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The U.S. had no trouble living with the Arab autocrats. It did so, as George W. Bush once put it in a memorable speech, for six long decades...
August 1, 2012 | Uncommon Knowledge
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July 29, 2012 | Washington Post
July 19, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
A rebel bomb tears through a cabinet meeting, killing top lieutenants and relatives of Damascus's dictator...
June 26, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Egyptians deserve a decent interval before Western observers consign them again to a despotic fate...
June 20, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
On a recent visit to Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, ordinary Syrians asked me why the U.S. is not more concerned with their fate...
May 26, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
It is not a coincidence that one candidate is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the other Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister...
May 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
The American people may demand more than the killing of bin Laden and the hunting down of Somali pirates...
April 24, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
A no-fly, no-drive zone on the border with Turkey would critically alter the terms of engagement. Everyone is waiting on Washington's leadership...
April 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
When crafting foreign policy, the late president didn't 'give a damn how the election goes'...
February 24, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
We can lend a hand to its tyrannized people or risk turning the country into a devil's playground of religious extremism...
February 10, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Bill Clinton stood up to Milosevic. Barack Obama can confront Assad...
February 7, 2012 | New Republic
A Syrian novel and a Syrian revolution...
February 1, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Vladimir Putin stands by fellow strongman Bashar Assad in Syria, lest Russians get any uppity ideas about democracy...
January 24, 2012 | Foreign Affairs
A Year of Living Dangerously...
January 23, 2012 | Newsweek
Modern Syria was made by a cruel strongman. His son, also cruel, is a man of straw...
January 12, 2012 | Washington Post
When the Arab Spring began a year ago, the Western world was shocked...
January 6, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Deep down, the Obama administration seems to believe that Assad's tyranny is preferable to the opposition...
December 12, 2011 | Newsweek
Greece lives with the sense that it is exempt from the demands of political and economic discipline...
November 29, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
What we are witnessing is not the consequence of democracy but rather a half-century of authoritarianism...
November 19, 2011 | New Republic
He offers us the most peculiar of gifts—the right to stay on indefinitely, shore up his regime, and pour our scarce treasure for his family and retainers. That Afghan lion doesn’t make its own kills...
October 21, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
We needn't dispatch our forces to all lands of trouble, but our burden of celebrating liberty on foreign shores endures...
October 12, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
'If you want another Steve Jobs, stop the killing of Syrian children...'
September 23, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The U.N. deliberations are theater. There can be no avoiding direct negotiations...
September 12, 2011 | Daily Beast
Fouad Ajami writes that 10 years after 9/11, Americans are perhaps too quick to forgive—while honest Arab reflection about that day is scarce...
August 24, 2011 | New Republic
Of the 19 young Arabs who struck the United States on September 11, the Lebanese-born Ziad Jarrah, who is thought to have been at the controls of the plane forced down by its heroic passengers in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, has always been of greater interest to me than the others, and for strictly parochial reasons: We were both born in the same country, but two generations apart.
September 8, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The current uprising is directed not against foreign demons, but against cruel rulers who robbed their people of a decent life...
August 31, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
In stark contrast to the challenges faced by Iraq, fair winds attend the Libyan venture...
August 24, 2011 | New Republic
Of the 19 young Arabs who struck the United States on September 11, the Lebanese-born Ziad Jarrah, who is thought to have been at the controls of the plane forced down by its heroic passengers in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, has always been of greater interest to me than the others...
August 23, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Four decades of a nation's life were squandered by this regime. Surely the successor can do better...
August 15, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The least President Obama can do is call for Bashar Assad, the orchestrator of the slaughter, to step down...
August 7, 2011 | Newsweek
By standing by as Syria's rebellion is brutally put down, Western nations are showing Assad he can get away with continuing his father's violence...
August 1, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
His lack of faith in American exceptionalism has dashed any hope of a 'transformational' presidency...
July 11, 2011 | Daily Beast
When the Defense secretary said the U.S. is in Iraq because of 9/11, his handlers launched into spin mode—but Fouad Ajami says he wasn't all wrong...
July 8, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The dictators who came to power in the 1950s and '60s were economic levelers who impoverished their countries. Today's unrest is the result...
June 24, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
It was Ayman al-Zawahiri who decreed that it was just to strike the 'far enemy'—the United States...
