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President-designate, Shalem College
Ph.D., Princeton University
A.M., Princeton University
M.A., Columbia University
A.B., Princeton University
Dr. Martin Kramer is President-designate of Shalem College. Author of the best-selling monograph Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, Dr. Kramer is a renowned authority on contemporary Islam and Arab politics. Currently a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, he earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.
During his twenty-five-year career at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Kramer directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Brandeis University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and Georgetown University, and served twice as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
Books
Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Washington: The Washington Institute, 2001). Click here for free download.
Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996; paperback, 2008)
Hizbollah's Vision of the West (Washington: Washington Institute, 1989)
Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
Edited Books
The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999).
The Islamism Debate (Dayan Center Papers, no. 120) (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1997)
Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991).
Shi‘ism, Resistance, and Revolution (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; London:
Mansell Publishing Limited, 1987).
Protest and Revolution in Shi’i Islam (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 1985; second printing, 1987) [Hebrew].
Selected Publications
Rules of Engagement: How Government Can Leverage Academe, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus no. 103, Washington, 2011.
Fadlallah: The Compass of Hizbullah, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Dayan Center Paper no. 122, Tel Aviv, 1998 [Hebrew].
Hezbollah's Vision of the West, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Paper no. 16, Washington, 1989.
Political Islam, Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington Paper no. 73 (Beverly Hills and London: Sage, 1980).
Encyclopedia Articles
“Bernard Lewis,” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 719-720.
“Elie Kedourie,” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-638.
“Islamic Congresses,” The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (New York: Macmillan, 1996), vol. 2, pp. 894-896.
“Hizbullah in Lebanon,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), vol. 2, pp. 130-133.
“Congresses,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), vol. 1, pp. 308-311.
“Mu’tamar,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2d ed. (Leiden: Brill), vol. 7, fasc. 125-126 (1992), pp. 764-765.
For a complete list of Martin Kramer's publications, view his CV.
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