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March 14, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Trevor Logan FDD Policy Brief

Turkey Abused Western Dual-Use Technology to Inject Spyware

Turkey’s leading internet service provider, Turk Telekom, in which the Turkish government...

November 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia

Expect Political Turmoil in the Year Ahead

“Trump, Brexit, Migration: Is the world on fire?” This was the topical question explored by five panellists last month at a Toronto event sponsored by three organizations: th...

October 14, 2015 | Sheryl Saperia |

Sanctions Targeting Iranian Human Rights Abusers are Right, Not Radical

On September 23rd, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservatives, if re-elected, would amend the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) to include gross human r...

January 27, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

FDD Executive Director Tells Congress Deadline-Triggered Sanctions Strengthen Negotiating Leverage

WASHINGTON – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Congress Tuesday that deadline-triggered sanctions against Iran would strengthen U.S. negot...

January 22, 2015 | FDD Press Release |

FDD Executive Director to Testify Before Congress Tuesday on the Critical Demand for Iran Sanctions

Hearing rescheduled from January 20

January 16, 2015 | FDD Press Release |

FDD Executive Director to Testify Before Congress Tuesday on Iran Sanctions

WASHINGTON – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs...

November 20, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz |

FDD Executive Director Calls on Congress to ‘Defend the Sanctions Architecture’ As Deadline Nears

WASHINGTON – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, called on Congress Thursday to “defend the sanctions architecture it was so instrumental i...

November 18, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz |

FDD Executive Director to Testify Before Congress Thursday on Iran Nuclear Deal and its Implications

WASHINGTON – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday afternoon on &...

October 21, 2014 |

FDD Welcomes Oren Kessler as New Deputy Director of Research

Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed Oren Kessler this week as its newest Deputy Di...

June 22, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post

Assessing the State of Islamophobia in Canada

As noted previously on this blog, last Satu...

June 20, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post

The Long, Hard, Surreal Struggle for Women’s Rights in Pakistan

On Saturday night, I appeared as a panelist at the “Message of Peace: Countering Islamophobia&rd...

November 3, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes New Director for Canada

PRESS RELEASE CONTACT...

January 13, 2011 | Scripps Howard News Service

The War Against the Christians

Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting...

October 24, 2005 | Mark Dubowitz World Defense Review |

The Enduring Consequences of the First World War

If the First World War was to be the "war to end all wars," the Paris Peace Conference established a "peace to end all peace." In both the scale of its devastation and in its political consequenc...