June 23, 2011 | New Republic
It is difficult being war hawks and budget hawks at the same time. Empire, and its wars, are sure not what they used to be. It is sobering that we have poured so much blood and treasure into Afghanistan and we have so little to say about it...
June 13, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The mask of the Assad regime finally falls, and the world is forced to confront its illusions about Iran's ally and Hezbollah's patron...
June 3, 2011 | New Republic
We've made progress—and we shouldn't remove all U.S. troops...
June 1, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The General Assembly vote that created Israel was the culmination of decades of hard work on the ground...
May 17, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The 1978 murder of a luminary of the Shiite religious class, Imam Musa al-Sadr, foreshadowed the Libyan dictator's later crimes against humanity...
May 3, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Expelled from Afghanistan, rejected in Iraq, he died as a new Arab order that has nothing to do with jihad is struggling to be born...
April 25, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
It is unlikely that the Gadhafis and Mubaraks could have entertained thoughts of succession for their sons had they not seen the ease with which Syria became an odd creature—a republican monarchy...
March 23, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Benghazi would have been the president's Srebrenica. He had little choice but to act.
February 26, 2011 | New York Times
Perhaps this Arab Revolution of 2011 had a scent for the geography of grief and cruelty...
February 22, 2011 | Foreign Policy
What if the big message of the WikiLeaks cables is that there is no message...?
February 12, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
We must remember that Mohamed Atta and Ayman Zawahiri were bred in the tyranny of Hosni Mubarak...
February 13, 2011 | New York Times
An ex-C.I.A. bin Laden hunter worries about U.S. complacency...
February 6, 2011 | Newsweek
In lands that have been plundered and tyrannized, the Arab Revolution of 2011 has been smoldering for decades. What finally turned resignation into rebellion...
January 29, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
A man who places himself at the helm for three decades inevitably becomes the target of all the realm's discontents...
January 19, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
The secretary is right about the Mideast's troubled autocrats. Too bad her boss decided to cast his lot with them...
January 16, 2011 | Newsweek
The Christian Arabs were sure that a new age of Arab enlightenment would make room for them. How tragically wrong they were...
December 28, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Americans prefer a leader who does not stand aloof from the weight and the lessons of our history...
December 15, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
The savior of Sarajevo believed that American power should be used for good...
November 30, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Foreign leaders will continue to talk to us. It is the way of power to brag, and to tempt visitors from afar...
November 24, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Gravy, for a man of the Mediterranean, is irredeemable...
October 27, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Our longest war is now being waged with doubt and hesitation, and our ally on the scene has gone rogue, taking the coin of our enemies and scoffing at our purposes...
October 6, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Iraq's Shiites, especially, have a healthy fear of Iran and a desire to keep Persian power at bay...
September 20, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
A survey by Elaph, the most respected electronic daily in the Arab world, saw 58% object to the building of the WTC mosque...
August 23, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
The last 20 years would have been very different had American forces taken that open road to Baghdad the first time around...
August 11, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it...
July 26, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
No great upheaval has taken place in the Egypt of Hosni Mubarak. But the country has stagnated, and some of its children have blamed the U.S. and embraced terror...
July 21, 2010 | New Republic
The war in Afghanistan is the revenge of the Iraq war. It was amid the great debate about Iraq that there was born the myth of Afghanistan as the good war of “necessity”—the September 11 war...
June 28, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
There is a mismatch between the general's Afghan mission and the president's summons to his countrymen...
June 18, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
South Africa's reaction to a red card is a real testament to its culture...
June 11, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Facebook had no answer to the pro-regime vigilantes who ruled the streets. And the U.S. president, who might have helped, stood aside...
June 5, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Fouad Ajami on his favorite books about financial dynasties...
May 10, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Millions like Faisal Shahzad are unsettled by a modern world they can neither master nor reject.
April 9, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
President Karzai's anti-American shift is a statement about the standing of the Obama administration in the region.
March 2, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Forgive Vice President Joe Biden the audacity of claiming last month on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Iraq is destined to be "one of the great achievements of this administration." . . .
January 31, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Unlike this president, John Kennedy was an ironist who never fell for his own mystique. . . .
December 30, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue. . . .
November 29, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends. . . .
