Ajami of SAIS Is Recipient of National Humanities
Medal

Ajami
Photo by Kaveh Sardari
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Fouad Ajami, the Majid Khadduri Professor in Middle
East Studies and director of the Middle East Studies
Program at SAIS,
received a National Humanities Medal from President George
W. Bush last week at a ceremony held in the Oval Office.
Ajami, considered one of the most politically
influential Arab-American intellectuals of his generation,
was one of 10 men and women honored in 2006 by the National
Endowment for the Humanities for work that has "deepened
the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our
citizens' engagement with the humanities or helped preserve
and expand Americans' access to important resources in the
humanities." The National Humanities Medal was first
awarded in 1989 as the Charles Frankel Prize.
An expert on Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, the Persian
Gulf, Arab-Israeli relations, OPEC and Islamic religion,
culture and law, Ajami is also a contributing editor to
U.S. News & World Report, a member of the editorial
board of Foreign Affairs and a consultant to CBS
News. His most recent book is The Foreigner's Gift: The
Americans, the Arabs and the Iraqis in Iraq (Free
Press, 2006).
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