Webinar SeriesWelcome to the ASMEA Webinar Series. Throughout the year we will host discussions with seasoned scholars and practitioners on a variety of topics affecting the Middle East and Africa. These webinars are free and open to the public. Registration is required. Attendees who require a "Certificate of Attendance" can contact Emily Lucas at [email protected] after the event. View past webinars here. Upcoming Webinar - Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in AmericaJoin ASMEA and Dr. Martin Kramer on September 16 at 11:00 AM (ET) for the webinar Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Looking at the field today, nearly 25 years after its publication, has the field improved or gotten worse? Register Here
An authority on the history and politics of the Middle East, Dr. Kramer earned his doctorate from Princeton University under the supervision of Bernard Lewis. Since then, he has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He was also the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s first liberal arts college, and served as the first chair of its Middle East and Islamic studies program. Dr. Kramer has been a visiting professor or fellow at Brandeis, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Pepperdine universities and the Wilson Center. |
Dr. Martin Kramer is The Washington Institute’s Walter P. Stern Fellow and author of one of its most widely read monographs,