Martin Kramer (Tel Aviv University/ Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

"Semites, Anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis: The Life and Afterlife of a Seminal Book"
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Martin Kramer is a historian of the Middle East and Israel at Tel Aviv University, and the Walter P. Stern Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He was the founding president of Shalem College, a liberal arts school in Jerusalem, and a visiting professor or fellow at Brandeis, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the Wilson Center. He earned his degrees from Princeton, under the supervision of Bernard Lewis. Among his many publications on Islam, Israel, and the Middle East, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (2001) has been widely discussed and influential.