Fouad Ajami
Majid Khadduri Professor; Director of the Middle East Studies Program

Areas of Expertise:
Middle East; Persian Gulf; Iran; Iraq; OPEC; international relations; Islamic religion, culture and law

Background and Education:
Former faculty member of Princeton University’s Department of Politics and fellow at Princeton’s Center of International Studies; former research fellow at The Lehrman Institute; recipient of the five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship in the arts and sciences in 1982; contributing editor to U.S. News & World Report and member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs; consultant to CBS News; fluent in Arabic; Ph.D., political science, University of Washington

Publications:
The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Gener-ation’s Odyssey (1998); Beirut: City of Regrets (1988); The Vanished Imam: Musa Al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon (1986); The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967 (1981; revised edition in 1992); frequent contributor on Middle Eastern issues and contemporary international history to The New York Times Book Review, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic and other journals and periodicals