November 9, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
Will the peoples of Islam tear down their walls as the people of Central and Eastern Europe tore down theirs? . . .
September 11, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
The road that led to 9/11 was never a defining concern of President Barack Obama...
August 25, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
So we are to have a French health-care system without a French tradition of political protest...
August 5, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
‘It made me feel so jealous,” said Abdulmonem Ibrahim, a young Egyptian political activist, of the recent upheaval in Iran...
August 6, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
“It made me feel so jealous,” said Abdulmonem Ibrahim, a young Egyptian political activist, of the recent upheaval in Iran. “We are amazed at the organization and speed with which the Iranian movement has been functioning...”
July 29, 2009 | New York Times
A departure and a return: In the legend of Moorish Spain, Boabdil, the last Muslim ruler of Granada, is said to have paused on a ridge for a final glimpse of the realm he had just surrendered to the Castilians...
September 10, 2008 | Wall Street Journal
The candidacy of Barack Obama seems to have lost some of its luster of late, and I suspect this has something to do with large questions many Americans still harbor about his view of the dangerous world around us...
March 19, 2008 | Wall Street Journal
Wars have never been easy to defend....
Blogs
November 26, 2012 | TonyBlairFaithFoundation
May 14, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 Blog (CNN.com)
Fouad Ajami traveled to Turkey with Anderson Cooper to meet Syrian families living in refugee camps after escaping attacks in Syria and fleeing across the border...
April 16, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
The Afghans want us to stay, so it is long past time to haul up the gear and leave the Hindu Kush to its ways...
April 12, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
The Caravan project of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order has put together a round table about the vital question of America’s options in Afghanistan...
February 23, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
An irresistible force has clashed with an immovable object, and the stalemate will have to be broken by outsiders...
October 11, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
If the Syrian people needed illumination about the cruel ways of the world, the United Nations Security Council provided it, when a toothless resolution condemning the violence of their rulers was turned back on October 4...
May 12, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The Syrians know beyond the shadow of doubt the stuff of which their ruling cabal – and their president – are made. And the rulers have looked in wonder as unarmed young people have braved armor and tanks in the hope that can break out of the grip of this monstrous regime...
April 28, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The [National Transitional Council in Benghazi] bodes well for the future, American officials say, it is “worthy of our support,” but we are not yet ready to recognize it...
April 12, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
We have traded roles with the French. They are keen to support liberty in different places, while we stand there unsure of freedom’s call upon us...
January 24, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Forgive the Egyptians if they can’t find their way out of the grip of this autocracy. But Barack Obama is not bound by this bleak logic. He owes it to the Egyptians to show some semblance of sympathy for their democratic aspirations...
January 14, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
...[I]n truth Maddow and Beck are creatures of the new media, commentators who sprang from nowhere, their stock in trade is opinion pure and simple...
December 8, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
The arrival of King Abdullah in New York on November 22, for surgery, has occasioned a flood of commentary about Saudi Arabia and the matter of succession in that opaque realm...
November 11, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
President Obama now concedes that his outreach to the Islamic world is an “incomplete project.” I have been teaching for well over three decades, and from my experience I can say that most incomplete grades are never made up...
November 1, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
Forget Afghanistan, the true sanctuary and playground for terrorism is Yemen, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula...
October 25, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
The firing of Juan Williams – a confused and confusing journalist for whom I have no use – by National Public Radio is not a boon for Islam in America...
October 19, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
[T]he Pakistanis may not be the most resolute of allies. But we should not be surprised if others hedge their bets when they hear our uncertain trumpet, when we tell them that we are marking time in their midst, and that our military effort in the Afghan war is a prelude for an imminent withdrawal...
Interviews
May 17, 2013 | Wall Street Journal Live
May 16, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
May 13, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
May 6, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
May 1, 2013 | Opinion Journal (WSJ Live)
April 22, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
March 29, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
March 20, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
March 5, 2013 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
March 4, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
February 15, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
January 25, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
November 28, 2012 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
November 28, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
November 26, 2012 | Lou Dobbs Tonight (Fox Business)
November 26, 2012 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
November 17, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
September 24, 2012 | BBC Radio
September 26, 2012 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
September 21, 2012 | Daily Wrap (Wall Street Journal Radio Network)
September 21, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
September 18, 2012 | Newsday
September 17, 2012 | Talk of the Nation (NPR)
September 14, 2012 | AC360 Blog (CNN.com)
August 22, 2012 | Brian Lehrer Show
August 20, 2012 | America's Radio News Network - Mid-Day Edition
August 6, 2012 | Gil Gross Program (KKSF)
July 31, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
July 25, 2012 | America's Radio News Network - Mid-Morning Edition
July 9, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
June 27, 2012 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
June 22, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Dan Henninger, WSJ; Leisel Bogan, Hoover; Kate Galbraith, Texas Tribune; Fouad Ajami, Hoover...
