Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul A. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., a position he has held since 1980. He has been teaching and writing on the modern Middle East and Arab political thought and culture for over three decades and is considered to be one of the most politically influential Arab-American intellectuals of his generation. Prior to his appointment at SAIS, he was a member of the faculty of the department of politics at Princeton University and a fellow of the Center of International Studies. He has been a contributing editor and columnist for the magazine, U.S. News and World Report for nearly two decades. A naturalized U.S. citizen of Lebanese birth, he is the author most recently of The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq. Other titles include The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey; The Arab Predicament; Beirut: City of Regrets; and The Vanished Imam: Musa al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon.