Who Is Danny Burmawi?

Aug 13, 2026

Some online commentary has questioned my background, education, and years of work in the Middle East, noting the limited public information about me before 2023.

There is a simple reason for that limited footprint.

Before coming to the United States, I spent many years living and working in the Middle East. I was involved in Christian ministry and eventually served as a regional director for an international Christian organization, with responsibilities across the region. Because of the nature of that work and the environment in which we operated, maintaining a low public profile was a matter of security.

Here is an interview from when I was living in Lebanon. You can clearly see that I asked them to blur my face because I had to maintain a low profile for security reasons.

In 2008, after my conversion, I moved from Jordan to Lebanon seeking refuge. I eventually found myself at a Catholic monastery in southern Lebanon, in Saida, called Deir Al Mokhalles, where I lived for a while.

After that, I moved to Beirut to study at Mediterranean Bible College, where I enrolled in a bachelor’s program from 2009 to 2013. I later transferred my credits to an accredited institution, South African Theological Seminary, where I earned my bachelor’s degree in 2015.

The commentary also questioned whether I actually have a master’s degree in theological studies from an American university. So, before moving forward, here is a redacted copy of my Master of Theological Studies transcript. I have, of course, redacted identifying and sensitive information for security reasons.

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Between 2011 and 2015, I worked with a local Christian ministry called Perfect Home Lebanon. In 2015, I became a regional director with Every Home for Christ International, initially leading the ministry in Jordan and later overseeing its work across eight countries in the Middle East. During this time, I also founded 500Plus Publications, which later merged with the ministry I founded in 2019.

In 2019, I founded New Nation Ministries, where I led a team of 50 people through the Beirut explosion and the COVID-19 pandemic, serving thousands of families every month.

Here is an interview I gave to an American minister about the work our ministry was doing in Lebanon following the Beirut explosion in 2020.

My team in Lebanon 2021

My Team in Jordan 2017

Celebrating four years of New Nation Ministry 2023

As a Jordanian, and in Jordan children are registered under their father’s religion, and people who leave Islam cannot simply change their official religious designation. I therefore in 2022 traveled to Canada to ensure that my son would not be officially registered as a Muslim. I had access to the United States, but I respected U.S. laws and restrictions concerning birth tourism.

We returned to Lebanon after the birth of my son because I did not want to leave the Middle East. However, two serious security threats arose. The first occurred in Jordan, when Jordanian intelligence tried to recruit me to spy on Hezbollah and I refused—a long story that I will tell another time. The second arose in Lebanon, when people connected to the ministry, because of personal conflicts, decided to tell Hezbollah that I was a Jordanian spy.

At that point, the security of my family became my priority, and I decided to move to the United States.

I arrived in the United States just three months before October 7. At the time, my plan was to finish my master’s degree and work in Christian ministry, reaching Arabs with the Gospel both in the United States and online throughout the Arab world.

However, after October 7, something happened, a change I describe in detail in my book. I began speaking publicly much more frequently, initially through videos in Arabic on TikTok. Toward the end of 2025, I expanded that work to X and founded the Ideological Defense Institute. That was when a much larger English-speaking audience began encountering my work.

My page on Tiktok

Since then, anyone can find extensive information about what I have been doing in the United States simply by Googling my name.

So there is no Israeli operation. There are no lies. There is nothing hidden. I am a very simple guy with a mission: to defend Western civilization from suffering the same fate as the civilization of my ancestors. I believe that if the West gets the war against Israel wrong, it will make itself vulnerable to the same forces that have erased other civilizations before it.

That is why you should support IDI and the more than 20 people, many of whom share stories similar to mine, who have joined me in what we believe is a moral obligation: defending Western civilization.