Mr. Ajami is the Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, a position he has held since 1980.
He has been since 1989 a contributing editor of U.S. News & World Report for which he has written on American foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics and contemporary history. Mr. Ajami is the author of numerous books including: The Arab Predicament, The Vanished Imam, Beirut : The City of Regrets, The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey, andThe Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs and the Iraqis in Iraq. In 1982, he was granted the five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship. In 2006 he received the Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement.
In November 2006 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. He is a member of the board of advisers of Foreign Affairs.He is based in New York, NY.