In his long career as the preeminent scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis was consulted by numerous heads of state and high-ranking officials, including from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, the Israeli prime ministers Golda Meir, Yitzḥak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Moammar Ghaddafi, and, most famously, Dick Cheney. Martin Kramer describes and analyzes many of these encounters, and reflects on the relationship between scholarship and the wielding of political power. (Video, 1 hour.)
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