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Title Publication Date
Muslims Honor Birthday of Muhammad – Except in His Birthplace Folksmagazine [India] February 3, 2012
Bosnia Re-Arrests Top Wahhabi Plotter After U.S. Embassy Attacked The Weekly Standard Blog February 1, 2012
Bosnian Cultural Heritage Under Peacetime Threat The Huffington Post January 19, 2012
Turkey Leaps Toward Islamist Dictatorship Folksmagazine [India] January 15, 2012
Kazakhstan: Global Tumult Enters Critical Central Asia Folksmagazine [India] December 26, 2011
Bosnian Muslim Academics Condemn Wahhabism After Attack on U.S. Embassy The Weekly Standard Blog December 7, 2011
Denounce Vandalism of Jewish Cemetery in Kosova CIP December 4, 2011
The influence of Ottoman rule on Albanian political sociology [.pdf] Illyria [New York] November 29, 2011
The influence of Ottoman rule on Albanian political sociology Illyria [New York] November 28, 2011
Looking toward the 2012 Centennial Illyria [New York] November 28, 2011
Al Jazeera Enters the Balkans The Weekly Standard Blog November 15, 2011
Wahhabism: A Forgotten Legacy of the Bosnian War National Review Online: The Corner November 7, 2011
An Eid Al-Adha Manifesto Folksmagazine [India] November 7, 2011
Speaker analyzes 'Islamophobia' The Crusader [Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania, USA] November 4, 2011
Islamist Terrorism in Bosnia as Turkish Interference Continues in the Balkans The Weekly Standard Blog November 3, 2011
The Face of Dignity Reforma [México] October 23, 2011
Erdoğan's Meddling in the Balkans The Weekly Standard Blog October 11, 2011
Islamic Sufism and Jewish Kabbalah The Huffington Post October 5, 2011
Moderate Clerics Purged from Kosovo Muslim Leadership The Weekly Standard Blog October 5, 2011
John L. Esposito: Apologist for Wahhabi Islam American Thinker September 18, 2011
9.11: Ten Years Later Folksmagazine [India] September 11, 2011
Kosovo Bans Islamic Headscarf and Religious Instruction in Public Schools The Weekly Standard Blog September 7, 2011
More Islamist Mischief Aimed at Albanian Muslims The Weekly Standard Blog August 17, 2011
The Family Cseresnyés/Čerešnješ American Communist History [New York] August 2011
Israel Orders Extradition of Accused Bosnian Serb War Criminal The Weekly Standard Blog August 3, 2011
Reflections on Ramadan in Troubled Times, 1432 A.H. Islam Sight [Malappuram, Kerala, India] August 1, 2011
Norwegian Demons and the Serbian Connection Folksmagazine [India] August 1, 2011
Kosovar Albanians Confront Wahhabi Agitators The Weekly Standard Blog July 26, 2011
Wahhabism, Terrorism, Islam Islam Sight [Malappuram, Kerala, India] July 25, 2011
How Many Sufis Are There in Islam? The Huffington Post July 20, 2011
Jorge Semprún (1923-2011) The New Republic Online July 9, 2011
Arab Spring Gives Way to Summer of Protest in Balkans The Weekly Standard Blog July 6, 2011
A matter of spite Koha Ditore [Prishtina, Kosova] July 2, 2011
Mufti Fuad Express [Prishtina, Kosova] July 2, 2011
Schwartz: Fuad Ramiqi has ties to Hamas Koha Ditore [Prishtina, Kosova] July 1, 2011
History, Tragedy and Farce NewsGram [India] June 30, 2011
Kosovo Islam in Crisis The Huffington Post June 22, 2011
CIP Executive Director Schwartz and Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes [.pdf] Illyria [New York] June 19, 2011
Defending Bosnia-Hercegovina From Radical Islam NewsGram [India] June 18, 2011
Notes on Sufism as a Social Movement Illyria [New York] May 31-June 13, 2011
Of Butchers and Boycotts The Huffington Post/NewsGram [India] May 28, 2011
Is America a Nation of Book Burners? The Huffington Post April 13, 2011
The Widening War Against Sufism NewsGram [India] April 9, 2011
Kryegjysh Boterorë Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi, 1935-2011 [as .pdf with photograph] Illyria [New York] April 5, 2011
