Fouad A Ajami was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues.
25 Facts About Fouad Ajami
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Fouad Ajami was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Fouad Ajami was born in Arnoun, a rocky hamlet in the south of Lebanon into a Shia Muslim family.
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Fouad Ajami did some of his undergraduate work at Eastern Oregon State College in La Grande, Oregon.
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Fouad Ajami did his graduate work at the University of Washington, where he wrote his thesis on international relations and world government, and earned a PhD.
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In 1973 Fouad Ajami joined the politics department of Princeton University.
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Fouad Ajami made a name for himself there as a vocal supporter of Palestinian self-determination.
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Fouad Ajami was an advisor to United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as a friend and colleague of Paul Wolfowitz.
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Fouad Ajami was a frequent contributor on Middle Eastern issues and contemporary international history to The New York Times Book Review, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, as well as other journals and periodicals.
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Fouad Ajami was a contributor and close friend to Anderson Cooper of CNN.
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Fouad Ajami frequently appeared on PBS, CBS, CNN and Fox News.
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Fouad Ajami holds an endowed chair as the Majid Khadduri professor.
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Subsequently, Fouad Ajami has written several other books: The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey, Beirut: City of Regrets, and The Vanished Imam: Musa Al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon.
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Fouad Ajami believes that states will remain the dominant factor influencing the global framework and interaction.
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Fouad Ajami argues that civilizational ties are only utilized by states and groups when it is in their best interest to do so and that modernity and secularism are here to stay, especially in places with considerable struggles to obtain them, and he cites the example of the Indian middle class.
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Fouad Ajami believes that civilizations do not control states; rather, states control civilizations.
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Fouad Ajami cautioned the United States about the likely negative consequences of the Iraq War.
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Fouad Ajami retained a positive view of the war three years later.
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Eight days after US President Barack Obama took office, a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece by Ajami called Obama a "messenger of the old, settled ways," claimed that the George W Bush administration's diplomacy had had "revolutionary impact," and chided Obama for not praising the Iraq War.
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Fouad Ajami credited the Egyptian Revolution and Tunisian revolution to the Iraq War and Bush's advocacy of democracy:.
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On June 22,2014, Fouad Ajami died from prostate cancer at a summer home in Maine, aged 68.
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Fouad Ajami was a 1982 winner of a five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship in the arts and sciences.
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Fouad Ajami was a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the board of advisors of the journal Foreign Affairs.
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Fouad Ajami was a founding member of ASMEA and was vice chairman of its academic council.
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Fouad Ajami was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the cochair of their Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.