The Arab Spring at One
Throughout 2011, a rhythmic chant echoed across the Arab lands: "The people want to topple the regime."
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Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the co-chair of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. From 1980 to 2011 he was director of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Arab Predicament, Beirut: City of Regrets, The Dream Palace of the Arabs, and The Foreigner's Gift. His writings also include some four hundred essays on Arab and Islamic politics, US foreign policy, and contemporary international history. In 1982, he was granted the five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship, and in 2006 received the Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement. In November 2006 Mr. Ajami was awarded the National Humanities Medal. He is a member of the board of advisers of Foreign Affairs.
Throughout 2011, a rhythmic chant echoed across the Arab lands: "The people want to topple the regime."
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Itamar Rabinovich's commanding new book makes clear that change in Syria will not come quickly or easily -- and, if the past is any indication, it may not come at all.
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Fouad Ajami, adjunct research fellow at the Hoover Institution, compares the overarching foreign policy philosophies of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and contrasts the 2008 race with presidential campaign of 1960.
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Listen to Fouad Ajami discuss his book The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq as part of the Council's Iraq: The Way Forward Series.
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Watch Fouad Ajami discuss his book The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq as part of the Council's Iraq: The Way Forward Series.
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Author Fouad Ajami and CFR President Emeritus Leslie Gelb discuss the history and current state of Iraqi politics as well as the prospects for the country’s future.
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Listen to experts discuss the marginalized Shia population and its potential influence U.S.policy in the Middle East.
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Panelists discussed the marginalized Shia population and how it might influence U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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