Kryegjysh Boterorë Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi, 1935-2011 Illyria [New York] April 5, 2011
Sufis, Islam, and Democracy NewsGram [India] April 1, 2011
The Last Jewish Sufi Mjesto i Uloga Derviških Redova u Bosni i Hercegovini, Zbornik radova povodom obilježavanja 800 godina od rođenja Džemaluddina Rumija – Oriental Institute of Sarajevo and The Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, 2011 2011 Collection of Papers
The Libyan Standard of Resistance The Weekly Standard Blog March 30, 2011
The Canadian Front Against Radical Islam NewsGram [India] March 26, 2011
Greetings on Sulltan Nevruz [.pdf] Illyria [New York] March 25, 2011
Meditations on Sultan Nevruz Illyria [New York] March 25, 2011
From Pakistan to Germany NewsGram [India] March 5, 2011
A Muslim woman who sacrificed herself, also, for the Jewish cause NewsGram [India] January 21, 2011
Fatiha for Rahmetli Hafiz Halid Hadžimulić CIP January 10, 2011
Albania Jails Radical Imam, Welcomes New Synagogue The Weekly Standard Blog December 21, 2010
Richard C. Holbrooke's Problematic Legacy Hudson Institute New York December 15, 2010
From Sweden to Macedonia The Weekly Standard Blog December 14, 2010
Angelina in Wonderland The Weekly Standard Blog December 6, 2010
The Heritage of Ottoman Islam in the Balkans Illyria [New York] November 2010
Islam in Europe Destroyed by Radicalism? The Weekly Standard Blog October 11, 2010
Two Misconceptions About the "Ground Zero Mosque" Illyria [New York] September 9, 2010
A Bosnian Commentator on the Fusus al-Hikam Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society 2010 Annual
Internal Paradoxes of Muslim Extremism Patheos.com August 16, 2010
Jihadists v. Sufis The Weekly Standard Blog August 9, 2010
Grim anniversary marks UN's failings Toronto Sun July 17, 2010
Kosovo Headscarf Conflict Grows The Weekly Standard Blog July 6, 2010
Reuters: Same Dog, Same Tricks The Weekly Standard Blog June 10, 2010
Under the Volcano The Weekly Standard Blog April 21, 2010
Anti-Wahhabi Movement Spreading in Kosovo The Weekly Standard Blog March 10, 2010
Serbian Icons Tarnished The Weekly Standard Blog March 3, 2010
On the 800th Birthday of Haxhi Bektash Veli Illyria [New York] March 2, 2010
Bosnia Cracks Down on Wahhabism The Weekly Standard Blog February 18, 2010
Kosovo Sees Continuing Infiltration by Islamists The Weekly Standard Blog February 2, 2010
Bektashi Sufis in the Albanian National Renaissance Illyria [New York] November 28, 2009
Bartók, Parry & Lord: a flawed legacy The New Criterion November 2009
Ambassador Heads Panel On Extremism in the Balkans The Hoya [Georgetown University] October 30, 2009
The Harabati Teqe in Tetova Under Wahhabi Attack CIP October 2009
What Happened At Medjugorje? First Things Online September 8, 2009
Kosovo's Burning The Daily Standard September 1, 2009
Jihad from North Carolina to Kosovo The Daily Standard August 19, 2009
"Intellectual Restitution": Illyria [New York] August 14, 2009
Wahhabism in the Balkans The Daily Standard March 4, 2009
Ashura in America The Daily Standard January 18, 2009
Excerpts from Interview with Prof. Dr. Rešid Hafizović Oslobođenje [Sarajevo] November 22, 2008
Call Me Ismail ReadySteadyBook [Guernsey, Channel Islands] September 26, 2008
Epic Song, Comparative Analysis, and Balkan Sephardic Culture Gegnia.com [Shkodra, Albania] July 5, 2008
The Free Speech of Stephen Schwartz Gegnia.com [Shkodra, Albania] July 2, 2008
A Dark Corner of Europe, Part II Totten's Middle East Journal June 10, 2008
Rahmetli Muhamed Neziroviċ (1934-2008) CIP June 4, 2008
Rahmetli Imam Vehbi Ismail (1919-2008) CIP May 19, 2008
Manastiri: City Of Ghosts Illyria [New York] January 29, 2008
The Arab Hijacking of Bosnian Muslims Family Security Matters May 30, 2007
Six Questions for Mustafa Cerić Family Security Matters May 21, 2007
"Judeocentrism" - A New Slur? Family Security Matters May 16, 2007
