About the Author

Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri professor in Middle East Studies and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

The questions Ajami raises are likely to remain central; he is challenging some of the fundamental assumptions with which many Arab and Western students of Arab history and politics have worked in recent decades. - Itamar Rabinovich (New Republic) The Vanished Imam offers much more than a utilitarian account of recent developments in Lebanon. It takes the raw stuff of daily politics and turns it into a classic account of human achievement and strife. The details are localbut Mr. Ajami endows the story with a universal significance. His tale of the stranger who transforms a people and thenwhen his work is donereenacts its most sacred dramahas the literary power of a masterpiece. - Daniel Pipes (Wall Street Journal)