June 20, 2012 | Amanpour (CNN International)
Guest host Ali Velshi speaks with U.S. Congressman Ron Paul and author Fouad Ajami about whether in intervene in Syria...
June 19, 2012 | Gil Gross Program (KKSF)
Gil talks with Fouad Ajami, Hoover fellow and author of "The Syrian Rebellion," about what is happening in Syria and what part should the United States be playing...
June 18, 2012 | Charlie Rose
Fouad Ajami of the Hoover Institution & David Ignatius of The Washington Post on Egypt...
June 14, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents; Walter Russel Mead, Bard College; Fouad Ajami, author...
June 9, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan by John R. Satterfield; The Syrian Rebellion (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order) by Fouad Ajami...
May 30, 2012 | America's Morning News
Fouad Ajami talks with America's Morning News about the brutal crack down in Syria. Ajami is author of 'The Syrian Rebellion' and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution...
May 29, 2012 | Daily Wrap (Wall Street Journal Radio Network)
Will Syria respond to international pressure...
May 28, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Fouad Ajami and Fran Townsend discuss the violence against civilians in Syria and options for U.S. involvement...
May 14, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Fouad Ajami says Pres. Obama may regret not helping people in Syria the way Pres. Clinton did after the Rwanda Genocide...
May 2, 2012 | America's News HQ (Fox News)
Fouad Ajami and Nazila Fathi on issues Egypt is facing leading into the May presidential election...
April 30, 2012 | Talk of the Nation (NPR)
As Syria continues its violent crackdown, Hoover Institution senior fellow Fouad Ajami argues that the U.S. has forsaken Syria and its people and provided the regime with a lifeline...
April 26, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Henry Nau, Hoover; Tim Wilson, IPA; Salena Zito, PTR; Lara Brown, Villanova University...
April 20, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Professor Ajami says the U.N.'s plan to end violence in Syria won't work. Professor Lopez thinks it's the only choice right now...
April 17, 2012 | America's Radio News Network - Mid-Morning Edition
Dr. Fouad Ajami, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, tells America's Radio News that the Obama administration refused to allow newly established Lybian government to send arms to Syrian opposition to defend itself against Assad forces...
April 16, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Declan Walsh, NYT; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; David Kirkpatrick, NYT; Atossa Abrahamian, Reuters...
March 28, 2012 | To The Point (KCRW)
This week's Arab League Summit puts Iraq -- a country still torn by political and religious tensions and recent outbreaks of violence -- back in the news...
March 15, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Fouad Ajami will discuss the release of the Assad family with Anderson Cooper...
March 2, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Paul Vigna, Dow Jones; Kevin Roose, NYT; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Brian Chen, NYT...
February 29, 2012 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
We’ll have the latest on the Syrian uprising, and discuss whether the U.S. should get involved; we’ll also explore what’s ahead for the U.S. in Afghanistan, the conflicting intelligence reports about Iran and its nuclear program...
February 24, 2012 | CNN
Kate Bolduan and Fouad Ajami discuss the violence in Syria and what the international community is doing about it...
February 23, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks with Christiane Amanpour and Fouad Ajami about Marie Colvin and growing conflict in Syria...
February 21, 2012 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper talks with Fouad Ajami after he met with exiled Syrian leaders about the fate of the people in Syria...
February 6, 2012 | Charlie Rose
A discussion about the the crisis in Syria with Fouad Ajami of Stanford University; Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times; Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma; and Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton University...
February 3, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution; Gretchen Morgenson, NYT; Bob Zimmerman, Behind the Black; Megan Garber, The Atlantic...
