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.

Creates the most penetrating liberal critique of Arab political culture from within — Ajami's The Dream Palace of the Arabs (a tour through Arab intellectual life's encounter with modernity and defeat) is the richest single-author account of Arab intellectual history's failures and yearnings in the 20th century.