Background
Martin Kramer, full named as Martin Seth Kramer, was born on September 9, 1954, Washington, D. C., United States. He is a son of Alvin Kramer, a businessman, and Anita Joan Kramer (maiden name Seidel), homemaker.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
Blair Hall of Princeton University where Martin Kramer received his Bachelor of Arts, his second Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
The Library of Columbia University where Martin Kramer earned his first Master of Arts degree in history.
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Social Sciences Building of Tel Aviv University where Martin Kramer studied from 1971 to 1973.
(Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival provides an alternativ...)
Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival provides an alternative view of a century of Middle Eastern history
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412807670/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(The book explores Bernard Lewis's premise about Jewish sc...)
The book explores Bernard Lewis's premise about Jewish scholars in ten studies prepared in honor of his eightieth birthday
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Discovery-Islam-Studies-Bernard/dp/9652240400/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(In this iconoclastic exposé, Martin Kramer surveys the ru...)
In this iconoclastic exposé, Martin Kramer surveys the ruins of Middle Eastern studies, to ask how and why they went wrong
https://www.amazon.com/Ivory-Towers-Sand-Washington-Institute/dp/0944029493/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(In the book, historian and political analyst Martin Krame...)
In the book, historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public’s understanding of the Middle East
https://www.amazon.com/War-Error-Israel-Islam-Middle/dp/1412864992/?tag=2022091-20
2016
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researcher humanities educator
Martin Kramer, full named as Martin Seth Kramer, was born on September 9, 1954, Washington, D. C., United States. He is a son of Alvin Kramer, a businessman, and Anita Joan Kramer (maiden name Seidel), homemaker.
Martin Kramer started his undergraduate studies of Middle East under Itamar Rabinovich at Tel Aviv University.
Then, he pursued his education at Princeton University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies in 1975. Among his teachers at the institution were Fouad Ajami, L. Carl Brown, Charles Issawi, and Bernard Lewis.
The first Master of Arts degree in history from Columbia University was followed by the second one the next year from his alma mater.
In 1981, Martin Kramer graduated from the University with a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Martin Kramer started his career at Tel Aviv University which he joined in 1981 as a research associate at Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Three years later, he became a visiting professor at Cornell University, Ithaca. From 1990 to 1991, he occupied the same post at the University of Chicago, and then from 1994 to 1995 at Georgetown University.
By the middle 1990s, Kramer was appointed the director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He worked in that capacity for eleven years. In 2007, he served a senior policy adviser on the Middle East to the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign.
Martin Kramer has also taught as a visiting professor at Brandeis University and the Johns Hopkins University, and as a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and Harvard University's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2013, he founded Shalem College in Jerusalem where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East nowadays.
As an author, Martin Kramer has written several books, including ‘Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East’, ‘Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America’, and one of the recent works ‘The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East’. He has also edited several books on the Middle East and contributed many articles and reviews to professional journals.
(In the book, historian and political analyst Martin Krame...)
2016(The book explores Bernard Lewis's premise about Jewish sc...)
1999(In this iconoclastic exposé, Martin Kramer surveys the ru...)
2001(Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival provides an alternativ...)
1996After the tragedy of 9/11, Martin Kramer was among the first advocates of taking aggressive military action against Saddam Hussein considering him as a threat to the entire Middle East. Nevertheless, he stood against the consideration of the United States involvement to the war in October 2002 as the effort to promote an eventual democracy process in the Arab world.
Later, on February 2010, Kramer was criticized for his statements about the necessity to abolish the Western aid to Palestinian refugees in Gaza as means of depressing population growth among Palestinians in order to “crack the culture of martyrdom”. The statements were considered by some critics as genocidal when actually they weren’t.
Martin Kramer married a physical therapist Sandra Adine Jacobs on August 26, 1978. The family produced three children named Anat Jean, Keren Yael, and Adam Benjamin.