of fighting evil for us all.

Sarah N. Stern

Aug. 5, 2024

Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, addresses the Security Council Arria-Formula meeting on ensuring accountability for atrocities committed in Ukraine, April 27, 2022. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

A judgment that erodes trust in the US

To attack Israel, a Biden administration official undermines the credibility of the United States and fails to protect its soldiers.

Sarah N. Stern

June 25, 2024

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, center, is flanked by Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhala (left) and Hamas deputy politburo head Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 2, 2023. Source: Twitter/X.

Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon

The Iran-backed terrorist group is dragging Israel into a war Lebanon does not want.

Sarah N. Stern

June 16, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit: White House.

Deconstructing Biden’s speech

There is no guarantee of Israel’s security except Israel.

Sarah N. Stern

June 3, 2024

Anti-Israel protesters on the Foggy Bottom campus of George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C., on April 26, 2024. Photo by Andrew Bernard.

Putting a stop to campus hate

We must quench the inferno by passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

Sarah N. Stern

May 6, 2024