Professorial Pundits Place Iraq Bets
The war is underway, and most of the rationales for and against it are based on predictions. No one reasonably expects professors of Middle Eastern studies to predict military outcomes. But political...
View ArticleCole cult ignores Ajami
While on the road, I was amazed to read this quote in The Nation, served up by Joshua Landis after Yale’s thumbs-down to Juan Cole: “Juan Cole has done something that no other Middle East academic has...
View ArticleArabs Against Themselves
Martin Kramer, “Arabs Against Themselves,” Commentary, July 1982, pp. 86-88. The article is a review of Fouad Ajami, The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967, published by...
View ArticleFouad Ajami’s discovery of Israel
This article first appeared at Mosaic Magazine on January 8, 2015, under the title “Fouad Ajami Goes to Israel.” “In a curious way, my exposure to Israel was essential to my coming to terms with Arab...
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