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Fouad Ajami
Lebanese–American academic (1945 – 2014)
Fouad A. Ajami (Arabic: فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a Lebanese-born American professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues.
He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Ajami was an outspoken supporter of the Bush Doctrine and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which he believed to have been a "noble war" and a "gift" to the people of Iraq.[1]
Early life and education
Ajami was born in Arnoun, a rocky hamlet in the south of Lebanon into a Shia Muslim family.
His Shia great-grandfather had immigrated to Arnoun from Tabriz, Iran in the 1850s.[2][3] In Arabic, the word "Ajam" means "non-Arab" or "non-Arabic-speaker"; specifically in this context, it means "Persian" or "Persian-speaker."[2][4] Ajami arrived in the United States in the fall of 1963, just before he turned 18.
He did some of his undergraduate work at Eastern Oregon State