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Martin Kramer is The Washington Institute's Walter P. Stern Fellow and author of one of its most widely read monographs, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America.

An authority on the history and politics of the Middle East, Dr. Kramer earned his doctorate at Princeton University under the supervision of Bernard Lewis. He then spent twenty-five years at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He later became the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s first liberal arts college, where he continues to teach the modern history of the Middle East.

Dr. Kramer has taught as a visiting professor at Brandeis University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Georgetown University, and The Johns Hopkins University (SAIS). He has also served as a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and Harvard University's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.

 

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Featured Publications

Maps & Graphics
The Lines That Bind: 100 Years of Sykes-Picot
A century after diplomats Mark Sykes of Britain and François Georges-Picot of France drew up a secret agreement to divide
Dec 19, 2016
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  • Andrew J. Tabler
Rules of Engagement: How Government Can Leverage Academe
For almost two generations, major parts of academe have been alienated from America's exercise of power due to entrenched ideological
Jun 20, 2011
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  • Martin Kramer
Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America
Are Middle Eastern studies in America in trouble? To judge from the numbers, the answer would appear to be "no."
Oct 1, 2001
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  • Martin Kramer

Policy Articles by Martin Kramer

Articles & Testimony
The Ghost of Annexation Past
Jun 25, 2020
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  • Martin Kramer
Articles & Testimony
What ‘Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa’ Teaches About Our Own Plague-Stricken Time
Apr 21, 2020
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  • Martin Kramer
Articles & Testimony
Seven Black Swans in the Middle East
Sep 24, 2019
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  • Martin Kramer
In-Depth Reports
The King Is Dead! Does It Matter? Sudden Succession Essay Series
Apr 11, 2019
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  • Martin Kramer
Brief Analysis
Sending the Right Message in Cairo: Advice for Secretary Pompeo
Jan 7, 2019
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  • Anna Borshchevskaya
  • Soner Cagaptay
  • Simon Henderson
  • Martin Kramer
  • Matthew Levitt
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Brief Analysis
Bernard Lewis: Appreciating a Scholar of Consequence
Jul 24, 2018
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  • Martin Kramer
  • Katherine Hughes
  • Michael Doran
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