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Martin Kramer (b. 1954 , Washington, DC ) is an American scholar of the Middle East at the Washington Institute For Near East Policy . His focus is on Islam and Arab politics.


EDUCATION

Kramer began his undergraduate degree under Itamar Rabinovich in Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University and completed his B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University . He earned his Ph.D. in Princeton as well, under Fouad Ajami , L. Carl Brown , the late Charles Issawi , and Bernard Lewis , who directed his thesis. He also received a History M.A. from Columbia University . Martin Kramer/Juan Cole: Oppo Research

  • Tel Aviv University, 1971-73 - Middle Eastern Studies

  • B.A. Princeton University, 1975 (summa cum laude) - Near Eastern Studies

  • M.A. Columbia University, 1976 - History

  • M.A. Princeton University, 1978 - Near Eastern Studies

  • Ph.D. Princeton University, 1982 - Near Eastern Studies {Link without Title}



CAREER


During a 25-year career at Tel Aviv University , Martin Kramer 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. He currently holds the Wexler-Fromer Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

He is a senior and past editor of the 2006 ( Front Page Magazine publishes selected pieces of Kramer's on its website Martin Kramer's Columns )


POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

Kramer supported , November 11 , 2002

Kramer is a member of two think tanks: the , 2005

Martin Kramer was an early advocate of attacking , 2002


CRITICISM

In early 2006, Kramer was criticised in a working paper entitled '''', Volume 28 Number 6, March 22, 2006. Accessed March 24, 2006.
Kramer has since responded. '' Stephen Walt's World '', Martin Kramer, March 17 2006.'' A Powerful Lobby '', Martin Kramer, April 3 2006.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Books

  • ''Political Islam'' (1980) ISBN 0803914350

  • ''Islam Assembled'' (1985) ISBN 0231059949

  • ''Shi'ism, Resistance, and Revolution'' (1987) ISBN 0813304539

  • ''Hezbollah's Vision of the West'' (1989) ISBN 0944029019

  • ''Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)'' (1991) ISBN 0815625480

  • ''Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East'' (1996) ISBN 1560002727

  • ''The Islamism Debate'' (1997) ISBN 9652240249

  • ''The Jewish Discovery of Islam'' (1999) ISBN 9652240400

  • ''Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America'' (2001) ISBN 0944029493



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