The Balkan Front The Weekly Standard May 14, 2007
People On Our Side: Baba Edmond Brahimaj, A Balkan Sufi Family Security Matters April 25, 2007
The U.N.'s Kosovo Exit Strategy The Daily Standard April 4, 2007
"They are wolf-dogs, they will attack our children" – Bosnian Villagers in Clash With Wahhabis Bosnia-Hercegovina TV1 March 4, 2007
The State of Soul of the Bosnian Intellectuals Oslobođenje [Sarajevo] December 16, 2006
On the Criticisms by Rešid Hafizović Rijaset November 26, 2006
They Are Coming for Our Children Oslobođenje [Sarajevo] November 25, 2006
Moderate Balkan Islam: The Two-Edged Sword Family Security Matters November 21, 2006
Readers May Choose A Title For This Text Oslobođenje [Sarajevo] November 18, 2006
The Fatwa of 38 Tech Central Station November 6, 2006
The Economist and Euro-Islam The Daily Standard October 17, 2006
Exchange on Christians in the Albanian Lands First Things [New York] August/September 2006
Free at Last The Weekly Standard July 24, 2006
A Balkan Whisperer in Darkness Family Security Matters July 19, 2006
Euro-Islam: The Dynamics of Effective Integration Woodrow Wilson International Center [Washington, DC] June 21, 2006
Conscience Before Deadlines TCS Daily May 8, 2006
An interesting note by Stephen Schwartz... First Things Online April 3, 2006
Death of a Dictator The Weekly Standard March 27, 2006
The future of Islam may be resolved in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina Novi List [Croatia] February 24, 2006
Life in the Balkans is Not a Comic Book TCS Daily November 23, 2005
Dayton's Decade The Daily Standard November 21, 2005
The Failure of Europe in Bosnia The Weekly Standard June 20, 2005
Wahhabism: The Syphilis of Islam Frontpagemag May 2, 2005
The Jews, the Serbs, and the Truth Frontpagemag March 21, 2005
Getting to Know the Sufis The Weekly Standard February 7, 2005
Multimedia Invitation To Jihad Dani [Sarajevo] January 14, 2005
Justice Out of Balance The Daily Standard January 4, 2005
Wahhabism and al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor October 20, 2004
The Worst of Cat Stevens The Daily Standard September 24, 2004
Is Cat Stevens a Terrorist? The Daily Standard September 22, 2004
Repudiation of Ustasha Past in Croatia The Jerusalem Post September 10, 2004
Security and Cooperation? The Daily Standard September 8, 2004
A Leonardo, Not a Luther Tech Central Station June 1, 2004
The U.N. Brings Trouble to Kosovo The Weekly Standard May 3, 2004
A Massacre in Kosovo The Daily Standard April 29, 2004
A Northern Strategy Tech Central Station January 20, 2004
The Open Society Institute and Its Enemies Tech Central Station January 12, 2004
Wahhabis at the Gate The Weekly Standard December 15, 2003
Jihad: The True Belief OpenDemocracy October 13, 2003
A Bad Move in Baghdad The Daily Standard August 20, 2003
Edited Replies to Queries from U.S. Senators on Wahhabism U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee June 27, 2003
U.N. Go Home The Weekly Standard April 14, 2003
The Real Islam The Atlantic Unbound [Transcript] March 20, 2003
America Defends Muslims National Review Online February 12, 2003
The Two Faces of Islam C-SPAN Book Notes [Transcript] February 2, 2003
A Crime in Bosnia The Daily Standard January 16, 2003
Which Islam? The Boston Globe December 15, 2002
Democracy and Islam After September 11 The Daily Standard December 13, 2002
The Good and the Bad National Review Online [Transcript] November 18, 2002
A Contribution To the Study Of the Dhimma Remarks Delivered at Haverford College, Pa. November 10, 2002
How Not to Nation-Build The Weekly Standard October 21, 2002
Albanian Muslims: Islamist Target Frontpagemag October 11, 2002
Our Allies in the Balkans The Weekly Standard June 17, 2002
Behind Hollywood's Lines The Weekly Standard December 24, 2001
