ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Amatzia Baram

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Senior Fellow
Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program

In Residence: July 2003 - June 2004

Project Focus

State-Mosque Relations in Iraq, 1968–2003

Areas of Specialization

Middle East • Iraq • Political Islam • Civil-Military Relations • Territorial and Low-Intensity Conflict • Civil Society

Foreign Languages: Hebrew, Arabic

Contact: Office of Congressional and Public Affairs

Background

Amatzia Baram is professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is a prolific author and editor of several books and dozens of scholarly articles on Saddam Hussein and Iraqi politics and history. He testified about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction in September 2002 before the House Committee on Government Reform, and has consulted widely about Iraq with senior U.S. administration officials. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, St. Antony's College (Oxford), and Hebrew University's School for Advanced Studies. Baram directed the Jewish-Arab Center and the Gustav Heinemann Middle East Institute at the University of Haifa from 1999 to 2002. He received his Ph.D. from the department of the history of Islamic countries at Hebrew University.

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