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Fouad Ajami
Fouad Ajami is The Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of Middle East Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC, a position he has held since 1980. Prior to this appointment, he was a member of the faculty of the department of politics at Princeton University. A naturalized US citizen of Lebanese birth, he is the author of The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey, The Arab Predicament, Beirut: The City of Regrets, The Vanished Imam and other works. His essays have appeared in prominent publications in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Professor Ajami is the recipient of several awards most notably the five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship, an award granted to individuals of "Exceptional Talent" in the Arts and Sciences. He has been a Research Fellow of The Lehrman Institute in New York City. He has been, since 1989, a contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report, for which he has written frequently on matters of American foreign policy, Middle East politics and modern history. He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine, Foreign Affairs, and a contributing editor of The New Republic.
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