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#PeerTalks with Professor Amatzia Baram on " The Present Challenges of Iraq "

Dr. Baram is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Middle East Studies, University of Haifa. In 1986 He was awarded the Ph.D. degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a dissertation on Ba’thi Iraq. Since then, Dr. Baram has been teaching at the Universities of Jerusalem, Haifa, and Georgetown.  Dr. Baram served as a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, resident senior fellow three times at the Woodrow Wilson Center, twice at the US Institute of Peace, once at the Brookings Institute, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Center in Bellagio. In 2009 he lectured to US officers at Fort Leavenworth. At the University of Haifa, he served as Chairman of the Department of Middle East History, Director of the Jewish-Arab Center and the Institute for Middle East Studies, founder and Head of the Center for Iraq Studies, and co-founder and Head of the Ezri Center. Since 1986 Baram has been occasionally advising the US government during the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations about Iraq and the Gulf. His book Saddam Husayn and Islam 1968-2003 (WWC and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) used extensively Saddam’s secret personal archive 1979-2003.

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