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Martin Kramer

Martin Kramer

 


Martin Kramer is President-designate of Shalem College (in formation) and author of the best-selling monograph, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. An authority on contemporary Islam and Arab politics, Kramer earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Kramer is currently a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

 

During a twenty-five-year career at Tel Aviv University, he directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies; 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.

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

Books

  

Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1986)

 

Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Washington: The Washington Institute, 2001)
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Hizbollah's Vision of the West (Washington: Washington Institute, 1989)

 

Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the
Middle East
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996;
paperback, 2008)

 

For a full list of Martin Kramer's publications, click here.

 

 

Courses Taught

 

Reading the Map of the Middle East

 

Website: http://www.martinkramer.org

 
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