The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq

“Few have the requisite ability and courage to accurately diagnose the Arab world’s myriad political maladies…. Fouad Ajami, who has performed the task admirably on more than one occasion, does not disappoint with The Foreigner’s Gift.” – Rayyan al-Sharaf, San Francisco Chronicle “The Foreigner’s Gift stands in the tradition of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul…. A wide-ranging, brilliant investigation of Iraq and the Arab world since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Elegantly, Ajami interweaves history, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion with a sensitive grasp of politics in Iraq and the United States. A masterpiece.” – Josef Joffe, Publisher-editor of Die Zeit “Ajami draws on a variety of contemporary texts, mostly unknown or inaccessible to Western authors…. The result, based on six extended visits to Iraq and a lifetime of travel and experience, is the best and most idiosyncratic recent treatment of the American presence there. A series of firsthand portraits, often brilliantly subtle, of some fascinating players in contemporary Iraq.” – Victor Davis Hanson, Commentary

Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is a contributing editor to” U.S. News & World Report” and a consultant to CBS News on Middle Eastern affairs. Ajami is a frequent contributor to “Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, ” and other periodicals and outlets worldwide. Born in Lebanon and raised in Beirut, he is based in New York City.

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