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4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Bernard Lewis

British-American scholar at Princeton — the most influential Western historian of the Islamic world — author of The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, What Went Wrong — whose writings on Islam and the West influenced the neoconservative Middle East policy agenda.

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Fouad Ajami

Lebanese-American scholar — Majid Khadduri Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS — Hoover Institution senior fellow — author of The Arab Predicament, The Dream Palace of the Arabs, and The Foreigner's Gift — one of the most intellectually distinguished Arab-American analysts of the Arab world.

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Janan Mosazai

Afghan diplomat — former Afghan Ambassador to the United States — who represented Afghanistan internationally during the Karzai and Ghani governments.

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Michael Totten

American independent journalist — who covered the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus as an independent blogger-journalist — one of the pioneer independent online war correspondents — author of The Road to Fatima Gate and Where the West Ends.

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