Gerald Robbins, Senior Fellow, specializes in analyzing Turkey, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia. He was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to study rural-urban migration at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, and holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University.
Robbins has used his Turkish language skills to report from Ankara and Istanbul for The Weekly Standard, the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly and the Washington Times. He served as Program Director for Freedom House in Baku, Azerbaijan during the mid 1990's, where he managed post-Soviet political and economic programs.
Robbins frequently lectures at universities and foreign policy institutes. He authored Azerbaijan as part of Mason Crest/FPRI’s “The Growth and Influence of Islam” series. His current focus is studying European efforts to further integrate its growing Muslim and non-EU communities.
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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