Martin Kramer holds his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Princeton University. He has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre in Washington.

He is a contributing editor of the Jerusalem Report and a member of the advisory board of the Middle East Quarterly. His publications include : Islam Assembled; Shi'ism, Resistance and Revolution; Middle Eastern Lives; The Islamism Debate; Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival.

Martin Kramer is the Director of the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. His fields of interest are contemporary Islam and modern Arab politics.

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