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Scholar Fouad Ajami has garnered more prime-time airplay than any other commentator on Arab-Muslim issues. But critics say he's far from a representative voice.
Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese-born scholar, author and commentator who helped shape American discourse on Middle Eastern affairs with lyrical portraits of the troubled region that illuminated Arab ...
Fouad Ajami spent his whole life, it would seem, shaking off “the curse of Arnoun,” his hardscrabble native village—joyless and inbred—in southern Lebanon.
Writing at his New Yorker blog, Interesting Times, George Packer takes note of an apparent shift in Fouad Ajami’s thinking about the war in Iraq. An early champion of the case for intervention ...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Fouad Ajami, a former CBS News analyst and Middle East scholar who rallied support for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and advised policy makers in the Bush ...
Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University, comes from a Shi’a family in Lebanon. Professor Ajami is the author of numerous books on the Middle East ...
Hoover Institution Research Fellow Sam Tadros on how Fouad Ajami’s posthumously published book, “In This Arab Time,” foresaw President Obama’s failures in the Middle East. Photo credit ...
Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, recently visited Baghdad. He shares his observations of the current ...
Why were the words of Fouad Ajami “never welcomed in the cultural salons of Beirut and Cairo?” asks Samuel Tadros in Tablet magazine. And why are they now “unfashionable … in the halls of ...
Fouad Ajami, influential scholar of the Middle East, dies at 68 June 23, 2014 More than 10 years ago Fouad Ajami, left, met in 2007 with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad’s Green Zone.