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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Martin KramerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781412864992ISBN 10: 1412864992 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 30 November 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Middle East (Studies) Conflict 1 Dangerous Orientalists 2 The Shifting Sands of Academe 3 Surveying the Middle East 4 Policy and the Academy Part II. Missing Islam 5 Fundamentalists or Islamists? 6 ""Islamic Fascism"" 7 Islam for Viewers Like You 8 Afghani and America 9 He Might Have Been Pope 10 Hamas of the Intellectuals 11 Know Thy Enemy Part III. Misunderstood Arabs 12 1967 and Memory 13 Sadat and Begin: The Peacemakers 14 When Minorities Rule 15 Syria in the Fertile Crescent 16 Arab Spring, Arab Crisis 17 Listening to Arabs Part IV. Inventing Israel's History 18 What Happened at Lydda 19 Shabtai Teveth and the Whole Truth 20 Who Censored the Six-Day War? Part V. Elders of Zion 21 The Exodus Conspiracy 22 In the Words of Martin Luther King 23 Israel and the Iraq War 24 Fouad Ajami Goes to Israel 25 ""Gaza Is Auschwitz"" Epilogue Index"ReviewsThe best antidote to academic assaults on Israel and false versions of Zionist history is Martin Kramer. These essays on Israel and on current Arab and Islamic politics show him at his best: a sharp, wise, and very funny guide. If you don't know Kramer, you're in for an intellectual feast. --Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Martin Kramer spans an unusual range. He is a first-rate historian of the modern Middle East who is as masterful with social media as he is with the traditional archive. This new collection of essays and papers deals with the most current issues in Middle Eastern politics and policies from a perspective that only a profound historian possesses. But Kramer is not encumbered by his academic baggage; he writes well and vividly. I sometimes disagree with him but I always read carefully and learn something new or different. I strongly recommend the book for the professional and the lay reader. --Itamar Rabinovich, president of the Israel Institute and former Israeli ambassador to the United States [Kramer] fearlessly and eloquently exposes the myths, half-truths, and outright lies that pervade the public discussion, and so inhibit public understanding, of the region he knows so well. --Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Correcting error is the indispensable first step in stopping terror. No one writes better on the Middle East, its distorters and misinterpreters than Martin Kramer. He must be read--to be believed. --Ruth R. Wisse, former professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, Harvard University What is the Talmudic spirit? It is to poke, probe and provoke, never to let received notions stand. Today's Middle East harbors more half-truths and willful misrepresentations than oil under its sands. Concepts like 'Orientalism' are ideologies posing as dispassionate scholarship. Islamism is a magnet for apologists blind to the region's cultural pathologies. Terrorism is transfigured into legitimate anti-colonialism, even though the Arab world has been independent for two, three generations. Martin Kramer has done the 'Talmudic' thing, exposing sloppy or mean-spirited thinking with an incisive mind and first-rate empirical research. This collection is required reading for anybody who prefers intellectual rigor to ideological obfuscation. --Josef Joffe, fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Martin Kramer is a major scholarly contributor to the worldwide political debate about the contemporary Middle East. Not all will agree with his strong views, but they are always stimulating and challenging, and it is worth taking up such a challenge in the unprecedented chaos that the region has witnessed since 9/11, both within its ever-changing borders and in its complex relations with Europe and America. --Gilles Kepel, professor at the Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and member of the Institut universitaire de France Martin Kramer, a preeminent and prolific scholar of the Middle East, provides expert and singularly clear-sighted insights into this crucial region. Whether writing about the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the West's relations with Islam, or the global struggle against terror, Kramer is at once deeply informed, courageous, and engaging. --Michael Oren, member of Knesset and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Kramer is not only a distinguished scholar of the Middle East who writes with an eye to the past as well as the present (and future), but also a gifted prose stylist. -Lee Smith, The Weekly Standard Author InformationMartin Kramer is the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel where he also chairs the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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