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Hi, everybody. This is Gatsad inaugural guest for 2026. So that's a a big honor make sure to put that on your

CV we've got gregg roman executive director of the middle east forum how you doing gregg

i'm great thanks for having me today and happy new year happy new year to you as well uh okay well let's

start with the middle east forum tell us us about it. But before you do,

I actually, I think I met once, no, I'm sure I met once, Daniel Pipes, who is the founder of

the Middle East Forum. I think he found it in 1994. He had come to Montreal to speak at some event,

and I spoke to him very very briefly and I think

I might have mentioned the fact that coming up with a distinction between Islam and Islamism and

radical Islam was not a good idea so maybe we could talk about that later but tell us about

the Middle East forum sure Daniel pipes is the the OG of fighting Islamism, and he's the guy who's been involved

with this since 1972 when he got his doctorate from Harvard University. The thing

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