Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer is an analyst working at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, since 2002. He is also in a senior position at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Centre,since 2006. He has also been affiliated with the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, since 2007[1]
He is the co-convener of Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), since 2007. He is also been an Administrator of The Washington Institute Book Prize, since 2008[2]
Formerly he worked at the Moshe Dayan Centre for 25 years eventually becoming director.[3]
Publications
- Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 250 pp.
- Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996; paperback, 2008. 297 pp.
- Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Washington: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001. 137 pp.
- Protest and Revolution in Shi’i Islam. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 1985; second printing, 1987. 156 pp. [in Hebrew].
- Shi‘ism, Resistance, and Revolution. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1987. 324 pp. Access via Questia (full text).
- Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991. 168 pp.
- The Islamism Debate (Dayan Center Papers, no. 120). Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1997. 178 pp.
- The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis. Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999. 311 pp.
Comments about aid to Palestinians
At the Tenth Annual Herzliya Conference in 2010 Kramer gave a short speech in which he linked population growth and especially a large proportion of young men in a society with radicalization and violent extremism, saying this could be countered through population control measures and would "happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status." [4] Critics branded this "genocidal", since the definition of genocide in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide includes measures “intended to prevent births within” a specific “national, ethnic, racial or religious group.”[5] The directors of the Weatherhead Center at Harvard dismissed these accusations as "baseless".[6]
Affiliations
- Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee [7]
- Middle East Review of International Affairs (based at IDC), editorial board
- International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, conference participant [8]
Notes
- ↑ Martin Kramer on The Middle East, www.martinkramer.org, Personal CV, Accessed 01-March-2009
- ↑ Martin Kramer on The Middle East, www.martinkramer.org, Personal CV, Accessed 01-March-2009
- ↑ Elliot Jager,A Progressive First From a Conservative Think Tank, Jerusalem Post, accessed June 14, 2012
- ↑ Superfluous Young Men, MartinKramer.org, accessed June 14 2012
- ↑ Harvard Fellow Calls For Genocidal Measures to Curb Palestinian Births, Electronic Intifada, accessed June 14 2012
- ↑ WCFIA at Harvard: accusations are baseless, MartinKramer.org, accessed June 14 2012
- ↑ Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009
- ↑ Text of Conference Invite Email
