Fouad A. Ajami (Arabic: فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Ajami was an outspoken supporter of the Bush Doctrine and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which he believed to have been a “noble war” and a “gift” to the people of Iraq.
Books in order of publication:
The Arab Predicament – 1981
The Dream Palace of the Arabs – 1998
The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, The Arabs, and The Iraqis in Iraq (2006)
The Syrian Rebellion – 2012
Crosswinds: The Way of Saudi Arabia (2020)
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