Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and editor of its TEL AVIV NOTES, an update on Middle Eastern developments. He is the author of The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945–1954 (1993), Palestinian and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and Intifadat al-Aqsa (PDF) (2002), and articles on regional Arab politics and Maghreb affairs; coeditor of Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East (1997), editor (1995–2000) of the Center's annual yearbook, Middle East Contemporary Survey; Co-editor of The Camp David Summit — What Went Wrong? (2005); and co-editor of The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion and Politics (Univ. of Florida Press, 2007). His most recent book is titled, The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States (University of Texas Press, May 2011).
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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