Raymond Ibrahim

• Name — Raymond Ibrahim • Website — raymondibrahim.com • Born — 1973 • Birthplace — U.S. • Occupation — Writer, author, translator, columnist • Education — California State University, Fresno (BA, MA)

Ibrahim was born in the United States to Coptic immigrants from Egypt, and is fluent in Arabic and English. Ibrahim studied at California State University, Fresno, where he obtained a BA and an MA degree, both in History. He wrote his master's thesis under Victor Davis Hanson on the Battle of the Yarmuk. Ibrahim also took graduate courses at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and studied toward a PhD in medieval Islamic history at Catholic University.

Ibrahim was previously an Arabic language specialist for the Near East section at the Library of Congress, and the associate director of the Middle East Forum. As of 2023, he is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, which multiple watchdogs describe as an anti-Muslim outlet that promotes conspiracy theories, and the Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, a conservative anti-Islamist think tank. He has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement. Ibrahim is the editor and translator of The Al Qaeda Reader, which he published after discovering a hitherto unknown Arabic al-Qaeda document; Ibrahim believes the document "proves once and for all that, despite the propaganda of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers, radical Islam's war with the West is not finite and limited to political grievances — real or imagined — but is existential, transcending time and space and deeply rooted in faith".