January 25, 2012 | Madeleine Brand Show (KPCC)
During Tuesday night's State of the Union speech, President Obama touted his foreign policy accomplishments. He talked about ending the Iraq war, putting pressure on Iran and killing Osama Bin Laden...
January 13, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Tyler Rogoway, Aviation Intel; Jody Shenn, Bloomberg; Bruce Dorminey, Science Magazine; Fouad Ajami, Hoover...
November 30, 2011 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
The latest on the Egyptian elections, and is it time to quit Pakistan? That and more on this hour of Foxnews.com LIVE. Defcon3 with KT...
November 30, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Eric Trager, Washington Institute; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; David Livingston, The Space Show; Haym Benaroya, Rutgers; Greg Zuckerman, WSJ...
October 12, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Francesca Guerrera, WSJ; Ali Soufan, author; Rezza Kahlili, author...
September 18, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Mona Charen, NRO Online; Jody Schneider, Bloomberg; Larry Johnson, NoQuarter; Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Revew; Rufus Phillips, Why Vietnam Matters; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal; Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy; Fouad Ajami, Hoover...
September 15, 2011 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
A Tour from Kabul to the Pentagon — K.T. McFarland examines the national security issues affecting our country...
September 12, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Fouad Ajami, Hoover; David Weidner, WSJ; Jeff Faust, TheSpaceReview.com; Laura Kasinof, NYT...
September 5, 2011 | Talk of the Nation (NPR)
NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, discuss the rapidly evolving situation in Libya and the country's next steps...
September 1, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to Fouad Ajami and Anthony Shadid about the chaos in Syria...
September 1, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Fouad Ajami, WSJ; Bill McGurn, WSJ; William Cohan, Bloomberg; Art Harman, SaveMannedSpace.com...
August 26, 2011 | Secure Freedom Radio
Today's Featured Guest is Fouad Ajami who discusses the revolution in Libya...
August 25, 2011 | Situation Room (CNN)
Middle East expert Fouad Ajami discusses the photo album of Condoleezza Rice found in Gadhafi's compound in Libya...
August 24, 2011 | Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft (WLS)
Fouad Ajami - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution - joins Bruce and Dan...
August 23, 2011 | Daily Wrap (Wall Street Journal Radio Network)
...[T]he latest on Libya and what the future could be for them...
August 22, 2011 | American Morning (CNN)
Fouad Ajami, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the rebel forces and who may take power in Libya...
August 16, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: John Fund, WSJ; Larry Kudlow, CNBC and 77 WABC; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Bret Stephens, WSJ…
August 9, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Ann Marlowe, Hudson Institute; Landon Thomas, NYT; Bob Zimmerman, BehindTheBlack.com; Fouad Ajami, Hoover...
August 8, 2011 | CNN
CNN's John King talks to Fouad Ajami and author Robin Wright about the Middle East's reaction to President Assad...
July 29, 2011 | Uncommon Knowledge
The West declines as the Arab world rises? Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill remark on this prospect...
July 28, 2011 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill describe the rise and fall of the Arab Spring...
July 27, 2011 | Uncommon Knowledge
A decade later, how has the U.S. done in its reaction to 9/11? Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill respond...
July 26, 2011 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill connect economics and the clash of Islam and the West...
July 25, 2011 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill discuss the origins of the collision of Islam and the West...
July 15, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper speaks with Fouad Ajami and Khalid Abdalla about renewed protests for change in Egypt...
June 14, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: John Fund, WSJ; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Bill Roggio, LongWarJournal.org; Arif Rafiq, ForeignPolicy.com...
June 13, 2011 | Talk of the Nation (NPR)
Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, says Syria's brutal regime has now lost its false mask of moderation...
June 8, 2011 | In the Arena (CNN)
Middle East expert Fouad Ajami says the U.S. fell under the spell of Syria's pr machine too long and now sees its deceit...
June 2, 2011 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
On Syria, Egypt, and Bernard Lewis' new book, "The End of Modern History in the Middle East," with the Introduction written by Fouad Ajami...
June 1, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Prof. Fouad Ajami speak with Anderson Cooper about the Assad regime in Syria...
June 1, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Mosi Secret, NYT; Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution...
May 31, 2011 | In the Arena (CNN)
Fouad Ajami says Arab states are "very committed" to the Syrian regime, despite the brutal death of a teen protester...
