Monday, September 30, 2013

What the Arab World Doest Understand about the West and Why the Arabs Act Against the West

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-09-14/opinions/35494313_1_arab-world-arab-society-arab-countries

Dr. Fouad Ajami is a leading American Arab scholar and has been for the past 30 years and he is one of most prolific modern day American scholars writing on Middle Eastern affairs. 

He hails from John Hopkins University and has been writing about the Westernization of the Arab culture for over three decades.  His writings, numerous articles and books about the Middle and our foreign policy are a primer and necessary ingredient for any western policy maker, student or interested person who wants to understand better the Arab world and how it interfaces within the larger international community today and why the Arab culture, like so many others are actually confronting their own psychological hurdles in dealing with the modernization around the entire world, that largely is a western construct.

Its been an ongoing serious and continuing important if not the most important theme of Ajami's writings and again reading his commentaries, even if I don't necessarily agree where he writes from today, much of political commentary, ...at the conservative Hoover Foundation...nonetheless, his is a singular important voice of gaining a true and genuine and deeper understanding of the Arab culture itself....given his academic pedigree and his own Arab background ...from my own youthful college days, his books, his voice and his writings and the many journals he has contributed to for decades have not only have deepened and broadened my own understanding of this vital region of the world, but it also has given at least this student of foreign affairs, a much deeper, better and truly genuine understanding of why the Middle East is what it is a culture apart and what makes the West's relationship to it, so vital and how and why it remains among the most important issues in our world today.