Saudi Friends, Saudi Foes The Weekly Standard October 8, 2001
The Graveyard of NATO? New York Post September 10, 2001
The Great Balkan Botch-Up The Wall Street Journal Europe February 15, 2001
Islamic Fundamentalism in the Balkans Partisan Review [Cambridge, MA] Summer 2000
Kosovo on Hold The Nation [New York] April 17, 2000
Media in the Promotion of Democracy in Bosnia-Hercegovina U.S. Agency for International Development Contract Study [Sarajevo] March 23, 2000
Croatia's Turn The Weekly Standard February 21, 2000
Mitrovica's Bridge Too Far The Wall Street Journal Europe February 16, 2000
A Gangster Dies in Gangland The Wall Street Journal Europe January 17, 2000
A Blood Brotherhood San Francisco Faith September 1998
The Case of the Sarajevo Eight Northern California Newspaper Guild Memorandum/ONASA News Agency [Sarajevo] February 25, 1998
Media and the September 1997 Elections in Bosnia-Hercegovina International Federation of Journalists [Brussels] December 15, 1997
Rape As A Weapon of War in the Former Yugoslavia Hastings Women's Law Journal [Berkeley, CA]/Hrvatski i Bošnjaćki Tjednik [Zagreb] October 27, 1994
In Defense of the Bosnian Republic World Affairs [Washington, DC] Fall 1993
Yugoslav Strife Felt in Bay Area San Francisco Chronicle February 3, 1990

Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Encounters With Civilizations
by Gëzim Alpion
Folksmagazine [India] January 9, 2012
Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality
by Edited by Ron Geaves, Markus Dressler, and Gritt Klinkhammer.
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2011
My New American Life
by Francine Prose
The New Criterion October 2011
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
Illyria [New York] December 14, 2010
The Country Where No One Ever Dies
by Ornela Vorpsi
The Weekly Standard May 31, 2010
A Short Border Handbook
by Gazmend Kapllani
The Weekly Standard May 31, 2010
The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam, and the Albanians, 1874-1913
by George Gawrych
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II
by Norman H. Gershman
The Weekly Standard June 1, 2009
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
Reforma [México] September 7, 2008
Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook
by Stephen Schwartz
Balkan Academic News December 10, 2005
Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook
by Stephen Schwartz
Islamic Studies [Pakistan] December 2005
Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook
by Stephen Schwartz
Transitions Online and The Economist July 7, 2005
Bosnian Laureate
by Nikola Šop, Tr. by W.H. Auden
The Weekly Standard April 18, 2005
Milošević: A Biography
by Adam LeBor
The New York Sun April 28, 2004
Death and the Dervish, The Fortress
by Meša Selimović
National Review Online June 17, 2000
Sarajevo Blues
by Semezdin Mehmedinović; Tr. by Ammiel Alcalay
San Francisco Chronicle January 10, 1999
Kosovo: A Short History
by Noel Malcolm
The Wall Street Journal May 5, 1998

Announcements

Title Publication Date
Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan Announcement May 1, 2011
CIP Executive Director Schwartz in Toronto, Canada Announcement March 16, 2011
Greetings for Milad-an-Nabi, AH 1432 Announcement March 1, 2011
New Book – 'My Visit to the Holy Land' Announcement February 4, 2011
Eid al-Adha, A.H. 1431 Announcement November 13, 2010
Remembering Srebrenica Announcement July 12, 2010
Death of CIP Associate Shpëtim Mahmudi Announcement June 3, 2010
Hatemonger Al-Marayati Denounces CIP Announcement August 28, 2008
Urgent Call for Protest Against Wahhabi Aggression in Macedonia Announcement March 11, 2008
Macedonian Sufis Endorse Executive Director Schwartz's Weekly Standard Article Announcement May 20, 2007
Death of Baba Tahir Emini in Macedonia Announcement February 17, 2006

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