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PJ Media
December 24, 2017
On Friday, a gunman opened fire at a Christmas carol celebration, killing 4 people and injuring 8 others. The attack in Nindem — a village in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna — cast a pall on a historic Christmas celebration recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. The attack may beÃÂ ...
PJ Media
December 10, 2017
Why can't the Lebanese Shi'a all be like the great Fouad Ajami, may he rest in peace. What brilliant man; he is missed. Meanwhile, how many newspapers do you read? I am more than impressed, and fully expect upcoming scoops from the Kathmandu Post and the Astana Times. :) D4x • 2 weeks ago.
Middle East Forum
June 23, 2015
So wrote Fouad Ajami, who died one year ago today, about Joseph Conrad, whose talents for capturing the clash between East and West he judged superior to V.S. Naipaul's. He might have been writing about his own gift for interpreting the Middle East from his adopted American home. The truths heÃÂ ...
The New Republic
June 25, 2014
“We are going to adopt you—we already have, of course—as Ibn Ballad,” Fouad wrote to me a little mischievously last year. “You won that title two years ago when the Arab Spring opened. You seem to have this material in your blood.” My new name was given in recognition of one or another of the futileÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 22, 2014
Fouad Ajami, an academic, author and broadcast commentator on Middle East affairs who helped rally support for the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 — partly by personally advising top policy makers — died on Sunday. He was 68. The cause was cancer, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University,ÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
March 19, 2013
There should be no illusions about the sort of Arab landscape that America is destined to find if, or when, it embarks on a war against the Iraqi regime. There would be no "hearts and minds" to be won in the Arab world, no public diplomacy that would convince the overwhelming majority of Arabs that this war would be a justÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
August 28, 2012
The young Marlowe knew that even the most remote civilization had been made and remade by the West, and taught new ways. Not so Samuel P. Huntington. In a curious essay, "The Clash of Civilizations," Huntington has found his civilizations whole and intact, watertight under an eternal sky. Buried alive, as it were,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 15, 2012
In “The Syrian Rebellion,” the Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami weaves the threads of Syria's past with the events of the previous year to give us a portrait of the country as it hurtles toward its moment of decisive transformation. This is no small feat: Syria is a country of enormous ethnic and religiousÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
February 13, 2017
... to in terms of engaging with world crises and contributing to managing its development. This is something that influential academic and politician Fouad Ajami had called for. Ajami passed away heartbroken because the former administration was ...
The New Yorker
January 4, 2017
He gave the Shiites political hope and political courage to demand an equal share in the social and political process." The late Fouad Ajami, of the Hoover Institution, at Stanford, called Sadr a "towering figure" in Shiite thought. Hamieh, when he was ...
Al-Arabiya
August 26, 2016
In his foreword in Fouad Ajami's book "The Syrian Rebellion," Charles Hill, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, quotes historian Arnold Toynbee as saying: "Syria is the roundabout in which all the forces face one another and spin off ...
Al-Arabiya
August 21, 2016
... and 300,000 Syrian people killed since the crisis erupted are the outcome of international and American inaction. While fiercely criticizing Obama for abandoning Syria, Fouad Ajami said: "Don't tell a man to go to hell unless you intend to send him ...
Ziua News
July 17, 2016
Fouad Ajami observa ca "intr-o societate musulmana sau in alta a scrie despre liberalism si despre traditia nationala burgheza inseamna a scrie necrologurile oamenilor care au facut pasiuni imposibile si apoi au esuat". Esecul general al democratiei ...
Ziua News
July 17, 2016
Fouad Ajami observa ca "intr-o societate musulmana sau in alta a scrie despre liberalism si despre traditia nationala burgheza inseamna a scrie necrologurile oamenilor care au facut pasiuni imposibile si apoi au esuat". Esecul general al democratiei ...
Daily Observer
June 15, 2016
As Fouad Ajami wrote in his first book The Arab Predicament, "In Kishk's account there is grudging admiration for the clarity with which the Israelis saw the war, for the fact that young Israeli soldiers prayed behind their rabbis at the Wailing Wall ...
The Atlantic
June 6, 2016
As Fouad Ajami wrote in his first book The Arab Predicament, "In Kishk's account there is grudging admiration for the clarity with which the Israelis saw the war, for the fact that young Israeli soldiers prayed behind their rabbis at the Wailing Wall ...
WBUR
May 31, 2016
Read: A Foreigner's Gift by Fouad Ajami, you may learn something? The Republican calculus was fixed before Obama took the Oath of Office in 2008.
il Giornale
May 30, 2016
... con cui Bernard spesso si intratteneva in conversazioni, c'era il leader dei Sufi, Sheikh Kabbani, sempre intento a trovare un contatto coi non musulmani; c'era Fouad Ajami, il grande storico libanese ormai scomparso che aveva avuto il coraggio di ...
The Boston Globe
March 31, 2016
... subjugation to the outsiders, a world that seems to be perpetually in crisis, young men and women who have strayed from time-honored ways, and have felt the urge to withdraw and some the urge to destroy, " wrote the late Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins.
Open Democracy
March 2, 2016
As the United States prepared for war in response to the 9/11 attacks, the late Fouad Ajami issued a prescient warning: "There will be chameleons good at posing as America's friends but never turning up when needed.
The Indian Express
February 20, 2016
A Shia visitor to Kuwait in 1985 from southern Lebanon, author Fouad Ajami, aroused hostility among the local intellectuals who saw his Shia faith in a negative light.
Fair Observer
February 16, 2016
Other countries are grappling with the same problems, though not exercising the level of mayhem as the states mentioned. Taken together, it seems that we are now witnessing an updated version of the late Fouad Ajami's description of the Arab predicament.
Vox
February 16, 2016
These arguments relied increasingly on a small circle of Middle East scholars such as Fouad Ajami, whose 1998 book Dream Palace of the Arabs had rooted the region's problems in a self-perpetuating social and political rot.
International New York Times
December 3, 2015
Theirs were the educated choices of what the late Fouad Ajami called "Islam's nowhere men," people for whom Western freedom became alienation.
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