Word: fouad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fouad Ajami, an expert on Middle East politics whose opinions were widely quoted during the Gulf War, has declined Harvard's offer of a lifetime appointment, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday...
...Fouad Ajami. Director of Middle East studies, Johns Hopkins University...
...deeply rooted in the Arab psyche's mixture of bravado, rhetoric and religious conviction. Arabs denied Israel's existence for decades and believed that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had a trick up his sleeve when his air force was destroyed in the first hours of the 1967 war. Fouad Subhi, a butcher at the Baqa'a refugee camp near Amman, still puts his faith in Saddam: "After he rebuilds Iraq, he will try to liberate Palestine again...
...demise of the Pan-Arab dream evident in these surveys is hardly a recent phenomenon. According to Professor Fouad Ajami, the victory of the more "local" Ibn Saud over the "pan-Arab" Shariff Hussein half a century ago may be regarded as the first victory of the state over transnationalism. Dr. Ajami and other experts on the region have interpreted the chronic instability of Lebanon as yet another manifestation of the erosion of Pan-Arabism...
...response to emotions of anger and resentment," said Dwight Eisenhower, who regularly counseled the courage of patience. But if war begins, anger and resentment is what it will have come down to. "It is about power and commitment," says Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University. "On both sides, the greatest fear is being seen to be a wimp." The best analogy is perhaps literary. In "Shooting an Elephant," George Orwell's colonial functionary kills a rogue elephant because those watching him expect it. "It is the condition of ((the white man's)) rule," Orwell...