May 30, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's John King and Arwa Damon speak with Prof. Fouad Ajami about the anti-government protests in Syria...
May 16, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper speaks with CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty and Prof. Fouad Ajami about Syria...
May 5, 2011 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
April 29, 2011 | Situation Room (CNN)
CNN's Wolf Blitzer asks Prof. Fouad Ajami if the U.S. needs to take further action in Syria...
April 26, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: John Fund, WSJ; Larry Kudlow, CNBC and 77 WABC; Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ; Fouad Ajami, Hoover...
April 7, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Prof. Fouad Ajami and author Robert Baer discuss the state of the civil war in Libya...
March 28, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
President Obama defended American involvement in the coalition effort in a nationally televised address...
March 25, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Prof. Fouad Ajami speaks with CNN's Sanjay Gupta about the protests and calls for reform in Syria...
March 25, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Prof. Fouad Ajami and CNN's Ivan Watson discuss Egypt's transition away from decades of rule by the Mubarak regime...
March 23, 2011 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
On the war in Libya and the right way for the U.S. to handle this conflict...
March 23, 2011 | CNN American Morning
Coalition airstrikes in Libya continue on the fifth day of Operation Odyssey Dawn...
March 22, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
David Gergen and Prof. Fouad Ajami discuss what else the international community might do to aid the Libyan opposition...
March 18, 2011 | AC360 Blog (CNN.com)
Anderson Cooper, Jill Dougherty, Prof. Fouad Ajami, and author Robert Baer discuss the situation in Libya...
March 16, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
After weeks of anti-government protests, Prof. Fouad Ajami reflects on the popular movements in Libya and Bahrain...
February 2, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
International studies professor Fouad Ajami talks about how Egyptian President Mubarak is handling the uprising...
March 10, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Prof. Fouad Ajami and Gen. Wesley Clark discuss the challenges and consequences of a no-fly zone over Libya...
March 7, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Prof. Fouad Ajami tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that the Libyan opposition forces want and need international help...
March 7, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper speaks with Prof. Fouad Ajami and Lisa Anderson, Pres. of the Amer. Univ. in Cairo...
March 1, 2011 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
On the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and how the U.S. should respond...
February 28, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with author and ex-CIA officer Robert Baer and Prof. Fouad Ajami about Libya...
February 28, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper speaks with Paul Wolfowitz, Gen. Wesley Clark, and Prof. Fouad Ajami about the opposition in Libya...
February 23, 2011 | Engaging Democracy (Sam Adams Alliance)
This week was Presidents Day, so we thought: what better way to celebrate the holiday than a conversation about President Obama and respect for history. Our guest is Fouad Ajami...
February 21, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with Prof. Fouad Ajami about the situation in Libya...
February 14, 2011 | Talk of the Nation (NPR)
The anti-Mubarak protestors' victory in Egypt captured the imaginations of millions of Americans. But Egypt's leadership remains in flux...
February 11, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with a panel of guests about what might be next for Egypt...
February 11, 2011 | Parker-Spitzer (CNN)
Scholar Fouad Ajami and former Asst. Sec. of State Jamie Rubin discuss the "most stunning event in modern Arab history..."
February 9, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper speaks to Prof. Fouad Ajami and CNN's Ivan Watson about the Egyptian protests...
February 9, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Keith Bradsher, NYT; Paul Ingrassia, NYT; Fouad Ajami, Hoover; Jim Yardley, NYT...
February 8, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Anderson Cooper speaks with David Gergen, Jill Dougherty, and Middle East expert Fouad Ajami about Egypt...
February 7, 2011 | Bloomberg Television
Fouad Ajami talks about the outlook for protests and politics in Egypt. He speaks with Matt Miller and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart"...
February 7, 2011 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
KT McFarland Hosts. Today on Defcon3, continuing coverage of the Middle East unrest, Egypt and a critical look at the Muslim Brotherhood...
February 5, 2011 | Journal Editorial Report (Fox News)
What role should U.S. play in crisis...?
February 3, 2011 | Parker-Spitzer (CNN)
Scholar Fouad Ajami comments on a report that the U.S. is discussing a plan for Egyptian President Mubarak to quit now...
February 2, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Kamran Bokhari, Stratfor.com; Michael Giglio, Newsweek International; Fouad Ajami, Hoover...
