was a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Board of Advisors of the journal Foreign Affairs. Ajami was a founding member of ASMEA (The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa) and was Vice Chairman of its academic council. Ajami also sat on the editorial board of Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the Middle East Forum think tank. He was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the cochair of their Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. References External links Fouad Ajami at Johns Hopkins SAIS Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Iraq and the Arabs' Future, 2003 Fouad Ajami speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on July 11, 2006 about his book, The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, The Arabs and The Iraqis in Iraq Iraq in the Balance WSJ op-ed by Ajami, April 11, 2007 "A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy", op-ed by Ajami, Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2009 Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University on Charlie Rose Remembering Fouad Ajami By Francis A. Boyle Ajami's articles on Foreign Affairs 1945 births 2014 deaths MacArthur Fellows Lebanese emigrants to the United States Lebanese people of Iranian descent University of Washington alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Princeton University faculty Middle Eastern studies in the United States Middle East Forum American people of Iranian descent American people of Arab descent Eastern Oregon University alumni National Humanities Medal recipients Hoover Institution people People from Nabatieh District