He ain’t heavy, he’s my Muslim Brother
Martin Kramer delivered these remarks on September 24, on a panel entitled “Islam, Islamism, and U.S. Foreign Policy.” He shared the podium with the French Arabist Gilles Kepel, author of a new book,...
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He walks with the Islamists, talks with the Islamists
If I consulted with quadrupeds Think what fun we’d have asking over crocodiles for tea! Or maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses and sea lions What a lovely place the world would be! —Bobby...
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The Arab Nation of Shakib Arslan
This is Martin Kramer’s review of William L. Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, published in Middle Eastern Studies, October 1987, pp. 529-33....
View ArticleWorst-case scenario in Egypt
A Muslim Brother, Muhammad Morsi, has entered Egypt’s presidential palace and taken his seat in the chair once occupied by Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. This is a stunning development—a slow-motion...
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The NIC of time
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has just published its fifth long-term prognostication, Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds. This is an officially sponsored guessing game, but much of what...
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Know Thy Enemy (or an Approximation Thereof)
On Monday, January 22, I gave this address to the Herzliya Conference, an annual Israeli gathering for high-level soul-searching. The title of the panel (not of my choosing): “Knowing Thy Enemy:...
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Geopolitics of the Jews
Over the winter, I gave a short address to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at a meeting in Jerusalem. I took the assignment seriously, and offered these thoughts,...
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Dr. Esposito and the seven-percent solution
“Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” —Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit Professor John L. Esposito runs a slick operation at Georgetown with $20 million of funding from Saudi...
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What do the financial crisis and U.S. Middle East policy have in common?
Behind the financial crisis was a well-practiced mechanism for concealing risk. The risk was there, and it was constantly growing, but it could be disguised, repackaged and renamed, so that in the end...
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Political Islam in Syria
This is an excerpt of the section on Syria from my 1980 monograph Political Islam (pp. 66-70). Syria, once an example of post-colonial instability, has now known nearly a decade of continuous rule by...
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Bernard Lewis and the return of Islam
Yesterday was the 100th birthday of Bernard Lewis, preeminent historian of the Middle East and Islam. Today, Mosaic Magazine has published my essay for the occasion. I take as my point of departure an...
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