February 1, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Egyptian President Mubarak announces he won't run for re-election, but is that enough for the people of Egypt...?
January 31, 2011 | Charlie Rose
Update on Egypt with Tarek Masoud of Harvard Kennedy School, Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University [and the Hoover Institution], Emad Shahin, Anthony Shadid of 'The New York Times' & Neil MacFarquhar of 'The New York Times'...
January 31, 2011 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
On the history behind Egypt's unrest and what the end result will be for this crucial state in the Arab world...
January 31, 2011 | Bloomberg Television
Fouad Ajami talks about the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt and the outlook for that country's political future and relationship with the U.S...
January 31, 2011 | Minnesota Public Radio
Opposition groups in Egypt are continuing to call for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarek as the army tries to maintain order in the country. Guest: Fouad Ajami...
January 31, 2011 | CNN
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to Professor Fouad Ajami about the future of Egypt and what role the U.S. should play...
January 29, 2011 | Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses what the U.S. response should be to the turmoil in Egypt, a long-time ally...
January 18, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Mary O'Grady, WSJ; Ravi Somaiya, Newsweek; Bob Zimmerman, BehindTheBlack.com; Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution...
December 15, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com; Bruce Bechtol, Angelo State; Tom Keene, Bloomberg; Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution; John Bolton, AEI...
December 9, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Dan Henninger, WSJ; Michael Slackman, The New York Times; Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution...
November 30, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Charles Blahous, Hudson Institute [and Hoover Institution]; John Fund, WSJ; Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution; Brian Sussman, Hot Talk 560 KSFO...
November 30, 2010 | Secure Freedom Radio
On today’s show Frank is joined for three segments by the director of the Middle East Studies Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Fouad Ajami...
November 14, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter blog, Fouad Ajami, Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy review...
November 8, 2010 | DEFCON-3 with KT McFarland (FoxNews.com)
Today on Defcon3: The President’s focus: what to do about the Afghanistan war and what the next wave of terrorist attacks will mean for us at home...
November 3, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Bret Stephens, WSJ; Todd Lindberg, Hoover Institution; Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution; Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index...
October 26, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Bill McGurn, WSJ; Steven Erlanger, NYT; Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution. Ajami's segment begins at 17:38.
September 9, 2010 | Secure Freedom Radio
Hoover Institution’s sage of the age and Johns Hopkins University Professor, Fouad Ajami puts America’s actions in Iraq into proper strategic and historical context...
August 26, 2010 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
Fouad Ajami: A masterclass interview on Middle East affairs and the Ground Zero mosque...
August 12, 2010 | KTTH
“The Obsolescence of Barack Obama” Dr. Fouad Ajami is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
August 12, 2010 | Secure Freedom Radio
Today on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, Frank opens up with commentary about the promotion of Islam from the White House in recent press statements...
June 22, 2010 | Bill Bennett's Morning In America
On how Pres. Obama and the U.S. are perceived by the rest of the world and how are international relations have worked out so far...
May 14, 2010 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami discusses the nature of the threat of radical Islam...
May 13, 2010 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami comments on the all new Israel-U.S. divide...
May 11, 2010 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami explains why he has “dark thoughts” about the war in Afghanistan...
May 10, 2010 | Uncommon Knowledge
Fouad Ajami says history will be immensely kind to George W. Bush and his decision to go to war in Iraq...
April 13, 2010 | Secure Freedom Radio
Dr. Fouad Ajami gives his thoughts about the Obama Doctrine, and the current situation in the Middle East more generally.
April 12, 2010 | Talk Radio News Service
Senior Fellow Fouad Ajami talks to John McCaslin about the situation in Afghanistan.
May 31, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
How a people conquered fear to challenge a despot of unspeakable cruelty...
December 2, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Europe is paying for the pride of Greece—and for the legacy of the Classical Age...
September 9, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Ten years after the attacks, we are still in a drawn-out, twilight war with Islamism...
December 1, 2010 | Policy Review
The past, present, and future of a testy but necessary relationship...
January 5, 2010 | KQED
A number of foreign embassies in Yemen have closed temporarily after threats from a regional wing of al-Qaida. . . .
September 1, 2009 | Washington Times
In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show "America's Morning News" - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - here's what several of Monday's guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin:...
